Northern Reflections: A Reliable Stooge
One of the reforms Michael Chong wants to implement is open riding nominations, free from the interference of party leaders. That proposition is currently being tested in Calgary West, where Rob...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: He’s in: Ron Liepert challenges Rob Anders...
TweetFormer provincial cabinet minister and MLA Ron Liepert officially announced in a statement this morning his intentions to seek the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the newly...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Battles in the ’Burbs: Independent St. Albert MP Brent...
Independent MP Brent Rathgeber with machine gun, looking as if he could use some closer supervision, takes aim at the CBC. (Joke.) And, yes, that is Jack Layton with the other one. Below: Teddy...
View ArticleThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Rob Anders … Wants To Resurrect What?
Apparently, Rob Anders thinks that we need to resurrect the old “Rape” laws. He wants anyone convicted of rape to serve a mandatory minimum of eight years in prison for a first offence and 10 years...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Gun-toting conservatives take aim at Macleod...
Tweet“Just say no-to-Barlow!” was the message broadcast to the 15,941 followers of the National Firearms Association Facebook page. The National Rifle Association‘s Canadian cousins hope to drag down...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Dumber than a bag of Anders: Have gun-slingin’ Cowtown MP’s...
The offending photo of MP Rob Anders and would-be MP Melissa Mathieson, which first turned up on a National Firearms Association Facebook page, then a political blog, then the mainstream media and has...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Illusion
Well he must be feeling pretty good these days. It must be his happy hour.Parliament is shutdown so he doesn't have to answer any questions about any of his many scandals.Or his foul voter suppression...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Harper endorses Rob Anders and more...
TweetWith Dave Hancock being sworn-in as the 15th Premier of Alberta and speculation running rampant about who will replace him in four to six months, I thought now would be a good opportunity to...
View ArticleThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Democracy, As Rob Anders Would Write It
Rob “Sleepy” Anders must be feeling the heat from having competition running against him for the nomination in Calgary Signal Hill. Yesterday, he threatened to sue Ron Liepert over claims that...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: He called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, now claims...
by: Obert Madondo Chances are you would never vote for Rob Anders even if you were a hard-core Conservative. The Calgary West MP is one of the most disagreeable politicians in Canada. In 2001, the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Rob Anders and the Shootout at the Con Corral
When I see two guys getting ready to fight each other, my usual instinct is to try to separate them before somebody gets hurt.In the best peacekeeping tradition of this country.Or whatever… But I have...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Conservatives race to the bottom in...
TweetWith the race for the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Signal Hill in less than 10 days, the Rob Anders campaign has broadcast a new robocall praising the incumbent MP for decreasing the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Rob Anders and the Ghastly Foulness of the Cons
I see that voters in the riding of Calgary Signal Hill will be deciding the fate today of the Con loon Rob Anders.And that his opponent believes that this time he can be beaten.Ron Liepert says it's a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Rob Anders loses by a nose in Signal Hill as Cowtown Cons make...
Lost by a nose … but what a nose! A 22-year-old Rob Anders in 1994, heckling an Oklahoma politician. Below: Calgary Signal Hill nomination victor Ron Liepert; Mr. Anders as he looks today. There was...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Rob Anders: The Con Loon Finally Bites the Dust
He tried every dirty trick in the book to try to win his nomination battle.He smeared his opponents as closet Liberals. He used misleading robocalls against them. He called on his rabid religious base...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Good riddance, Rob Anders
TweetIt finally happened. The man who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, insulted Canada’s veterans, and called for war against Russia, has suffered his first major defeat since he was first elected in...
View ArticleCalgary Grit: Vote Out Anders
It was Ron Liepert by a nose for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative nomination. “Secret Liberal” Ron Liepert has done what a mayor, cabinet minister, and premier failed to do – defeated Rob Anders....
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Conservatives spar for safe Alberta ridings
TweetWhile the epic battle between Rob Anders and Ron Liepert in Calgary-Signal Hill was entertaining to watch, preparation for the next federal election has sparked nomination contests in ridings...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Waiting in ambush for PC leadership candidate Ken Hughes: the...
Back in the day when Alberta Health Services was still full of promise, AHS board chair Ken Hughes, above left, got his instructions from health minister Ron Liepert, right. Mr. Hughes is now a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: With friends like these… How much did gun lovers’ aid hurt Rob...
Soon-to-be-former MP Rob Anders with would-be MP Melissa Mathieson. Did this photo help, or hurt, his unsuccessful candidacy? Below: Ron Liepert, the Conservative who beat Mr. Anders in the Calgary...
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