If the ndp wins in alberta it will be interesting to see if the same scene plays out as it did in bc when the ndp came to power in the 1990's.Corporate head offices moved to calgary and homeless people from alberta moved to bc to get the higher welfare rates.The number of people on welfare grew sky high in bc in those years,and young people moved to alberta to find work...Just for the record..i'm not a radical right winger but a middle of the road type in politics.And that's what really happened..I advise the voters in alberta to be careful.

Grant , name anything that is 1990 like in the world , not much . Its 2015 so we need to stop looking back stop thinking in term of right and left and look at what people are say and MOST OF ALL DOING .

Albertans are waking up to the Cons rigid ideaology Corporate Welfare record Deficits agenda.

Under the Cons there is a serious structural deficit problem both in Alberta and Federally.

Despite the wealth of Tar Sands and record Oil Prices over a decade Alberta is in record Deficit.

Norway's model keeps 80% of the Oil revenues for it's Citizens unlike Alberta / Canada.

Norway has over a Trillion Dollars in Surplus reserves, Alberta and Canada have - dollars.

Stop the Corporate Welfare vote for anyone but Cons.

Hey Grant,
My neighbors and family were doing fine in the "90s" and early 2000's.
The liberals came in and my costs went up, my children's education quality plummeted. I had to move out of Van to make sure my kids could get a good education as private school wasn't an option.
I live on the sunshine coast and business are shutting down, retirees are moving in, families are moving out. At a large local chain store here on the coast, yesterday I asked why there is less stock on the shelves of memory cards (don't want to get too detailed, get the person in trouble) he told me sales are declining, hours are being cut back, demand is down and falling. I bet Pampers are being replaced with Depends.
There are empty storefronts, more every month.
The head offices I used to work for in the 90's and early 2000's are gone, bought out by foreign corps with head offices in the states, union mergers included.
I commute into Vancouver for work, when I moved here it was affordable, now it's increasingly not. If we had the kind of service Washington States Ferries provides we'd be laughing! The Bemberton/Seattle run goes 6:20 until 12:50 am, is a 60 minute run and is cheaper.
If the libs wanted to build this province we could have service like this to the Sunshine coast. Don't give me this bullshit about "subsidy" Then stop subsidizing roads, bridges, transit, and corporations.
To add insult to injury I can catch a ferry in the interior that is as long as our run, sails from 6:30am until 10:20pm, mostly on the hour, to an area that is serviced by a road and is absolutely free.
The icing on the cake is this past winter when there were avalanche problems with the road, it was running 24hrs/day.
My property value has declined 10%/year, renting in Vancouver is stupid, tried that last year, cost me dearly. I was in good shape financially 15 years ago, now at the age of 54 I'm screwed. I just signed a 30 yr mortgage and 2 days ago I was told by my main client not to expect much work from here on in. I could blather on, but in Alberta I hope they have the sense to boot out the right wing scumbags that have left their province broke instead of money in the bank like Norway.
Check out this link:
http://credbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Alberta_vs_Norway_infographi...

Rich are getting too rich and I'm sick of greedy fucking wankers fucking decent people to get ahead. Fuck them and good to see the NDP get into power in my home province.

Grant: That's not what happened at all. Corporate head offices (at least, those few that were in BC to begin with) did not move to Alberta. Alberta funnelled its least fortunate to BC, but that was more an indictment of Alberta's policies than of BC's. BC did well under the NDP, with more invested in essential services and infrastructure. All the Liberals have done is weaken the province in the name of limiting the province's ability to provide for its citizens.

(If you really want to go down the road of history, the better comparison would be Bob Rae's NDP in Ontario. Like the next Alberta government, they inherited a fiscal mess and a weakening economy – and the business community immediately went to work sabotaging their efforts. Companies laid off or fired staff not for sound economic reasons but to punish the province for having dared to elect a progressive party. The press used any excuse to attack the party, going so far as to turn Ontario's credit rating into a major issue at a time when it was better than that of any other province in the country. Even things that should have had the support of the most conservative commentators were criticized. And despite all of that, the NDP still managed to lead the province out of recession before the next election – something that was somehow ignored by every pundit or commentator during the campaign, so that people still think the province was in recession when Mike Harris began his reign of errors. _That_ is the fate that likely befalls an NDP government in Alberta: Petty vindictiveness and a dogged determination to make sure the people of Alberta never support anything but the most pandering of right-wing governments in future.)

"More than half of those between 25 and 34 years old plan to vote NDP."

Unfortunately less than half will show up to vote. However there might still be enough to give the NDP a minority government, although I think the right will most likely gang up then and we'll be in another election before you know it.

Let's get real. There's no way in hell an NDP government is going to win power in Alberta. Albertans who actually vote on election day (how many are there of them?) will be too brainwashed by decades of one-party government to dare pick pinkos and communists. These polls make for great stories but will turn out to have been just as meaningless as the ones taken before the last B.C. election.

Have at it Alberta but watch out for the right-wing. You are expected to play the baseball game by the right-wing rules or they will take their bat and ball and go home, so to speak. We have had a lot of experience in BC with the attitude of the right and the media they control. So get ready and turn to the private bloggers for your information. Over a period of time you will find the ones you can trust and maybe support. I've been saying for a long time, enough is enough of this wretched bunch.

I have to wonder if I'm just a paranoid conspiracy nut for thinking this: every time the NDP wins a vote in a province other than Saskatchewan or Manitoba (where they seemed to be left alone through much of the 70s and on) it seems like a machine is set in motion to bring them down. I'm talking about the unholy alliance of big business, big media, and yes, covert operatives from parts south who find lots of clever ways to manipulate and twist public opinion and create crises to limit them to 1-term rule. My own fevered imagination would have it that, in addition to private interests working overtime, there are operatives buried in government administrations and possibly within the party itself, tasked with seeing to it that these pesky Canadian socialists don't do any lasting harm to the oligarchy that has put itself so firmly in control of Everything. If this might have once been the case through the Reagan/Bush years, is it any less so under the Democrats? Am I nuts?