The question is...will the Alberta government be missing in action, but still on the expense account?
Then Education Minister Ron Liepert spent $13,087.66 of our dollars to fly to Japan in November of 2007, supposedly to attend Worldskills 2007 and learn all he needed to know to host the competition in 2009 back home in Alberta.
His trip for the 4 day event was budgeted at $13,770.
As some might recall, Liepert was in Japan when the teachers pension settlement happened. Faster than Superman, Liepert was back in Alberta, front and centre, for the announcement on Novmeber 15th!
What puzzles is how Liepert managed to spend virtually all of the budgeted expenses even though he cut the trip short by half. $905.20 for meals for two, maybe three days? Mr. Liepert had better start watching his waist!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Tweedle Dum at The Sun
I used to do a cursery read of the Calgary Sun on a daily basis, much as I did of the Herald, Journal, Edmonson Sun the Post and the Globe to glean the political tidbits as well as the current events that might be forming said tidbits.
Unfortunately,the past few days I was forced to confront the self-serving ramblings published in the Calgary Sun.
I can usually let a lot roll offf of my back, but me-thinks that Bell has been on the bong. How else to describe his recent rants based on nothing more than an injured ego?
For one example see: http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Bell_Rick/2008/03/04/4901326-sun.php
then just keep clicking on the links at the bottom of the columns.
As to lower voter trunout, in spite of the billions of our dollars this government spends on internet technology, no where on line was an Alberta voter able to find out where they voted. That is because the Elections Alberta website could/would only tell you what electoral district you lived in, not where you voted. If you could actually navigate the site to find your "returning Officer" (should you know the term), these, for the most part appointed tories friends, who were appointed in December had not one single public website.
Such is the life in a banana republic, without the good weather!
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Unfortunately,the past few days I was forced to confront the self-serving ramblings published in the Calgary Sun.
I can usually let a lot roll offf of my back, but me-thinks that Bell has been on the bong. How else to describe his recent rants based on nothing more than an injured ego?
For one example see: http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Bell_Rick/2008/03/04/4901326-sun.php
then just keep clicking on the links at the bottom of the columns.
As to lower voter trunout, in spite of the billions of our dollars this government spends on internet technology, no where on line was an Alberta voter able to find out where they voted. That is because the Elections Alberta website could/would only tell you what electoral district you lived in, not where you voted. If you could actually navigate the site to find your "returning Officer" (should you know the term), these, for the most part appointed tories friends, who were appointed in December had not one single public website.
Such is the life in a banana republic, without the good weather!
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