By trying to ensure the boundaries of Alberta's 87 electoral districts are reviewed in an orderly and responsible way, the province's Electoral Boundaries Commission risks putting the bureaucratic cart before the democratic horse.

The commission, which by law must review provincial constituency boundaries with population changes in mind by Halloween this year, has scheduled 15 hearings and asked for written submissions from interested Albertans by Feb. 8.

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Devotees of the idea Alberta's right must unite gathered in Red Deer Saturday and came up with a plan to form a third conservative party.

A third right-wing party? … The fourth if you count the rebranded Alberta Party? Even more if you credit the ambitions of the rather unsavoury #Kudatah clowns venting their passionate intensity in the darker corners of the Internet?

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Get the coffee perking! Maybe the Legislative Building's modest cafeteria will introduce a Wild Rose Country Breakfast Special a couple of days a week.

Alberta's majority New Democratic Party government has prevailed as anticipated and MLAs will now have to start work at 9 a.m. … two days a week, and only when the Legislature is in session, but still an improvement in value for money for taxpayers and better accommodation of legislators with families, both of which ought to be encouraged.

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Alberta's new NDP Government too often sits passively by and lets other people, who are not its friends, frame important issues for it.

Needless to say, when the Wildrose Opposition, the Conservative rump in the Legislature or the usual suspects in the mainstream media tell the story, they're not going to spin it in a way that benefits the NDP program.

So this kind of docility has the potential to hurt our NDP Government if it doesn’t get fixed.