Tens of thousands of Edmontonians packed the streets of downtown on Saturday for the first major festival event of the summer – Edmonton’s Pride Parade. Held the same day as the City Centre Market and the Al Fresco Block Party on 104 Street, our city’s downtown core into a vibrant and very fun day-long party. The Pride Parade that kicked off the day was also an opportunity for politicos of most stripes (no blue coloured political signs spotted) to fly their flags and have some fun celebrating Pride Week. Here are some photos of some of the politicos who joined in the festivities:
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Curious: did either of the Liberal leadership candidates sport any kind of Liberal branding? Everything I saw was solely personality branding and didn’t even use Liberal colours. Seemed odd…
Thanks for the comment, Joel. I did notice that. Laurie Blakeman’s banner was a purple “Laurie 4 Leader” and Raj Sherman’s signs promoted his website. I think it’s more than coincidental. I will have more on this in a post I am writing this week.
I think it’s pretty typical of leadership campaigns in all parties: they use their colours to differentiate themselves within the party.
That being said, stay tuned for Pride in Calgary – there will be lots of red. Kent Hehr’s made sure of that for at least three years now.
I look forward the upcoming piece Dave. It will no doubt be critical, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use it to improve our processes and refine our ideas.
What’s really gayer than the gay pride parade is the blatant pandering by these idiot fringe politicians.
@MattGrant your very diplomatic but pretending Daveberta is a neutral party is even more ridiculous than when he was a liberal.
What he writes will be Alberta Party propaganda, no more.
Flintsone Astaire, I don’t think Dave has ever pretended to be neutral, and I’m certainly not pretending he is. He’s an openly card-carrying member of a party – as am I. More than that, I think he exercises considerable leadership within the Alberta Party, whether it’s recognized or not.
And I’m not just trying to pump Dave’s tires – this blog’s a good place to read the mood of people who the ALP needs to be listening and speaking to. The reality is, there are few other forums where progressively-minded Albertans of a variety of stripes hash out ideas and messages. I’m looking forward to hearing what Dave has to say about the ALP of late, and I’m excited to read the comments.
Linda Duncan has posted several photographs on Facebook showing her participation in the parade.