Ha ha. Yes!
Campaign launched to make Stephen Colbert premier of Alberta and rename province "Colberta"
By Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald September 10, 2009
CALGARY - Alberta has never been shy about launching political movements. We gave birth to Social Credit. We founded the Reform party. We planted the seeds that have became the budding Wild Rose party.
All of that may have only been the prelude for the rise of the Colberta Nation.
In the world according to Colberta.com, it would be out with Ed Stelmach, Norman Kwong and all things French (Leduc would become The Duc), and in with Stephen Colbert, he of Comedy Central faux-Fox News fame, who would become a kind of non-aligned provincial leader for life.
“It is time for The Colbert Nation to rise up and request . . . no, demand, that the province of Alberta be turned over to the leadership of Colbert, who can rule the new state of Colberta with an iron fist, an unyielding gut, and balls of steel,” says the website, which also includes a number of Colb-mandments (Article Five: “Nickelback has got to go. We hear Saskatchewan may be interested.”)
The Colberta Nation, at this stage of the game, is actually a one-man movement: 23-year-old aspiring writer Dan Zinman, who created it by himself, but hopes, in the tradition of a lot of 21st century political visionaries, to spread his Colberta dream via Twitter.
So far, Zinman has been pretty low-key on the Colberta nation-building, contacting only a few select media outlets, in addition to every Member of Parliament and whoever discovers it online (at
www.colberta.com).
He is holding off on contacting Colbert himself until he has some actual Albertans behind his scheme. You see, there’s one catch: Zinman is from Toronto. He has never actually been to Alberta.
“One thing led to another, and now the Twitter page is starting to pick up some steam,” says Zinman. “A lot of people seem to be responding from Calgary and Edmonton and even Lethbridge, Medicine Hat. There’s some buzz around. People like it. It’s starting to get around.”
Is he concerned we might not welcome another Eastern do-gooder trying to tell us how to run our provincial business?
“Well, I do worry about that somewhat, yes,” Zinman says. “And if it is any consolation, I am something of a Flames fan. (The) Leafs come first of course, but when it comes to the western conference, I take them.”
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, I went to the open house for the new U of C Veterinarian School's Skills Clinic. Very impressive building BTW. One of the peopel said that they would be working in conjunction with the City to offer spay/neutering services. I wonder if that will be tied in to this announcement in some way? Makes sense to me.
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