Viva Manitoba? Much news of latest Orange Wave fails to reach Alberta

Knee-Dips sweep back to power in Manitoba? Premier Greg Selinger, who was chosen to replace Gary Doer when he trotted off to serve Stephen Harper in Canada's bunker in Washington, handily re-elected? This isn't what we were told would happen!

Other than the CBC -- the turbulent national broadcaster the Alberta-centric federal Conservatives would love to break up or kill off -- there's never been all that much interest in other provinces' elections out here in oil-drenched Alberta.