While polls show that a majority of UCP supporters would vote for Alberta’s separation from Canada, the majority of Alberta voters would vote to remain in Canada. The NDP will undoubtably try to use ...

Former Catholic school trustee and past UCP candidate Pamela Rath has launched her campaign for the UCP nomination in Calgary-Beddington. The Calgary-Beddington riding is currently represented by NDP ...

Campbell will face United Conservative Party candidate Mike Derry, who surprised many political watchers last week when he defeated City Councillor Dan McLean in the party’s nom ...

Nick Taylor (centre) with Alberta Liberal MLAs Grant Mitchell (left) and Bettie Hewes (right) in 1986. He was never Premier of Alberta or even Leader of the Official Opposition, but Nick Taylor was a ...

The winners of the 1998 Calgary Board of Education election (Calgary Herald, Oct. 16, 1998) The series was published in the weeks after Smith won the Wildrose Alliance Party leadership in 2009. Here ...

Will any MLAs lose their jobs because of these direct democracy campaigns? (Probably not) It was always going to be really hard. Two of the 26 recall campaigns launched against United Conservative ...

Before Glubish’s motion and the UCP’s pre-mature press release, MLAs on the committee heard from former Progressive Conservative MLA Thomas Lukaszuk, who headed last year’s successful Forever Canadian ...

The introduction of municipal political parties in Calgary and Edmonton has generated a lot of confusion and consternation in this election but lost in the noise of the big city debate is that the ...

As the Water Not Coal citizen initiative enters its final week, country music singer-songwriter and rancher Corb Lund joined the Daveberta Podcast to explain why it’s important for Albertans to sign ...

Social Credit’s recall law lasted 18 months on the books before it was repealed A recent proliferation of MLA recall campaigns has fuelled speculation that Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative ...

Kelly Hopper is challenging Elan Harper for the federal Conservative Party nomination in Calgary Confederation. Hopper ran for the Conservative nomination in the neighbouring Calgary Signal Hill in ...