Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at [email protected].

With municipal elections happening in October, Edmonton mayoral race is taking shape and taking unexpected turns.

Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at [email protected].

Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at [email protected].

With Stampede season soon winding down in Calgary, attention of the political class will quickly turn from the lobbyist receptions, pancake flips, and oil industry cocktail parties to the land of real ...

With municipal elections happening in October, Edmonton mayoral race is taking shape and taking unexpected turns. A motion from Mayor Amarjeet Sohi to reaffirm some of the most controversial parts of ...

UCP candidate Tara Sawyer won the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding with 61 percent, a drop of 14 points from the 2023 election, and most of that vote appears to have gone to the right-wing separatist ...

Ralph Klein I was born in Edmonton in 1983 and the first Premier I remember being aware of was Ralph Klein. Having grown up during the Klein-era, I have a different perspective of those years than ...

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 ...

Is Premier Danielle Smith a separatist? Is the UCP a separatist party? The biggest difference between today’s Alberta separatist push and past efforts is that today’s most vocal separatists are ...

The United Conservative Party government’s decision to unilaterally rescind a 1976 Coal Policy that protected large swaths of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains and Foothills from open-pit coal mining has hit ...

When the Legislative Assembly resumes for its fall sitting on Monday, there will be a new seating plan. Brian Jean A new Official Opposition United Conservative Caucus made up of twenty-two former ...