It was clear the instant results from the first million votes counted in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s divisive separation referendum flooded in minutes after 11 o’clock last night that the…
On the day of the Calgary-Shaw by-election, a photo began to appear on social media of United Conservative Party candidate Mike Derry’s campaign manager, Craig Chandler, planting signs begging Conservatives…
Alberta premier explains it’s the middle of summer and you don’t have time for politics … seriously! Danielle Smith says there will be no by-election just yet to replace Rebecca…
Send ‘a strong signal that Canada works’ NDP Opposition leader urges PM Mark Carney in letter Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi called yesterday on Ottawa to step in and use the…
Four high-profile New Democrat MLAs, two from Edmonton and two from Calgary, will not seek re-election, the Opposition party in the Alberta Legislature said yesterday. Three of them – Calgary-Buffalo…
It takes a certain ingenuity for a crooked government to keep its scandals hidden. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your perspective – that’s a talent Danielle Smith and the…
When will the knives come out for Naheed Nenshi? The NDP is not the Conservatives, even the united ones out here in Alberta, and historically New Democrats have been more…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government isn’t even trying to fake it any more. They bulled ahead in the Legislature yesterday with a scheme to dump the report of the Electoral…
OK, people, with a provincial election expected next year, we are entering the season of polls and rumours of polls, and the results are so far, shall we say, murky.…
This is the third in a series of Daveberta Podcast episodes I’m calling Daveberta In Session. In these short episodes available to paid subscribers, I’ll sharing a few key things…
Challenging Danielle Smith at the Legislature to meeting King Charles III in London. It was a big week. This is the second in a series of Daveberta Podcast episodes I’m…
The Premier of Alberta often says that we are not ready for electric cars. She says that the technology is just not ready; and that electric cars don’t go far…
Happy New Year! Well, here we are, living through the final day of 2025, and most readers of this blog would agree that this has not been the most fabulous…
Better late than never, Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi finally effectively hammered the governing United Conservative Party’s policy hot mess at a news conference yesterday morning marking the end of the…
The Alberta NDP will not formally participate in the Forever Canadian petition drive. On Monday, I asked the Opposition Party how it expected to interact with former Progressive Conservative Deputy…
Now that Naheed Nenshi has been sworn in as an Alberta MLA, it looks like he is bringing an intelligence to the job that many will respect and some will…
The plan to resurrect the Progressive Conservative Party by former UCP MLAs Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair has the potential to have a dramatic impact on Alberta politics. The key…
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi mopped the floor with his opponents in the Edmonton-Strathcona by-election yesterday. Mr. Nenshi can now join his caucus in the Legislature with his head held…
With recent polling results giving many MLAs in the Alberta NDP’s substantial Opposition caucus the jitters, the by-election next Monday in Edmonton-Ellerslie is shaping up to be a significant test…
I’ve been writing these little meditations on the state of politics in Alberta now longer than it takes an infant to grow old enough to vote and in that time…
