Rod Sykes, mayor of Calgary from 1969 to 1977, reported dead at 95
Rod Sykes, mayor of Calgary from 1969 to 1977, is reported to have died in the past few days. During his three consecutive terms in office, James Rodney Winter Sykes…
Alberta Politics
Naheed Nenshi will run in the by-election to replace Rachel Notley as MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona
The Alberta NDP’s worst-kept secret has now been confirmed: Party Leader Naheed Nenshi will run in the by-election to replace former leader and premier Rachel Notley as MLA for the…
Alberta cabinet ministers Mikey Amery and Mike Ellis to ‘strengthen cross-border collaboration’ on Lone Star State junket
Give the United Conservative Party Government its due – it didn’t publish a really embarrassing news release insulting the intelligence of Albertans until the second day of 2025. Granted, Premier…
It’s 2025 and John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave, but Luigi marches on!
Happy New Year, I guess. This year may not turn out to be much better than the last one, but I do have a question for the first day of…
Despite the optimism of its spokespeople, big Trump tariffs would spell a bleak future for Alberta’s beef industry
Despite a few squawks about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s promised 25-per-cent tariff on All Things Canadian, at least in its public statements Alberta’s cattle industry has been surprisingly…
Another day, another UCP announcement; another year of AlbertaPolitics.ca … its 18th, as a matter of fact!
This blog marks the beginning of its 18th year of publication today. That, as I observed last year on this date, makes it something of an institution in Alberta political…
Edmonton NDP MP urges Trudeau Government to adopt her private member’s bill to make it harder for provinces to quit the CPP
Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson wants the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to adopt her private member’s bill, which would require the consent of at least two-thirds of the…
Chief Actuary’s report on UCP plan to raid Canada Pension Plan fund: Forget about getting 53%
Let’s cut right to the chase: What the analysis made public yesterday by the Chief Actuary of Canada shows is that if Alberta were to split from the Canada Pension…
Danielle Smith congratulates the loser of the Lethbridge-West by-election; family docs’ pay deal is finally done
Had the United Conservative Party’s John Middleton-Hope won Wednesday’s by-election in Lethbridge-West, one wonders if Health Minister Adriana LaGrange would have invited him along yesterday to help her make her…
Lethbridge-West by-election voters send NDP’s Rob Miyashiro to the Alberta Legislature
In a refreshing sign of intelligent life on the Great Plains of Alberta, voters in the Lethbridge-West by-election sent New Democrat Rob Miyashiro to the provincial Legislature in Edmonton yesterday.…
If Justin Trudeau takes a ‘walk in the snow,’ how will Alberta’s UCP ever fit up a replacement as nicely?
The Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa surely isn’t the only Canadian venue with more than a whiff of panic in the air these days. Consider the likely conversation in Premier…
Edmonton police commission member plans to work from Portugal; strangely, UCP minister has no problem with that
If only Andy Thompson had lived to see this day! Andrew Ernest Joseph Thompson, who ascended to the Great Legislature in the Sky in 2016, was the low-profile Canadian Senator…
Soon-to-retire Edmonton police chief and tireless copagandist to become Alberta’s chief bureaucop: premier
Dale McFee, chief of the Edmonton Police Service, will soon take over as Alberta’s chief bureaucop – pardon me, bureaucrat – Premier Danielle Smith announced yesterday, surprising absolutely no one.…
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier, announces her intention to quit as Edmonton-Strathcona MLA
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier and the woman who in 2015 broke the Progressive Conservative party’s seemingly unshakable grip on power in this province, has announced her full departure…
A week before crucial Lethbridge by-election, it’s still not clear what NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi stands for
Since Naheed Nenshi replaced Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP last June, the Opposition party appears to have gone from all tactics and no strategy to all strategy…
UCP travel update: Dubai TFW construction crew recruiting trip is off … for now
Busted by the Alberta local of the electrical workers’ union and a couple of federal NDP Members of Parliament, the United Conservative Party Government has put its plan to recruit…
UCP MLAs and ministers seem to be jetting all over the place these days – and taxpayers are picking up the tab
It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who…
Guest Post: Alberta’s UCP wants to pave paradise and put up an all-season resort
Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number…
During eventful fall session of the Alberta Legislature, UCP attacks the rights of citizens on several fronts
During this fall’s eventful session of the Alberta Legislature, the United Conservative Party Government attacked the rights of some vulnerable Albertans to medical treatment, undermined the right of all citizens…
Danielle Smith’s latest blatantly unconstitutional border patrol brainstorm is about owning the Libs
On its face, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s screwball scheme to create a provincial border patrol force intended to prevent Canadian citizens from crossing the U.S. border into Montana is blatantly…