If you’ve seen the website saying Edmonton Strathcona Member of Parliament Heather McPherson is considering running to lead the federal NDP and thought the wording seemed oddly ambivalent, there’s an…
The NDP get-together in Edmonton yesterday was billed as a leadership debate, the last one before voting commences today. In the event, though, it seemed more like a candidates’ mutual…
Well, farewell Rachel Notley. Ms. Notley’s official portrait is unveiled in the Alberta Legislature Building on Dec. 8, 2022 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Yesterday marked the real end of the…
Much – probably too much – is being made of the fact the Alberta NDP’s organizing efforts in Calgary have shifted the Opposition party’s centre of gravity from Edmonton to…
It was obvious the writing was on the wall when Gil McGowan summed up his pitch at Saturday’s NDP leadership forum: “If I don’t raise another $50,000 soon,” he told…
The Alberta NDP now has 85,144 members eligible to vote in the party’s leadership race, chief returning officer Amanda Freistadt said in a news release yesterday. Meanwhile, this morning, candidate…
Has Naheed Nenshi just had his reverse chicken salad moment? NDP leadership candidate Gil McGowan, who is president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). It was…
It’s Easter Sunday and the world is a mess. (Cue brief political interlude) Here in Alberta we’ll have an opportunity to improve things…if we don’t get derailed in the run…
Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi may have started his campaign to lead Alberta’s NDP with harsh words about Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, but he adopted a softer…
Rakhi Pancholi, one of the most credible candidates to lead the Alberta NDP, has jumped aboard the Nenshi juggernaut. NDP leadership candidate Naheed Nenshi, who is now definitely the front-runner…
Sarah Hoffman, one of the candidates to lead the Alberta NDP, boldly announced a climate change policy yesterday that tore a page right from the book of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.…
Rachel Notley was elected as an NDP MLA in 2008. She became the leader of the NDP in 2014 and will be stepping down as leader in 2024. She led…
As expected, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi has joined the contest to replace Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP, and his arrival yesterday with a slick video, a…
Today’s the day former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is widely expected to enter the race to lead the Alberta New Democratic Party. Rachel Notley and the other contenders in the…
After reflecting on Premier Danielle Smith’s recent words of chastisement, the bad boy of Alberta conservatism, David Parker, said in a tweet yesterday evening that he’s repented and “will not…
“We didn’t get everything right, but we governed with integrity, an ambitious agenda and an earnest desire to make life better for Albertans.”—Rachel Notley The first time I met Rachel…
You know that it could happen in your town. You just don’t expect that it will. I went to the Edmonton Eskimo game last night, and as I entered the…
There some pretty confused stuff on universality and means-testing during last night’s NDP leadership debate. Here are some thoughts that might help clear things up a bit. First, Singh’s attack…
The Denial of NikiToday has been an absolute horror show for NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. Not only did a group of Quebec activists and former MPs come out asking for…
The Denial of Niki Today has been an absolute horror show for NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. Not only did a group of Quebec activists and former MPs come out asking…
