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TweetIt is pennies compared to the $1.8 million raised by Jim Prentice during the Progressive Conservative leadership race, but in the world of the Alberta NDP leadership contest, the money is flowing....
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Look who’s running in 2016: Alberta Election...
TweetWith the four provincial by-elections over, the focus will soon turn back to nominating candidates to stand in Alberta’s next general election. The next election is scheduled to be held sometime...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Tuesday candidate nomination update in Alberta
Alberta’s New Democrats demonstrated some organizational strength last weekend as close to 400 supporters packed the TransAlta Arts Barns to watch party leader Rachel Notley accept the nomination to be...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Federal Candidate Nomination Update in Alberta
Preparation for the 2015 federal election continues as parties nominate their candidates in Alberta’s 34 ridings. The Conservatives and Liberals have most of their candidates in place, with the New...
View ArticleIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 37: He’s Pope-tastic; cabbies go wild;...
Pope Francis made his North American debut this week, and he was boffo. The pontiff, who is not very popular with the right-wing of the Catholic church (which means he is doing something right) drew...
View ArticleIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 37: He’s Pope-tastic; cabbies go wild;...
Pope Francis made his North American debut this week, and he was boffo. The pontiff, who is not very popular with the right-wing of the Catholic church (which means he is doing something right) drew...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Anticipated court scrap between government and home...
PHOTOS: The school run by the Trinity Christian School Association in Cold Lake (photo from the group’s website). Below: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen, Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Three candidates drop out of Peace River UCP...
The number of candidates in the United Conservative Party nomination contest in the sprawling northwest district of Peace River has dropped from five to two. Lisa
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: UCP quashes giant bozo-erruption in the...
The United Conservative Party quashed a giant bozo-erruption in the making this week when the party asked S. Todd Beasley to withdraw his candidacy for
View ArticleAlberta Politics: UCP leader discovers there’s no affliction more persistent...
Jason Kenney’s mid-September sojourn to India with a couple of his United Conservative Party sidekicks was pure political theatre, likely aimed as much at the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Cuts & Critics: Expect fireworks in the Legislature, but no...
Alberta’s 24 NDP Opposition MLAs were sworn in yesterday and Opposition Leader Rachel Notley, not so long ago the province’s premier, named the MLAs who will fill her shadow cabinet portfolios....
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Nathan Cooper chosen as Legislative Speaker – so how about...
Now that Nathan Cooper has been chosen as Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, I wonder if the business of the Assembly will be getting under way at a more civilized hour, say 10 a.m., suitable for...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: More questions than answers in last week’s fallout from...
Eight Alberta United Conservative Party MLAs, five of them cabinet ministers, now admit they’ve been interviewed by the RCMP in the federal police force’s ongoing investigation into the curious goings...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Symbolic MLA pay cut set stage for attack on public...
Like neoliberals everywhere, Alberta’s Conservatives overrate the virtues of big business and undervalue those of democracy. This is not exactly news. This was a clear message yesterday from the vote...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 46: Best of Alberta Politics in 2019
With a provincial election, a change in government, a federal election, and much more in between, 2019 was a big year in Alberta politics. Tina Faiz and Natalie Pon join Dave Cournoyer on this episode...
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