UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says - Alberta Politics

The United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a fundamental m...

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UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says - Alberta Politics

The United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a fundamental m...

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Opinion: Alberta’s shameless attempt to scapegoat immigrants

Opponents of secession have been vocal, but where are the people standing up for newcomers to the province?

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‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation - Alberta Politics

According to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada yesterday as “Con...

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‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation - Alberta Politics

According to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada yesterday as “Con...

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As divisive separation vote nears, UCP suddenly changes voter list rules, hampering scrutineers - Alberta Politics

As Alberta careens toward a chaotic and divisive vote on separation seemingly drafted to discourage the United Conservative Party’s dominant separatist faction from trying to force Premier Danielle Sm...

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Even with no realistic scenario, ‘independent advisory panel’ couldn’t make Alberta separation look good - Alberta Politics

At the end of their exertions, even the reliable team of neoliberal apparatchiks assembled by Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite economist last June couldn’t come up with a “scenario” in which Alberta...

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Modest success of the Progressive Tory Party candidate in Calgary-Shaw may be bad omen for UCP - Alberta Politics

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 Conserv...

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NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest - Alberta Politics

Alberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the evening a...

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NDP wins Calgary-Shaw by-election in closely fought contest - Alberta Politics

Alberta NDP candidate Kyle Campbell won the Calgary-Shaw by-election last night, beating the United Conservative Party’s Mike Derry in a contest that looked too close for comfort most of the evening a...

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Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? - Alberta Politics

Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith for its de...

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Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw; voters there have an opportunity to spank the UPC – but will they? - Alberta Politics

Tomorrow is by-election day in Calgary-Shaw. Voters in that riding in the city’s far south will have an opportunity not just to spank the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith for its de...

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Despite UCP scheme to fuel AI data centres, there’s nothing wrong with Crown corporations - Alberta Politics

Admittedly, the revelation by The Narwhal yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is seriously pondering a scheme to create public corporations to build and operate pipelines to ...

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The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List - Alberta Politics

There’s a substantial and growing body of economic research that separation would be a catastrophe for Alberta and Albertans, especially working people. As economist Jim Stanford observed in his Aug. ...

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The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List - Alberta Politics

There’s a substantial and growing body of economic research that separation would be a catastrophe for Alberta and Albertans, especially working people. As economist Jim Stanford observed in his Aug. ...

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Blame Ottawa? Most of Alberta’s economic discontent has roots in policies cooked up right here at home - Alberta Politics

Conventional wisdom in Canadian political and media circles seems to be that Albertans are almost to a man and woman deeply discontented with their relationship with the rest of Canada. Yet recent pol...

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Blame Ottawa? Most of Alberta’s economic discontent has roots in policies cooked up right here at home - Alberta Politics

Conventional wisdom in Canadian political and media circles seems to be that Albertans are almost to a man and woman deeply discontented with their relationship with the rest of Canada. Yet recent pol...

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Separatist ‘transition plan’ is propaganda intended to create a sense of reassurance and inevitability - Alberta Politics

On Thursday, a mostly anonymous group of some 47 individuals identifying themselves as “the Alberta Transition Council” dropped a document they called “The Alberta Transition Plan, a Practical Analysi...

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Separatist ‘transition plan’ is propaganda intended to create a sense of reassurance and inevitability - Alberta Politics

On Thursday, a mostly anonymous group of some 47 individuals identifying themselves as “the Alberta Transition Council” dropped a document they called “The Alberta Transition Plan, a Practical Analysi...

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UCP slaps ‘punitive tax’ on solar panels, opening new front in its War on Renewable Energy - Alberta Politics

Never let it be said that the Alberta’s United Conservative Party government isn’t in favour of recycling stuff – at least as long as that can be used to create higher costs and more red tape to help ...

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Danielle Smith’s official message kept changing yesterday – what the heck was that about?  - Alberta Politics

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith marked the “Alberta Day” moment in time with a couple of significantly different official messages and an apocalyptic prophecy. Yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, an email...

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Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day!  - Alberta Politics

Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day! (Such as it is.)  No, you can’t sleep in. Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s lame celebration is a “recognized commemorative day.” So, no day o...

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Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day!  - Alberta Politics

Good morning, my fellow Albertans! Happy Alberta Day! (Such as it is.)  No, you can’t sleep in. Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s lame celebration is a “recognized commemorative day.” So, no day o...

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Impact of Meta AI data centre could add up to $460 a year to the typical Albertan’s electricity bill: Pembina Institute - Alberta Politics

Oddly, Alberta media seem to have had very little to say about the new analysis by the Pembina Institute that the $13-billion Artificial Intelligence data centre planned by Meta Platforms Inc. in Stur...

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Forget fighting Trump’s tariffs, just be ‘too friendly, kind and helpful to resist,’ Danielle Smith advises - Alberta Politics

Now seen from coast to coast as the weakest link in the national response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ugly tariff war on Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took to a podium in Grande Prairie ...

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It’s time to rename the Strait of Juan de Fuca ‘the Canadian Channel’ - Alberta Politics

With a few exceptions, most Canadians seem to agree that while a tariff war with the United States is far from ideal, the only sensible way to respond to bad-faith bargaining by the Trump Administrati...

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Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance - Alberta Politics

Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against Artificial Intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do? They’ve spent two years plan...

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A trade war with the U.S. may not be great, but the day after Labour Day 2026 is a great moment for it to start - Alberta Politics

If a country had to pick a moment to strike back with targeted countervailing tariffs at the Trump Administration’s habitual bad-faith trade bargaining, surely it would be difficult to imagine a bette...

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