Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at david.cournoyer@gmail.com.

UCP candidate Tara Sawyer won the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding with 61 percent, a drop of 14 points from the 2023 election, and most of that vote appears to have gone to the right-wing separatist ...

Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at david.cournoyer@gmail.com.

Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at david.cournoyer@gmail.com.

Canada’s next federal election is happening on April 28, 2025. Here is a list of candidates running for party nominations or nominated to run in the newly redistributed electoral districts for the ...

Ralph Klein I was born in Edmonton in 1983 and the first Premier I remember being aware of was Ralph Klein. Having grown up during the Klein-era, I have a different perspective of those years than ...

Fresh from her big victory in Alberta’s Gay-Straight Alliances debate, Edmonton-Centre Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman announced this morning that she has accepted the nominations to be a candidate for ...

The United Conservative Party government’s decision to unilaterally rescind a 1976 Coal Policy that protected large swaths of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains and Foothills from open-pit coal mining has hit ...

Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel looks a lot like a UCP re-election tour Alberta is getting a bad deal and it’s always Ottawa’s fault. That’s Premier Danielle Smith ’s key message in a 6 minute and ...

Nick Taylor is one of the people who inspire me to push for center left politics in North Rural Alberta. Part of the reason I was excited to run as a Alberta NDP candidate in Athabasca Barrhead ...

When the Legislative Assembly resumes for its fall sitting on Monday, there will be a new seating plan. Brian Jean A new Official Opposition United Conservative Caucus made up of twenty-two former ...

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