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

With municipal elections happening in October, Edmonton mayoral race is taking shape and taking unexpected turns.

With Stampede season soon winding down in Calgary, attention of the political class will quickly turn from the lobbyist receptions, pancake flips, and oil industry cocktail parties to the land of real ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Rod Loyola has resigned as the Alberta NDP MLA for Edmonton-Ellerslie and is running as the Liberal Party candidate in the new Edmonton Gateway riding in the federal election. Loyola represented his ...

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 ...

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