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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 (centre) with Alberta Liberal MLAs Grant Mitchell (left) and Bettie Hewes (right) in 1986. He was never Premier of Alberta or even Leader of the Official Opposition, but Nick Taylor was a ...