Alberta Politics: Freedom Conservative Party’s Derek Fildebrandt demonstrates...
Derek Fildebrandt, the self-described “Alberta redneck” who now leads the minuscule Freedom Conservative Party, has a talent for getting up his opponents’ noses. This has
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Odds-on favourites for disaster … ‘Jimmy the Geek’ sets...
Now that Alberta’s Opposition United Conservative Party has been around for a year – it’s first anniversary was on Sunday – we note that the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Didn’t care or didn’t know? UCP MLAs endorse author of...
Well, that certainly didn’t take long! Mere hours after AlbertaPolitics.ca published its semi-satirical, semi-serious “Jimmy the Geek” Vegas odds piece about the potential for bozo
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Janis Irwin running for NDP nomination in...
Photo: More than 200 people packed into the Bellevue Community Hall tonight to support Janis Irwin’s bid for the NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood. Janis Irwin launched
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Sarah Hoffman secures NDP nomination in...
Minster of Health and Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman has been nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate in Edmonton-Glenora for the next election. Hoffman was
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Rick Strankman ousted by Nate Horner in...
Photo: Rick Strankman and Jason Kenney (source: Facebook) Rick Strankman is the first incumbent MLA to lose his party’s nomination in this election cycle as
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta Party and Freedom Conservative Party leaders form...
Here comes the leader of the One True Conservative Party! Here comes the leader of the other One True Conservative Party! Actually, there are three
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It takes all kinds to make a cabinet, not necessarily good...
Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party cabinet contains a guy who once went down south to campaign for Donald Trump, a woman who opposes school gay-straight alliances and wrote a university...
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 ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 32: GSAs, GSAs, GSAs. Week 2 of Alberta’s...
Alberta’s provincial election is 16 days away and for the duration of the campaign, we are going to be recording a new episode of the Daveberta Podcast each week. In this episode Dave and Ryan talk...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It’s late for snowflakes, but UCP gas minister melts down...
St. ALBERT, Alberta — My goodness, it’s rough being a government minister in this province! Sometimes people will even criticize you! Dale Nally, associate minister of natural gas and electricity and...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 65: The Best of Alberta Politics 2020
With the help of two special guests, Jessica Littlewood and Matt Solberg, we are thrilled to announce and discuss the results of the 2020 Best of Alberta Politics survey. Jessica Littlewood was the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Two defiant UCP ministers tell Jason Kenney to apologize...
The good ship United Conservative Party, the vessel carrying Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s ambitions, sprang a couple more leaks yesterday. This time it was two female members of the UCP cabinet who...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: UCP Government imploding? Sexual harassment scandal hits...
Premier Jason Kenney had less than 24 hours to savour his dubious victory in Alberta’s anti-equalization referendum before a serious scandal involving accusations of sexual-harassment, heavy drinking...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Despite a few dissenting voices, unsettling new...
Presumably the risk remains small that deep-pocketed United Conservative Party activists will ever buy party memberships in the names of hundreds of random Albertans, funnel the funds to the party, and...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If the UCP’s Leela Aheer still has political ambitions,...
If Leela Aheer hopes to continue her career in Alberta provincial politics, she’ll probably need to find a new political party. Well, sure, the United Conservative Party MLA who lately has become a...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith, campaigning to lead the United Conservative...
Former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, campaigning to replace Jason Kenney as leader of the United Conservative Party, apparently thinks we should “Uber-fy public services,” let teachers set up...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Another poll shows Daniel Smith leading UCP leadership race...
Another day, another Alberta political poll, this time from Leger. UCP leadership candidate Danielle Smith in a video she made doing damage control for her controversial remarks about cancer (Photo:...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Whoever decided to pay Deena Hinshaw a 63% COVID bonus did...
Who made the decision to give Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s already controversial chief medical officer of health, that eye-popping $227,911 cash bonus for 2021? It was not a good announcement for UCP...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Signals unintelligence: Danielle Smith’s latest fumbles...
It’s hardly reassuring to learn Alberta’s new Danielle Smith Government is apparently so inept it didn’t know that it needed a minister to oversee the administration of the province’s labour laws....
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