With the meeting over, the premier, and her caucus and cabinet, now have their party’s marching orders. It will be up to them to navigate which of the policy proposals passed by members will become government policy, which can sold to Alberta voters, and how to do so. Somewhat unusually...
Alberta's Danielle Smith wins massive 91.5% support from UCP members Article content On Saturday afternoon, the party announced that 91.5 per cent of the party’s membership, voting in person at the Red Deer convention, had backed Smith. Earlier in the day, during her speech to the more tha...
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Kenney announced in May he was quitting after receiving a lukewarm 51 per cent support in a party leadership review. The candidates have been proposing a range of policy ideas from health care to education reform, but the focus of debate has been on how to leverage Alb...
The United Conservative Party under leader Jason Kenney has won a majority government in the Alberta election. Kenney jumped out front in early returns Tuesday in Alberta’s election, while Rachel Notley’s NDP was holding strong in Edmonton. ...
When the Assembly reconvenes on October 30, 2017, if there are no further changes to caucus affiliation before that time, the composition of the Assembly will be: 54 NDP, 27 members of the UCP Official Opposition, one Member each for the Alberta Liberals, the Alberta Party, and the Progress...
The NDP pointed to a recent Business Council of Alberta study that said capital investment in the province isn’t at the level of energy sector investment that would typically come during high oil prices. The party also referenced an Alberta Central report that said the Alberta Advantage is “...
“There is no connection between this appointment, the changes we made at AIMCo and a potential Alberta pension plan. “To be super-clear, we are waiting on the number from the Office of the Chief Actuary. We made it clear to Albertans we wouldn’t move a finger...
This person is a small-c conservative who grew up on a farm, worked as an engineer, always voted for a conservative party but is dismayed Smith is trying to “appeal to the crazies in Alberta.” Their words, not mine. But you get the point. I hear it a ...
Danielle Smith celebrates the UCP’s win and her re-election as premiere in the 2023 Alberta election at the UCP watch party on the election night at Big Four Building in Calgary on Monday, May 29, 2023. Azin Ghaffari/Postmedia Varcoe: ‘There’s a big fight coming’ —...