The three provincial by-elections are in full swing and the NDP are eager to have leader Naheed Nenshi join their MLAs in the ...

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The three provincial by-elections are in full swing and the NDP are eager to have leader Naheed Nenshi join their MLAs in the Legislature. Two new polls will add extra urgency to the NDP’s efforts to ...

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 ...

If the Alberta government could tax all the hot air at today’s anti-carbon tax rally in Calgary the deficit could be paid off. United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney and Ontario Premier Doug ...

The fall session of the Alberta Legislature ended last week and MLAs will now spend the next few weeks working in their constituencies until the Assembly returns in early 2016. The Assembly passed ...

Nearly one-third of federal Conservative candidates running in Alberta ridings have been endorsed by the controversial Campaign Life Coalition for their opposition to women’s reproductive rights, ...

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announces the government's plans to not increase royalty rates. Standing behind her: Calgary-Glenmoore MLA Anam Kazim (left) and Calgary-Cross MLA Ricardo Miranda (right) ...

Premier Rachel Notley and Environment Minister Shannon Phillips release Alberta's climate change plan in November 2015. “On a public policy Richter scale, Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan is an ...

After ten years as the MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and nearly six years as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Nathan Cooper is leaving the Legislature to take up a new job as Alberta’s senior ...

Alberta Provincial Police machine-gun equipped motor-cycle and side car during the Drumheller Coal Miners Strike (source: Alberta Culture) “Should Alberta be an autonomous Province? South Tyrol has” ...