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 ...

New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Daveberta Substack. We also delve into Pierre Poilievre’s future as leader of the Conservative ...

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 ...

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” ...

Former Premier Peter Lougheed and former Minister Pierre Trudeau, sometime political adversaries in the disputes over Canada's oil development in the 1980s. There is nothing more Albertan than a good ...

Naheed Nenshi’s speech was upbeat and touched on a lot of traditional NDP points about public health care, public education and rights for workers, but he was most animated when ripping into Premier ...

Brian Jean and Jason Kenney in happier times. “After having served the party for approximately fifteen years in various capacities, I am not in support of the direction the party is currently taking ...