Alberta’s two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton, were home to the most interesting and most competitive races of the ...

Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer was publicly rebuked by Premier Danielle Smith and Minister of Justice Mickey Amery after a ...

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 ...

The winners of the 1998 Calgary Board of Education election (Calgary Herald, Oct. 16, 1998) The series was published in the weeks after Smith won the Wildrose Alliance Party leadership in 2009. Here ...

Who’s on first in the race to replace Amarjeet Sohi? It’s hard to tell. There are 87 days until municipal election day in Alberta and Edmonton’s sleepy mayoral race is beginning to take shape. With ...

NDP MP Blake Desjarlais faces former Conservative MP Kerry Diotte and Mark Carney’s red wave As Canada’s federal election enters its final week, I am taking a closer look at the race in the Edmonton ...

One of Daveberta’s first rules of Alberta politics is to never underestimate the Conservatives, and that rule appears to have held true last night as votes in the federal election were counted across ...

The ballots have been counted in the provincial by-elections held yesterday and the results are: Status quo ante bellum. Naheed Nenshi ’s NDP held suburban Edmonton-Ellerslie and urban ...

Jennifer Johnson welcomed into the UCP Caucus, Rob Anderson to replace Marshall Smith as Premier’s Chief of Staff The leaves are changing, the nights are getting cooler, and the days are getting ...

Danielle Smith and Jim Prentice make a grande entrance at yesterday’s press conference at Government House. Anyone already cynical about politics in Alberta will have their views reinforced with ...