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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebuking a decision by the United Conservative Party to disqualify candidate Zulkifl Mujahid, the board of directors of the UCP constituency association in Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo has voted to ...

Canada’s federal election is four days away and most polls are pointing to a big national victory for Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. While the national polls show the gap between Carney’s party and ...

Readers of this blog will know that I have a long-time interest in the topic of redrawing electoral boundaries. Over the next few months I plan to take a closer look at some of the latest electoral ...

Preston Manning emerged from political retirement to insert himself into the federal election mix by writing an op-ed in the Globe & Mail claiming that Liberal Party leader Mark Carney poses a threat ...

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 ...