Detente or Entente Cordiale? AUPE and Hancock Government reach tentative...
TweetAt 10:00 a.m. on April 28, 2014, Hugh McPhail, a lawyer representing the Alberta Government requested the Court of Appeal to adjourn a scheduled hearing on Bill 46, the controversial anti-labour...
View ArticleLook who’s running in 2016: Alberta Election nominations
TweetWith the four provincial by-elections over, the focus will soon turn back to nominating candidates to stand in Alberta’s next general election. The next election is scheduled to be held sometime...
View ArticleBill 45 deserved to die. Kudos to Prentice for killing it.
One year ago, the PC Party was on verge of meltdown as Alison Redford resigned as leader and Premier. Since then, the political landscape has shifted so dramatically that the only significant thing...
View ArticleFormer AUPE president Dan MacLennan now an Alberta Liberal VP
The Alberta Liberal Party held its annual general meeting in Red Deer this weekend where the party elected its executive officers, including a name that will be familiar to government-watchers in...
View Article253,900 Albertans got a raise this month
Labour Minister Christina Gray with Lynsae Moon, co-owner of the Nook Café. (Photo: Government of Alberta) Alberta’s minimum wage jumped to $15 per hour on October 1, 2018, making our province the...
View ArticleBlack Friday gets new meaning in Alberta as UCP plans to sack thousands of...
As conservative partisans gather at the Westin Hotel near the Calgary International Airport tonight for the United Conservative Party annual general meeting, thousands of public sector workers are...
View ArticleCOVID was supposed to be Jason Kenney’s Battle of Britain. What happened?
When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Alberta many months ago, Premier Jason Kenney was front-and-centre. Ever the Anglophile, Kenney quoted Winston Churchill and compared the pandemic...
View ArticleEpisode 72: The COVID 18 and the Curriculum Catastrophe
Alberta politics moves at a mile a minute and there’s no time to waste. On this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, we dive into the United Conservative Caucus rebellion against mild public health...
View ArticleHe’s back, again! Former Liberal leader and aspiring UCP leadership candidate...
Despite being rejected as a candidate for the United Conservative Party leadership last year, former Liberal Party leader Dr. Raj Sherman is running for the UCP nomination in Edmonton-Whitemud. Running...
View ArticleTracy Allard not running for re-election, former MLA Dave Quest joins...
Tracy Allard announced she will not be seeking re-election after one-term as the United Conservative Party MLA for Grande Prairie. In a statement posted on Facebook, Allard revealed she has been...
View ArticleThe race to replace Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP
Choose wisely. Notley’s successor could be the next Premier of Alberta Rachel Notley has been one of the Alberta NDP’s greatest assets since she took up the reins of the party in 2014. Under Notley’s...
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