The United Conservative Party is probably, maybe leading the pack in political party fundraising for the first time since 2020. But we’ll just have to take their word for it. The political party fundraising results from the first financial quarter of 2022 were released today, but because of changes the UCP made to political finance […]
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The calm before the storm. The deep breath before the plunge. Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is by-election day in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche. They’ve been overshadowed by Jason Kenney’s leadership review, the occupation of Ottawa, a blockade at Coutts, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but tomorrow the people of northern Alberta’s famed boom […]
The price of oil is way up and COVID-19 public health restrictions are gone in Alberta. Premier Jason Kenney and United Conservative Party cabinet ministers have fled the big cities and are hopping across the province making big spending announcements. Grande Prairie. Red Deer. Acme. Hospitals. Schools. Airports. Childcare centres. There is almost money for […]
The Buffalo Party of Alberta is officially registered with Elections Alberta. The party leadership includes leader John Molberg (a past Wildrose Party donor), President Sharon Smith (who in Leduc-Beaumont as a Wildrose candidate in 2015 and a UCP nomination candidate in 2018), and Chief Financial Officer Jenny Walker (the former chairperson of the separatist Wexit […]
Alberta is a pretty boring place to spend a federal election. Even as the polls shift nationally, there is a good chance the seat total could be the same as the 2019 election: 33 Conservative and one NDP. It’s a quiet campaign. Unlike the 2019 election, when Albertans were still riled up from that year’s […]
The Alberta NDP raised twice as much money as the United Conservative Party in the second quarter of 2021, according to financial documents released today by Elections Alberta. According to the returns, the NDP raised $1,515,419 and the UCP raised $769,847 between April 1 and June 30, 2021. This marks the second quarter in a row […]
“Opening for summer” was Premier Jason Kenney’s new tagline as he announced that by July the provincial government will mount a quick retreat from the public health restrictions implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19. It is a bizarre whiplash from a week ago when Alberta was leading North America for active cases of COVID-19 […]
Progress Alberta executive director Duncan Kinney is the first candidate to file his papers with Elections Alberta to run in Alberta’s Senate Nominee Election, which is taking place on the same day as the municipal elections on October 18, 2021. A well-known online provocateur and progressive activist, Kinney is listed as an Independent candidate in […]
The Alberta NDP raised twice as much money as the United Conservative Party in the first quarter of 2021, according to financial documents released today by Elections Alberta. This marks the third quarter in the last year that Rachel Notley’s NDP have out-fundraised the governing UCP. Not only have Albertans been showing their unhappiness with Jason Kenney’s […]
New cases of COVID-19 are on the rise and the third wave of the global pandemic is hitting Alberta, but that did not deter a group of nearly 20 United Conservative Party MLAs from publicly speaking out against the provincial government’s implementation of mild public health restrictions in response. Like the virus, the group of […]
Dr. Jared Wesley joins Dave Cournoyer on the Daveberta Podcast to discuss Jason Kenney’s leadership of the United Conservative Party, Rachel Notley’s focus on health care during the pandemic, the Alberta Party and Wildrose Independence Party leadership races, and the equalization referendum and Senate nominee elections that will coincide with the October municipal elections. We […]
With 2020 on its way out here is quick look at what might await Alberta’s political parties in 2021: United Conservative Party: The UCP will continue pushing through a legislative agenda and ideological project that includes mass privatization of public services and public land, and big job losses for public sector workers. The UCP’s inability […]
Alberta’s oldest newly rebranded separatist party has a new interim leader, maybe. A now deleted tweet from the newly renamed Wildrose Independence Party announced that former Wildrose Alliance leader Paul Hinman is the new interim leader of the party. Unless the party’s account was hacked, it would appear that Hinman is launching another attempt at […]
Political party fundraising totals from 2019 were released last month and show that Alberta’s two main provincial parties raised record amounts of money last year. The United Conservative Party raised $7.37 million as the party continues to demonstrate its fundraising strength. The now official opposition New Democratic Party also raised an impressive $5.5 million. The […]
Dozens of speakers stepped up to to the mic to share their two-minutes worth of opinions at the first “Fair Deal” Panel town hall meeting in Edmonton last night. The event in the large meeting room at the St. Michael’s Heritage Hall was well-attended, but not overflowing with crowds of angry Albertans demanding separation from […]