Is the Jim Prentice Juggernaut unstoppable?
He is a leadership candidate backed by long-governing party establishment. He has chased away his potential rivals. He has experience in both the federal cabinet and the corporate sector. He is a...
View ArticleA Dozen Alberta MLAs worth watching in 2015
As 2014 reminded us, politics can be an extraordinarily unpredictable and forecasting the future can be a tricky business for political pundits. Aside from the obvious choice of Premier Jim Prentice,...
View ArticleAlberta loses a big voice with the passing of MLA Manmeet Bhullar
Terribly sad news in Alberta politics today. CBC is reporting that 35-year old MLA Manmeet Bhullar has been killed in a car crash on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway while driving from Calgary to...
View ArticleGreens choose Thana Boonlert in Calgary-Greenway. Aryan Sadat runs for the...
Alberta’s opposition parties are preparing for a spring by-election in Calgary-Greenway. The east Calgary constituency was represented by Progressive Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar from 2008 until...
View ArticleAlberta Candidate Nomination Update: Pitt bests Millions in Airdrie-East,...
Photo: Calgary-West MLA Mike Ellis and Airdrie MLA Angela Pitt were greeting party members outside the nomination voting station in the Town and Country Centre in Airdrie on July 20, 2018. (Source:...
View ArticleThree candidates drop out of Peace River UCP race, showdown in...
The number of candidates in the United Conservative Party nomination contest in the sprawling northwest district of Peace River has dropped from five to two. Lisa Wardley, deputy reeve of Mackenzie...
View ArticleSixth MLA leaves the UCP. Prab Gill resigns from caucus following...
The polls suggest the United Conservative Party is poised to form government in 2019, but how united the caucus actually is remains questionable. Calgary-Greenway UCP MLA Prab Gill issued a statement...
View ArticleUCP quashes Giant Bozo-Eruption in the making by dropping anti-Muslim...
The United Conservative Party quashed a giant bozo-eruption in the making this week when the party asked S. Todd Beasley to withdraw his candidacy for the nomination in the new Brooks-Medicine Hat...
View ArticleJanis Irwin running for NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Daniel...
Photo: More than 200 people packed into the Bellevue Community Hall tonight to support Janis Irwin’s bid for the NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood. Janis Irwin launched her campaign for the...
View ArticleUCP leads nominations with candidates selected in 58 of 87 districts
Photo: United Conservative Party candidates Rajan Sawhney, Mickey Amery, Jasraj Singh Hallan, and Elisabeth Hughes. Good evening, here is the latest update of nomination races and candidates preparing...
View ArticleSearle Turton nominated in Spruce Grove – Stony Plain, Judy Kim-Meneen leaves...
Photo: Judy Kim-Meneen, Searle Turton, Kevin Smook and Devin Dreeshen Here are a few of the latest updates to the list of candidates nominated and seeking nomination to run in Alberta’s next provincial...
View ArticleCaylan Ford wins UCP nomination in Calgary-Mountain View. Calgary-East UCP...
Photo: Caylan Ford, Peter Singh, Parmeet Singh Boparai, and Kaycee Madu Former Global Affairs Canada senior policy advisor Caylan Ford defeated Becca Polak and Jeremy Wong to win the United...
View ArticleUCP staff post creepy video of NDP staffer and Independent MLA leaving a...
The 51-second video is grainy, black and white, and recorded in slow motion to look like security camera footage. It is March 4, 2019. A man walks out of room into a lobby and waits for an elevator....
View ArticleUCP MLA Devinder Toor hit with a $15,000 fine from Elections Alberta
Elections Alberta is reporting that it has issued $15,000 in fines against Calgary-Falconridge United Conservative Party MLA Devinder Toor for violations of five sections of the Election Finances and...
View ArticleUCP MLA Tany Yao running for re-election in Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo,...
MLA Tany Yao has filed his papers with Elections Alberta signalling his plans to run for the United Conservative Party nomination in Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo. Yao was first elected as a Wildrose...
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