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Toward the end of the 2015 Alberta election campaign, NDP Leader Rachel Notley summoned her four-member caucus to an Edmonton hotel room with little explanation."I thought, 'Oh my God, what's happening?'" said David Eggen, who was campaigning to keep a north Edmonton seat."And she said, 'I think we're going to win.' And that was just the jaw-dropping moment."
Alberta's affordability and utilities minister says the provincial government did everything it could to prepare for a surge in demand for power that utilities might not be able to meet."It was a learning experience," Minister Nathan Neudorf told reporters in Edmonton on Monday. "Hopefully, we won't have that experience again."Record-breaking cold temperatures, little sun or wind during times of peak demand, and a handful of natural gas power plants offline led to Albertans consuming more electricity than generators could provide on Saturday night.
Weeks after being relegated to the Opposition benches in the 2019 provincial election, NDP leader Rachel Notley was already spelling out her ambition for 2023 — to defeat the newly United Conservative Party and once again become premier.Notley says her party got "two-thirds of the way" to that goal in the May election when Danielle Smith's UCP won 49 seats to the NDP's 38.