Jun 5 2023 — Calgary Herald — The Alberta NDP is claiming victory in two tightly contested Calgary ridings that needed recounts after election night, including that of former UCP justice minister Tyler Shandro. Unofficial vote counts in Calgary-Acadia and Calgary-Glenmore were within 100 ballots after the May 29 election, triggering mandatory recounts in both ridings. When polls closed, NDP candidates were […]
May 30 2023 — Calgary Herald — The UCP held onto power but Danielle Smith’s pre-election cabinet took some big losses along the way Monday night. The most decisive verdict against the UCP was just about everyone connected to health care fell from the ranks.
May 27 2023 — Bill Kaufmann — Calgary Herald — As Alberta’s provincial election enters its last lap, a new poll shows the UCP with a slight edge over the NDP both provincially and in the crucial battleground of Calgary. A Leger poll of 1,011 people conducted May 23 to 25 shows the UCP with 49 per cent of decided voter support, just ahead of […]
May 24 2023 — Calgary Herald — A former Alberta attorney general is condemning UCP Leader Danielle Smith for contravening Alberta’s Conflict of Interest Act by speaking to her justice minister about a prominent criminal case while premier. Jim Foster served as attorney general under former Progressive Conservative premier Peter Lougheed from 1975 to 1979.
May 23 2023 — Calgary Herald — As the Alberta provincial election winds into its final week, the two leading parties find themselves largely in the same spot as when they began their campaigns at the start of May. Polling shows Danielle Smith’s UCP and Rachel Notley’s NDP in a close heat both provincewide and in Calgary — the election’s main battleground […]
May 19 2023 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — Danielle Smith went into Thursday’s leaders debate with an albatross sitting on each shoulder. She’d just disowned a candidate, Jennifer Johnson, for a disgusting statement comparing trans kids to feces. And the ethics commissioner had released a report finding Smith in conflict of interest for trying to get charges dropped against pastor Artur Pawlowski.
May 15 2023 — Calgary Herald — The election tripped over the midway point on Monday, and Notley said the conflicting polls underscore how close the race is. Danielle Smith and Rachel Notley resumed their battle for Alberta on Monday, with the UCP leader ahead in the latest poll. Smith was in Calgary unveiling her plans to move forward with the controversial […]
May 15 2023 — Calgary Herald — A UCP candidate who claimed in a newly unearthed audio recording that teachers are exposing elementary school children to “hardcore pornography” while transgender children are being “chemically castrated,” says those comments were about the United States, not Alberta.
May 9 2023 — Rick Bell — Calgary Herald — It’s not often when Nazi leader and mass murderer Adolf Hitler leads a column during a provincial election in Canada. But here we are.
May 4 2023 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — The UCP is running a separatist campaign, but not the one you’d expect. This is a campaign to separate party Leader Danielle Smith from her past. Albertans who agree with many of her views are not the main audience in the campaign. She needs votes from people who lean toward the UCP but have doubts […]
Apr 2 2023 — Calgary Herald — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith continued on Saturday to insist she had done nothing wrong in taking a phone call with a Calgary street pastor weeks before he was due to stand trial. In her first public remarks since video of that conversation emerged in the news Wednesday, Smith, on her “Your Province, Your Premier” Corus […]
Mar 30 2023 — Calgary Herald — UCP candidate Torry Tanner has quit her run for MLA in southern Alberta after posting a video claiming teachers are exposing kids to pornography and gender reassignment with no parental consent or knowledge.
Mar 30 2023 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — It no longer matters so much whether Premier Danielle Smith directly tried to influence Crown prosecutors over COVID protest charges. Her video call with pastor Artur Pawlowski, released Wednesday by the CBC and the NDP, steps over so many other boundaries that the initial uproar seems almost quaint.
Mar 2 2023 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — The NDP is moving its campaign headquarters down the road to Calgary, along with about 50 people to run the central campaign and support crucial Calgary battles. They’ve secured an office on the west side of downtown. NDP campaigns have always been run out of Edmonton, but Calgary is now “my home away from home,” […]
Feb 28 2023 — Calgary Herald — Alberta’s UCP government tabled what amounts to a pre-election budget Tuesday with spending north of $70 billion and a surplus of $2.4 billion. The fiscal plan comes 90 days ahead of a scheduled spring election, and will see spending grow by nearly 4 per cent, with a bottom line fuelled by high oil prices.