Alberta is getting a bad deal and it’s always Ottawa’s fault. That’s Premier Danielle Smith ’s key message in a 6 minute and ...

Naheed Nenshi ’s NDP held suburban Edmonton-Ellerslie and urban Edmonton-Strathcona, and Premier Danielle Smith ’s United Conservative Party held rural Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. Dave Cournoyer is a ...

Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at [email protected].

Voters only getting 2 more MLAs despite huge population boom Alberta will have a new electoral map when the next provincial election is called. An Electoral Boundaries Commission has been named and ...

Also: Six thoughts on Danielle Smith’s separatist threats After ten years as the MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and nearly six years as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Nathan Cooper is leaving ...

New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Daveberta Substack. The votes are counted and the surprising results of Monday’s federal election ...

Jagmeet Singh, Pierre Poilievre, and maybe Mark Carney make final stops in Alberta Canada’s federal election is four days away and most polls are pointing to a big national victory for Mark Carney ’s ...

Preston Manning emerged from political retirement to insert himself into the federal election mix by writing an op-ed in the Globe & Mail claiming that Liberal Party leader Mark Carney poses a threat ...

Rod Loyola has resigned as the Alberta NDP MLA for Edmonton-Ellerslie and is running as the Liberal Party candidate in the new Edmonton Gateway riding in the federal election. Loyola represented his ...

Danielle Smith joins Team Canada reluctant to use oil & gas trump card One full day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and provincial premiers Doug Ford in Ontario and Wab Kinew in Manitoba announced ...

That time of year is once again upon us: the annual Family Day long weekend in Alberta. Thirty-five years after Albertans first marked the third Monday in February as a provincial holiday in 1990, ...