daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Candidate Nomination Update:...
Photo: Central Calgary, with Calgary-Buffalo located south of the Bow River and Calgary-Mountain View located to the north. It has been a while since I have posted a nomination update, so here are a...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: New pipeline will carry Alberta Craft Beer...
After years of political wrangling over the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline, the Alberta government has announced the construction of a new pipeline that will carry craft brewed...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: NDPer...
The big nomination news since my last update was the announcement by Stephanie McLean that she was withdrawing from the New Democratic Party nomination contest in Calgary-Varsity.
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Former Ontario MP Jeff Watson running for...
Photo: Jeff Watson (left) speaks at a rally in support of Ontario PC candidate Chris Lewis (right) on May 11, 2018. Former Essex Member of
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: Pitt...
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
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Episode 15: Politicians pretending to be...
It is Calgary Stampede season, which means politicians from across Canada are flocking to Alberta’s largest city to show off their recently purchased plaid shirts
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Tom Olsen beats Megan McCaffrey in...
Photo: Tom Olsen and Ric McIver (source: Facebook) Lobbyist Tom Olsen surprised many political watchers last weekend when he defeated Megan McCaffery in the United
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta Government and AUPE sign tentative agreement for...
The Alberta Government and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees both announced yesterday they’ve signed a tentative agreement on a new collective agreement covering the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Guy Kerr can’t be blamed for the Alberta WCB’s troubles,...
Guy Kerr cannot be blamed for the tragic wrong turn the Alberta Workers Compensation Board took nearly 30 years ago under the Conservative governments of
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Former NDP leader Brian Mason says farewell with words of...
Former Alberta New Democratic Party leader Brian Mason has been a gale force presence in Alberta politics for so long it’s hard to imagine the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: No apologies: Rachel Notley sure didn’t sound as if she...
In what was probably the first speech of the 2019 Alberta provincial election campaign, if not quite officially, Premier Rachel Notley was comfortable, confident, funny,
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Calgary’s Olympic bid is dead, but don’t completely rule...
Moments after 10 p.m. last night, the few Albertans nervously paying attention outside Calgary received word voters in Cowtown had clearly said no to the
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta’s Bill 27 may not take the politics out of...
Tabling on Tuesday of Bill 27, Alberta legislation that will wrest control of public service pensions from the sole hands of the minister of finance
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Professors protest Moe Government plan to shutter archives...
SASKATOON, Sask. No sooner did the government of Saskatchewan oh-so-discreetly announce it is about to close four branches of the provincial archives and consolidate it
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Cuts & Critics: Expect fireworks in the Legislature, but no...
Alberta’s 24 NDP Opposition MLAs were sworn in yesterday and Opposition Leader Rachel Notley, not so long ago the province’s premier, named the MLAs who will fill her shadow cabinet portfolios....
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Tom Olsen and the Wreckage: Jason Kenney’s ‘War Room’ is...
Former journalist Tom Olsen, for much of the past decade a self employed PR man who rarely strayed far from the gravitational field of Conservative power in Alberta, was named yesterday by Energy...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Can Jason Kenney pass the UCP budget, prorogue the...
Beware the Ides of March! It’ll be interesting to see if Premier Jason Kenney can find a way to pass his budget, prorogue the Legislature, and get the heck outta Dodge before the really bad stuff from...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 59: The Fiscal Reckoning and Alberta’s 70-year...
After a very eventful summer in Alberta politics, Dave and Adam tackle big questions about Alberta’s fiscal challenges (and revenue problems) and Premier Jason Kenney’s promised ” fiscal reckoning,”...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Political New Year’s fireworks go off as Alberta learns...
Happy New Year, Alberta! And welcome to the first United Conservative Party Government scandal of 2021: Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard has been caught vacationing in Hawaii, mid-pandemic....
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Ask Me Anything about Alberta politics episode
You shared your Alberta politics questions and we answered them in our annual Ask Me Anything episode of the Daveberta Podcast. New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available to paid...
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