Janis 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 ArticleToday in History: Alison Redford sworn-in as Premier of Alberta
On October 7, 2011, Alison Merrilla Redford stood in front of a large crowd of her peers and power-brokers in the Legislature Rotunda as she was sworn-in as Alberta’s 14th Premier. Having won the...
View ArticleWhat’s at stake in the four Oct. 27 by-elections?
With less than two days left in Alberta’s mini-election, voters will head to the polls on the morning of October 27, 2014 to cast their ballots in by-elections being held in Calgary-Elbow,...
View ArticleMonday morning candidate nomination updates in Alberta
The Progressive Conservatives held their first “Super Saturday” on Feb. 21, 2015, during which contested nominations were held in seven constituencies. The handful of contested PC nominations have been...
View Article12 races I’m watching on Election Night in Alberta
With all the polls showing the 43-year long governing Progressive Conservatives trailing the NDP and Wildrose across the province, there could be a race to watch in every constituency in Alberta when...
View ArticleFormer AUPE president Dan MacLennan now an Alberta Liberal VP
The Alberta Liberal Party held its annual general meeting in Red Deer this weekend where the party elected its executive officers, including a name that will be familiar to government-watchers in...
View ArticlePowerful NDP fundraising machine, Kenney implodes the Tories, Liberals launch...
The Alberta New Democratic Party raised more than the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties combined in the final quarter of 2016 and more than any other party over the entire year, according...
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 ArticleEpisode 24: Oil, Pipelines and Alberta’s next election.
The First Minister’s Meeting, oil prices, and Premier Rachel Notley’s performance on the national stage are where we started the discussion in this episode. Dave and Ryan also delved into the latest...
View ArticleEpisode 25: We answer your Alberta Politics questions
We asked listeners to send us their Alberta politics questions and we dedicated our final episode of 2018 to answering them! We kicked off this episode with a game of “is it more likely,” where we...
View ArticleCaylan Ford resigns as United Conservative Party candidate in...
Caylan Ford has resigned as the United Conservative Party candidate in Calgary-Mountain View following a report by Press Progress that alleges she sent text messages complaining that ‘white supremacist...
View ArticleNotley and Kenney visit Lethbridge on Day 2 of Alberta’s election, UCP...
Photo: Lethbridge NDP candidates Maria Fitzpatrick and Shannon Phillips, and UCP candidates Nathan Neudorf and Karri Flatla. Where the party leaders go during the first few days of the election...
View ArticleThe first week of Alberta’s 2019 election: NDP hammer Kenney on LGBTQ rights,...
Photo: NDP leader Rachel Notley speaks at a rally in north east Calgary (source: Twitter). With the first week of Alberta’s election campaign coming to an end, the biggest challenges facing many...
View ArticleEpisode 31: Game on. Week 1 of Alberta’s 2019 Election.
Alberta’s provincial election has been called and Albertans will be going to the polls on April 16. For the duration of the campaign, we’re going to be recording a new episode of the Daveberta Podcast...
View ArticleThis is sad. Alberta’s leaders’ debate remarkable for being horribly boring
Anyone tuning in to watch Alberta’s leaders’ debate who might have hoped to watch a battle of the titans will have surely been disappointed. Tonight’s televised leaders’ debate was uninspiring and...
View ArticleEpisode 33: Ballot Questions, the Leaders’ Debate, and your great Alberta...
In this episode Dave and Ryan discuss the latest Alberta’s election developments, including the fallout from Mark Smith’s homophobic comments, Jason Kenney’s interview with Charles Adler and how it...
View ArticleEpisode 34: When you play the Game of Thrones… Alberta election edition.
In this episode Dave and Ryan discuss the huge turnout at the advance polls, some of the key races to watch on election night, and recap of the final days of the campaign. We also dive into the mailbag...
View Article8 races I am watching on Election Night in Alberta
At this point in Alberta’s election campaign, I am frequently being asked “what races are you watching on election night?” The short answer is, I am watching all of them, but there are a few specific...
View ArticleAlberta goes Blue: Jason Kenney’s UCP wins an unsurprising majority victory
It was largely expected and anti-climactic, but Jason Kenney has led his United Conservative Party to form a majority government in Alberta, defeating the one-term New Democratic Party government of...
View ArticleEpisode 35: The big UCP win, an Alberta Election Recap
The Alberta election is over. In this episode Dave and Ryan discuss the election results, who Jason Kenney might pick for the United Conservative government cabinet, what is next for Rachel Notley and...
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