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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Image credit: David J. Climenhaga
If conspiracy theories are for losers, what does this say about Kenney's UCP?
David J. Climenhaga | Why is an ostensible political winner, touted as a restoration of a successful political dynasty, acting like a party that knows in its bones it is a loser?
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Rachel Notley during the NDP leadership campaign in October 2015. Image credit: Olav Rokne, used with permission
Alberta NDP leads UCP in 2020 fundraising totals
David J. Climenhaga | These fundraising numbers, like recent polling, add to the narrative of a badly led party increasingly rejected by the public that has the potential to bedevil the UCP right up to the next election.
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Rachel Notley and Sarah Hoffman when they were Alberta's premier and health minister -- admit it, don't you wish they still were? Image: David J. Climenhaga
Alberta NDP raises dramatically more in donations than the UCP during second quarter
David J. Climenhaga | Every afternoon we're told surging COVID-19 rates are a wake-up call for Albertans. Every morning the Kenney government sleeps through the alarm.
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NDP environment critic Marlin Schmidt. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Alberta NDP should be keeping the spotlight on Jason Kenney's racist speech writer, not Margaret Thatcher
David J. Climenhaga | The Alberta NDP should keep the spotlight shining where it's needed most -- including on Jason Kenney's determination to maintain a cozy space for racism in his government.
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Former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, now leader of the province's NDP Opposition, at a campaign rally on March 17 last year in Edmonton (Image: David J. Climenhaga).
Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP can thank their lucky stars they didn't win re-election last April
David J. Climenhaga | There are worse places to be than in Opposition when the province is in crisis.
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Heather McPherson, the federal NDP's candidate in Edmonton Strathcona, and former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason. Image: Heather McPherson for Edmonton Strathcona/Facebook
Edmonton Strathcona voters should support NDP, says former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason
David J. Climenhaga | Former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason didn't mention Notley by name, but her recent suggestion she might not vote NDP because of the federal party's pipeline policy obviously didn't impress him.
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Former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, whose NDP government brought in the so-called turn-off-the-taps law. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Court's decision to turn off Alberta's turn-off-the-taps law should surprise no one
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney, ironically, seems determined to stand by what is arguably Rachel Notley's worst law while tearing up the good legislation her government passed.
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Thomas Dang, one of the NDP members of the Alberta legislature's member services committee (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).
Symbolic MLA pay cut sets stage for attack on public services -- so why did Alberta NDP support it?
David J. Climenhaga | From the perspective of practical politics, what is important, and what will be remembered, is that the vote of the committee was unanimous. NDP members should have voted no.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, channeling Ralph Klein, arrives in the legislative building's rotunda after the throne speech. Photo: David J. Climenhaga
Crib notes: Understanding the United Conservative Party throne speech
David J. Climenhaga | If you were paying attention during the campaign, you've heard most of the United Conservative Party's first throne speech before. The interesting stuff was between the lines.
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MLA Shannon Phillips. Photo: David J. Climenhaga
Expect fireworks in Alberta's legislature, but no real brakes on radical UCP agenda
David J. Climenhaga | 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.
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NDP Leader Rachel Notley during her last campaign rally in Edmonton. Photo: David J. Climenhaga.
Pundits want you to believe negative campaigning hurt the NDP -- it likely saved their bacon!
David J. Climenhaga | By the end of 2018, the only arrow left in the NDP's quiver was to attack the character of the UCP's leadership and the ugly instincts of the UCP base.
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Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley on Tuesday night. Photo: David J. Climenhaga.
Jobs! Pipelines! Help is on the way! Or ... maybe not: Election hot takes from Alberta
David J. Climenhaga | If Justin Trudeau were smart, he'd cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project right now.