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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, still with the Maple Leaf Flag in the background.

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It can no longer be denied that Alberta’s United Conservatives are a separatist party

by David J. Climenhaga December 8, 2025December 8, 2025

Former PC politician Thomas Lukaszuk at Elections Alberta’s Edmonton office on October 28 with 61 boxes of petition forms with 456,365 Albertans’ signatures on them.

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Petition for Alberta to stay in Canada receives Electoral Officer approval

by David J. Climenhaga December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith during her speech to the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting in Edmonton on Saturday.

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Danielle Smith booed by separatist party base at convention

by David J. Climenhaga December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

Danielle Smith and Mark Carney, all smiles

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Expect an Alberta election call shortly, before anyone realizes that pipeline to Prince Rupert is unlikely ever to be built

by David J. Climenhaga November 28, 2025November 28, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one

by David J. Climenhaga November 27, 2025November 27, 2025

Former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek.

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Five more UCP MLAs’ names added to Elections Alberta’s growing recall list

by David J. Climenhaga November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

Morinville-St. Albert MLA Dale Nally, the so-called minister of red tape reduction in Danielle Smith’s cabinet and possibly one of the more vulnerable targets of a Recall Act campaign.

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Nine Alberta MLAs facing recall petitions

by David J. Climenhaga November 25, 2025November 25, 2025

Jeanette Ageson, publisher of The Tyee, at left, and social media commentator Rachel Gilmore during their presentation at the Parkland Institute’s conference in Edmonton on Saturday.

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Gilmore warns Parkland Institute conference that far-right groups on the rise

by David J. Climenhaga November 24, 2025November 24, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith with three gentlemen of her acquaintance, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson and Conrad Black, in Calgary.

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Alberta’s Bill 13 seeks to legitimize false narratives and open bigotry

by David J. Climenhaga November 24, 2025November 24, 2025

Iconic country music performer Corb Lund outside the Alberta Legislature.

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Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes

by David J. Climenhaga November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

Alberta’s minister of arts, culture and status of women, Tanya Fir.

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Alberta cabinet minister gets caught describing constituent with crude epithet

by David J. Climenhaga November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

Former UCP MLAs Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair, who now sit as Independents in the Legislature, showing off a PC T-shirt last summer.

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Alberta United Conservatives go to court to stop elected-MLAs from using ‘progressive conservative’ name

by David J. Climenhaga November 17, 2025November 17, 2025