Danielle Smith and Naheed Nenshi will spar in the Legislature but the most interesting politics will be on the road. A recent ...

A recent fundraising email from Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi with the subject line “ Sooner than we think? ” includes ...

Titled ‘ First Social Credit Baby ,’ the one-paragraph notice announced that a Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Holman gave birth to a child ...

Alberta’s history is filled with colourful characters and perhaps one of the most unlikely was John Whitlaw Leedy. But before ...

I was born in Edmonton in 1983 and the first Premier I remember being aware of was Ralph Klein. Having grown up during the Klein-era, I have a different perspective of those years than most mainstream ...

Nick Taylor (centre) with Alberta Liberal MLAs Grant Mitchell (left) and Bettie Hewes (right) in 1986. He was never Premier of Alberta or even Leader of the Official Opposition, but Nick Taylor was a ...

I really cannot improve on this media release sent today from Liberalberta Party president Todd Van Vliet, so I have posted it in its entirety. (EDMONTON, AB) A merger of the Alberta Liberals and the ...

Transportation Minister and Calgary-North East MLA Rajan Sawhney has tapped longtime conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool to run her exploratory committee. “[W]hat this race needs right now is just ...

“Rat-free, PST-free and Liberal-free” has been a Conservative mantra in Alberta since the reign of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. But is this trifecta now in jeopardy? The decline of government revenues ...

Big questions about Alberta politics on The Line Podcast Any day I get to talk about Alberta politics is a good day, so I was thrilled to join freelance writer and The Line co-founder Jen Gerson on ...

The winners of the 1998 Calgary Board of Education election (Calgary Herald, Oct. 16, 1998) The series was published in the weeks after Smith won the Wildrose Alliance Party leadership in 2009. Here ...