Breaking up the federal and provincial arms of the New Democratic Party would be a mistake, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suggested on Thursday, as members in Alberta increasingly vocalize their desire for a separation.
The former mayor of Calgary is now officially part of the race to replace Rachel Notley as Alberta NDP leader. In the process, he's challenging the very nature of the party — and its inclination towards choosing principles over power.
In her time as Alberta NDP leader, Rachel Notley took the party from also-ran status to the first non-conservative government in history. Could she be the one who finally gets the federal NDP to the promised land of real political power?
Is it time for the Alberta NDP to change its name? That's what one former MLA is asking, and it has people talking. But does that conversation miss the political forest for the trees — and avoid the real matter at hand?
The Liberals are collapsing in the polls, but the NDP's numbers haven't budged. Why their refusal to speak the language of jobs and the economy is holding them back, and what they can do to close the gap?
There's not much hope for Alberta to fix its broken generational system this election, write Paul Kershaw and Andrea Long of Generation Squeeze, but the next government could start by naming a minister responsible for intergenerational fairness.
The average price of a home in Alberta is approximately $447,000. It requires 10 years of full-time work for a typical young person to save enough for a 20 per cent down payment.
When she was a lobbyist, Danielle Smith tried — and failed — to get the UCP to give oil companies $20 billion to clean up their own messes. Now that she's premier, it's a whole new ballgame, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
So far, at least, Rachel Notley's NDP doesn’t seem to sense the political danger associated with this tsunami of oil cash, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
While oil company executives may be able to fill their pockets right now, Alberta ought to use this last boom to repay the environmental debts their companies have racked up over the years, writes columnist Max Fawcett.