Brian Jean

A leaked audio recording appears to show that a contender for the leadership of Alberta's newly-formed United Conservative Party was pushed into running to foil the efforts of a top rival to eventual contest winner Jason Kenney. 

Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney wouldn't stop to answer questions about a former call centre leader on his leadership campaign who was reportedly linked to an online store selling white supremacist memorabilia.

Fresh off uniting Alberta's feuding, floundering centre-right to forge a unified opposition, Jason Kenney begins work in 2018 to build on those gains ahead of a provincial election.

"It's another miracle on the Prairies," Jason Kenney told a cheering crowd after the result was announced. The former federal cabinet minister took 61.1 per cent of the vote.

Alberta new United Conservatives will pick a new leader today, October 28, 2017.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government is being unfair in the way it assesses pipeline projects, but her government will not go to court for now to try to make it right.

The four men vying for the leadership of Alberta's new UCP focused their attacks on Alberta's NDP government and Justin Trudeau rather than each other during the first official debate on Wednesday.

Rebel's Charlottesville coverage has been followed by more than a week of questions about how conservative political parties engaged with the site in the past and how they will do so in the future.

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer has distanced himself from a far right website, saying he will no longer grant it interviews until it changes its editorial direction.

A constituency association in southern Alberta is standing behind the area's embattled member of the legislature. who has resigned from his party's caucus following a bevy of negative headlines.

The United Conservative Party MLA, described by the CBC as a "fiscal firebrand," is due back in court this September on the hit-and-run charge. He announced he was leaving his party on Tuesday night.

With a new United Conservative Party, a leadership race underway, and summer poll results that show they could win in 2019, right-wing Albertans are positively giddy, Sheila Pratt writes.

Fildebrandt started out the day in a defensive posture, saying there was nothing wrong with renting out his subsidized Edmonton apartment through Airbnb when he wasn't using it. He later apologized.

The former president of Alberta's P.C. says some members feel adrift after a majority voted to embrace a new party.

Caucus members from Alberta's two conservative parties got together for the first time on Monday, July 24, 2017, but one Progressive Conservative bowed out before the joint meeting even took place.