Danielle Smith

In the face of the climate emergency and the imperative to give workers and communities confidence as we rapidly transition the economy, the bill is fundamentally incongruent with the task at hand, and ultimately of little consequence as drafted.

The most important issue in Alberta's election was the one nobody touched: the energy transition and its impact on the province's future. Why Albertans will end up paying the price of that — and why Danielle Smith seems determined to raise the cost.

Danielle Smith's electoral victory in Alberta could spell the beginnings of a renewed confrontation between her province and Ottawa over climate policy — and create fodder for future attacks against the federal Tories, political observers say.

The Alberta NDP's lack of a coherent economic message and its decision to announce a corporate tax hike mid-campaign cost it key votes in Calgary — and the election. Can the party learn from its mistakes and close the deal next time? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

Alberta’s United Conservative Party emerged bloodied but still standing in Monday’s bitterly contested provincial election.

The provincial campaign is being fought over many issues, but climate change is the elephant in the room.

As the Alberta election campaign heads into its final days, business groups are warning that increased divisiveness and political extremism poses a threat to the province's economic future.

A new study from Generation Squeeze finds environmental considerations are more or less absent on the campaign trail for the May 29 provincial election.

The Calgary street pastor at the centre of an investigation that concluded Premier Danielle Smith interfered in Alberta’s justice system says she is lying about the nature of their pivotal phone conversation.

Danielle Smith's history of ill-advised and outright offensive comments hasn't sunk her campaign — just like Donald Trump. Are Albertans really willing to sign up for four more years of that? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

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.

Some Albertans may consider higher provincial spending on medical care as a point of pride. Especially now when so many Canadians are concerned about gaps in our medical system. But the data show this spending isn’t worth bragging about because it does not buy better outcomes. 

Alberta’s two political contenders hammered each other on the issue of trust in the provincial election campaign's lone debate on Thursday.

A new study from Generation Squeeze finds that both the UCP and the Alberta NDP commit to deliver just eight per cent of the concrete policy actions needed to support young families at the critical moment in their lives when they are planning for and having children.

A United Conservative Party candidate who compared transgender children in schools to having feces in food says she is sorry, plans to learn from it and is staying on to run in the May 29 Alberta election.