Danielle Smith

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on social media that Ottawa has approved Alberta’s request for federal assistance after a fast-moving wildfire hit Jasper National Park and its townsite late on Wednesday.

Online disinformation and extremist networking are igniting a fire, and right-wing politicians in Canada are all too keen to fan the flames.

Calgary residents are getting a happy diversion from their water woes, as its annual Stampede summer festival begins today with a downtown parade.

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 war room’s long list of self-owns and other humiliating defeats is so well and widely known by now that even its staunchest defenders quietly acknowledge them. There will be no tearful eulogies for its contribution to the conversation around energy policy in Canada, and the only people who will miss it are the ones — like me — who used its constant follies as fodder for their own output.

Provinces and territories working together to decarbonize their power grids is an essential step in the country's transition off fossil fuels to a sustainable future, but plenty stands in the way of meeting that goal. Chief among them: political polarization.

Two reports that exaggerate the cost of an emissions cap to the oil and gas industry are excellent data points in support of Mark Twain’s dim view of statistics, and both are shaped by assumptions — presumably directed by the organizations funding them — that have no resemblance to reality. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith might not like Justin Trudeau, but she needs him more than anyone else in Canada. 

Canada's Conservatives need to get serious about the province's oil and gas industry — otherwise, it will be left in the dust by a global energy transition supercharged by Chinese manufacturing.

Huge soaker hoses are being used to help protect buildings, homes and vital routes into and out of the Alberta city against wildfire flames that have forced the evacuation of four neighbourhoods.

Alberta's United Conservative Party is hosting a gathering of some of Canada's most noxious vaccine skeptics for a conversation about the supposed risks posed by mRNA technology to children. What could go wrong?

A Welsh legislator has proposed a new law against lying in politics in his country. Ask yourself what's more outlandish: his idea or the extent to which we already tolerate lying in our political discourse?

India's envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.

Danielle Smith loves to complain about federal overreach into Alberta's affairs. But as her onerous new municipal governance legislation shows, she has absolutely no qualms about doing it herself when it comes to cities like Calgary and Edmonton.

Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative Party government was talking with the coal industry about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines long before making those plans public.