All The Rage
The tipping point came a week from the end of the campaign, and by April 16 in the Big Four Roadhouse on the Calgary Stampede grounds, United Conservative Party supporters felt scant need for [...]
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What They Did
On May 24, 2015, some 10,000 Albertans made their way to the legislature. The wading pool was full of kids and grown-ups splashing around, there were frozen treats and food trucks, and Edmonton [...]
Take Us to Your Leader
We were expecting a brawl. When Premier Rachel Notley and United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney faced off for the first time in the legislature on March 12, 2018, we were ready for plenty [...]
A Minority Government?
As we head toward the upcoming Alberta election, two words give hope to political underdogs and strike fear into the hearts of the overdogs: minority government. Our province has never had a [...]
Election Signs
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By albertaviews
Lorne Gibson: Election Commissioner
Lorne Gibson was Alberta’s first Election Commissioner—an independent non-partisan officer of the Legislature, appointed in May 2018. Previously he served as Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer [...]
Same Old Same Old or Real Change?
Five minutes before the polls closed on April 23, at the end of an Alberta election variously referred to by reporters as a “rollicking ribald rollercoaster,” the “most hotly contested general [...]
“Our Worst-Run Election Ever”
Someone told me: “We should have had UN observers monitoring Alberta’s last provincial election!” Alberta Liberal leader at the time, Kevin Taft, called it nothing less than “the worst-run [...]
Signs of a New Ferment
In other provinces, elections decide who will form the next government. In Alberta, they perpetuate a virtual one-party state. The televised scenes on election night, November 22, etched a sense [...]
By Mark Lisac
Diary of a Doorknocker
There were promises I’d made to myself—I will not drink, I will not smoke, I will not do drugs, I will not sleep around and I will not run for public office. I have stayed true to all but the [...]
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Kenney’s War on Workers
My wife and I spent our last day of our summer vacations in 2019 on a picket line with healthcare workers at Edmonton’s old General Hospital. Most of the cleaners, healthcare aides and nurses at the information picket were women of colour. Like public-sector workers across the province, they were ...
The Story of Joseph Lewis
In 1799 Joseph Lewis, a Hudson's Bay Company employee, arrived in what is now Alberta. He was 27 years old but his life had already been crammed with adventure.
Born in 1772 in Manchester, New Hampshire, at 20 he’d made his way to Montreal, where he joined the North West Company ...
Just Transition
There were times when I was taking home about $3,500 a week.” That was in the oil sands, during the boom before 2014. Lliam Hildebrand was a young welder who had come to the Athabasca oil sands for work.
Before that, the Victoria, BC, native spent his first eight years after high ...