Premier Danielle Smith, with Alberta enjoying billions of dollars in surplus cash, announced on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, a batch of inflation-fighting relief aid, particularly for families, seniors and the vulnerable.
The Alberta Sovereignty Act, after all, is apparently modelled on the strategy used by Quebec’s separatists, which cost that province billions of dollars in lost jobs and investment and turned Toronto into the financial and economic capital of Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Premier Jason Kenney says his party was founded on a strong Alberta within Confederation and he won’t sit idly by while one of the candidates vying to replace him pitches a "risky, dangerous, half-baked" and "banana republic" plan for more provincial independence.
Premier Jason Kenney kicked off a campaign to lure skilled workers from Toronto and Vancouver as he doubled down on his criticism of a so-called Alberta sovereignty act pitched by one of the candidates running to replace him.
Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark on Thursday, August 11, 2022, endorsed Jean Charest to be the next leader of the federal Conservatives at a time when she says the party is racing to the extremes.
After leading the Wildrose Party to defeat in a 2012 Alberta election and betraying her own caucus by crossing the floor to the governing Progressive Conservatives in 2014, Danielle Smith is taking one last kick at the can with her bid to become leader of the United Conservative Party.