Danielle Smith

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz encouraged Canadians to "look at the facts" about the proposed federal emissions cap. She might want to think twice about that.

Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday it's a de facto production cap that will stifle the economy.

The Alberta government is proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar farms that conservationists think are more about limiting renewable energy than protecting the environment.

For anyone who complained about Jason Kenney’s shoddy leadership in Alberta, it’s a useful reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, they can always get worse. We’re about to get another example of that, it seems, as Danielle Smith's UCP government greases the skids for a massive bailout of the oil and gas industry and its growing inventory of unreclaimed and orphaned wells.

Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seekers more equitably across the country.

The anti-greenwashing portion of the federal bill C-59 has clear implications for claims made by oil and gas companies about carbon capture, utilization and storage technology

Why is a populist politician like Danielle Smith pursuing unpopular policies and positions? Because she understands where the real threat lies for a conservative premier. As former conservative premiers like Jason Kenney have learned the hard way, the call almost always comes from inside the house.

Saskatchewan's two largest school divisions say they’ve addressed concerns from teachers and are enforcing the province’s pronoun law as children head back to classrooms next week.

Alberta and Saskatchewan's funding of small nuclear reactors is an obstructionist tactic to slow down the transition away from fossil fuels.

Renewable energy investments have also experienced growing earnings over the past 10 years due to steadily decreasing cost of capital across the globe.

Following years of advocacy and struggle, Indigenous nations downstream of the oilsands have received funding to understand the diseases they argue are a direct cause of the fossil fuel industry.

The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Hinton, Alta., to get a briefing on the status of the Jasper wildfire, as well as meet with the province's premier and evacuees who fled the blaze that destroyed a third of the town.

An influential hub for Canadian conservatives is bringing far-right American provocateur Chris Rufo to Alberta to share his vision for the conservative movement. Experts tell Canada's National Observer he's a master at exploding fringe issues into the mainstream, which spells bad news for progressive policies.

The Alberta premier says her government is striking a committee of senior civil servants to work with Parks Canada and Jasper leaders to swap ideas, expedite development permits and collaborate on ways to restore Jasper as quickly as possible.