Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget on Tuesday, February 26, 2023 — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.
When she was a lobbyist, Danielle Smith tried — and failed — to get the UCP to give oil companies $20 billion to clean up their own messes. Now that she's premier, it's a whole new ballgame, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Alberta's United Conservative Party government is facing growing criticism for a plan to give oil companies a royalty credit for cleaning up their old wells.
Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith’s government needs to end its fixation with pulling the province out of the Canada Pension Plan.
The Liberals have promised a "just transition act" since at least 2019, and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has been saying it will finally happen this year.
Alberta’s Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith's assurance of a thorough investigation into allegations of interference with Crown prosecutors is "an empty talking point" given new details on the search itself.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s promise to assemble a panel of medical experts to deliver ongoing advice on public health and COVID-19 will be covered off by former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning’s pandemic review, her office said on Wednesday, January 25, 2023.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Liberal government does not introduce and pass a pharmacare bill in the House of Commons this year, he will consider it a deal-breaker.
The CEOs of some of the biggest oilsands companies in Alberta say transitioning their workforce for a net-zero emissions future isn't about cutting jobs, it's about creating them.