UCP Leadership Race

• Brooks-Medicine Hat byelection set for November 8

  Alberta’s new premier and leader of the United Conservative Party Danielle Smith will get her chance at a seat in the Legislature in just over a month.

  Politics

  Oct 11, 2022
  
• Southern Alberta MLA resigns, encourages Danielle Smith to run in the seat

  An Alberta legislature member has resigned and is encouraging the freshly chosen United Conservative Party leader — and next premier — to run for her seat in a byelection.

  Politics

  Oct 7, 2022
  
• Advertisement
• Smith needs to unify UCP after close vote to win party leadership: political commentators

  Danielle Smith won the leadership of the United Conservative Party on Thursday to become Alberta's premier-designate.

  Politics

  Oct 7, 2022
• Advertisement
• Alberta UCP to pick province’s new premier Thursday

  Alberta's governing UCP is scheduled pick the province's new premier Thursday, and political observers say its next step should be getting back on the same page as the province.

  Politics

  Oct 5, 2022
• Alberta UCP leadership candidate Danielle Smith says if elected, she won’t call early election

  Danielle Smith, the perceived front-runner in the UCP leadership race, says the public tends to punish leaders who call an early election.

  Politics

  Oct 3, 2022
• Don’t cry for me: Kenney prepares to leave office as UCP leader

  It's Premier Jason Kenney's swan song message as he prepares to depart the province's top job, forced out by the very United Conservative Party he willed into existence.

  Politics

  Oct 2, 2022
• ‘The lunatics are trying to take over the asylum’: Kenney quotes to remember

  Jason Kenney will be replaced as Alberta's UCP leader Thursday after he denounced his leadership in May. Here are some of his most memorable quotes from his time as party leader.

  Politics

  Oct 2, 2022
• Alberta UCP leadership race likely doing ‘serious damage’ to party’s brand: pollster

  An Alberta politics expert says Danielle Smith's sovereignty-based campaign is not resonating with the average voter despite her frontrunner status.

  Politics

  Oct 2, 2022
• Advertisement
• Jason Kenney in good company with former Alberta’s premiers to step down mid-term

  Kenney, who announced in May he would be stepping down as party leader after unfavorable party support vote, will be replaced as Alberta's premier Thursday.

  Politics

  Oct 2, 2022
• Advertisement
• Pierre Poilievre needs to move beyond Alberta roots to offer broad vision

  Political experts weigh in on what Pierre Poilievre's victory as Conservative Leader of Canada means for Alberta, especially amid the UCP leadership race.

  Politics

  Sep 11, 2022