Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

• Close to 800,000 have applied for $100 rebate, payments coming: Alberta’s Smith

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says those people who applied for her government's $100 energy rebate should start receiving payments within the next few days.

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• Alberta’s Smith is shrugging off UCP backbencher’s condemnation of MOU with Ottawa

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office is shrugging off criticism from a UCP backbenchers over the government's deal with Ottawa to get an oil pipeline built.

  Politics

  Jun 30
  
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• Smith says caucus executive director didn’t report voter list meeting to higher-ups

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith faced more questions Monday about the leak of personal information on millions of Alberta voters and why she wasn't informed sooner.

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  May 11
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• 2026 Alberta budget taxes criticized as ‘another version of equalization’

  Terrible. Another version of equalization. Those are a few of the terms being used to describe the 2026 Alberta budget tabled in the provincial legislature in Edmonton on Thursday.

  Economy

  Feb 26
• Alberta ‘shooting itself in the foot’ by blaming immigrants, say experts

  Immigration experts say the UCP's proposed changes to immigration policies could turn immigrants away when they're still badly needed in some sectors of Alberta's economy.

  Politics

  Feb 23
• Alberta Premier defends controversial referendum questions on immigration

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending her proposed changes to immigration rules, that will be the subject of province-wide referendum in October.

  Politics

  Feb 20
• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to discuss plans for provincial referendums

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be holding a press conference in Calgary at 11:30 a.m. on Friday to discuss her provincial referendum plans this fall.

  Politics

  Feb 20
• Alberta government accused of ‘weaponizing immigration’ to win votes

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said immigration is one of the issues she plans to discuss during a province-wide television address on Thursday, Feb. 19.

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  Feb 19
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• Advocacy groups change tactics to keep court case against Alberta trans law alive

  Advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government's controversial new laws on transgender youth say they are unconstitutional because only Ottawa has authority to make criminal law.

  Crime

  Dec 11, 2025
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• Trump’s tariffs have ‘broken trust between our two nations,’ Alberta premier says

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith issued scathing criticism of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian imports as she outlined the steps the province in taking to respond.

  Economy

  Mar 5, 2025