Provincial Politics

Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects.Sonya Savage, in a statement, says that i...

Jan 07, 2020

Alberta justice minister says province will 'fight back' against carbon tax

CALGARY - Alberta is promising to continue its fight against the federal consumer carbon tax as the price of gasoline in the province is set to jump. Starting Wednesday, a litre of gas is expecte...

Jan 02, 2020

Feds, Alberta set to clash over cash for new rent supplement

OTTAWA - Alberta is pushing back against the Trudeau Liberals' expectation that provinces and territories pick up half the cost of a new rent supplement, asking instead to substitute federal fund...

Dec 26, 2019

'Intimidating:' Alberta's energy war room singles out climate campaigner

Steven Lee has spoken in hundreds of classrooms around the country about challenges for today's young people posed by everything from genetic engineering to artificial intelligence to climate cha...

Dec 21, 2019

U.S. software giant checking on logo used by Alberta's energy war room

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room says it is pulling and replacing its logo after learning that it was already being used by another company.The war room, officially known as the Canadian Energy Ce...

Dec 19, 2019

Alberta, Ottawa head to province's Appeal Court over carbon tax dispute

EDMONTON - About a year ago, Alberta's United Conservative Party leader stood in front of 1,500 raucous supporters and called the federal carbon tax an act of "economic masochism" that he would f...

Dec 16, 2019

Premier Kenney opens war room to promote 'truth' about energy industry

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the province's so-called war room will be respectful while fighting what he says is a foreign-funded campaign of lies to landlock the province's resour...

Dec 11, 2019

Alberta 'Fair Deal Panel' starts public town hall meetings in Edmonton

EDMONTON - An Alberta government panel looking at ways to make the province more independent is holding its first town hall meeting tonight in Edmonton. United Conservative Premier Jason Kenney announ...

Dec 03, 2019

Scheer cautions against internal fighting in speech in Conservative heartland

CALGARY - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has dismissed those calling for him to step down after last month's election loss as elites and "talking heads" who know he'll never rel...

Nov 30, 2019

Kenney, deputy PM Freeland meet in Edmonton to find common ground

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland met up in Edmonton to try to find some common ground in a region that shut out the Liberals in the federal elec...

Nov 25, 2019