There are 87 days until municipal election day in Alberta and Edmonton’s sleepy mayoral race is beginning to take shape. With ...

To celebrate 20 years of Daveberta, I’m happy to offer free subscribers a 20 percent discount on an annual paid subscription ...

Ralph Klein I was born in Edmonton in 1983 and the first Premier I remember being aware of was Ralph Klein. Having grown up during the Klein-era, I have a different perspective of those years than ...

The fall session of the Alberta Legislature ended last week and MLAs will now spend the next few weeks working in their constituencies until the Assembly returns in early 2016. The Assembly passed ...

Eighty-six years ago, in 1938, Alberta Premier William Aberhart staged an invasion of Saskatchewan politics by using the Alberta Social Credit Party’s organization and the levers of the Alberta ...

If there was a Liberal Party heartland in Alberta, it would be located in the boundaries of Edmonton-Gold Bar. The east central Edmonton constituency is the longest Liberal held constituency in the ...

The winners of the 1998 Calgary Board of Education election (Calgary Herald, Oct. 16, 1998) The series was published in the weeks after Smith won the Wildrose Alliance Party leadership in 2009. Here ...

Is Premier Danielle Smith a separatist? Is the UCP a separatist party? The biggest difference between today’s Alberta separatist push and past efforts is that today’s most vocal separatists are ...

Deciphering what happens in Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills could be interesting The three by-elections happening on June 23 could have a big impact on Alberta ...

Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel looks a lot like a UCP re-election tour Alberta is getting a bad deal and it’s always Ottawa’s fault. That’s Premier Danielle Smith ’s key message in a 6 minute and ...

New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Daveberta Substack. We also delve into Pierre Poilievre’s future as leader of the Conservative ...