Alberta’s UCP Heads to the Far Right

November 6th, 2023 - Premier Danielle Smith, Take Back Alberta, United Conservative Party

Alberta’s UCP Heads to the Far Right

The party’s weekend convention showed the power of Take Back Alberta’s social conservative messaging.

About Graham

Graham Thomson is an Edmonton-based political commentator.

He is best known as a writer for the Edmonton Journal where he spent 25 years, almost all of them helping readers make sense of Alberta politics. Graham quit The Journal in September of 2018. But he did not quit the news media.

He is still writing about politics, still analyzing, still opining, still thanking politicians for providing so much humour.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham has two daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandchildren, and one Wheaten Terrier.