Is an Alberta sovereignty act fight in the works, as the province pushes back against Ottawa’s plan for electricity grids? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s latest battle with the federal government is about two kinds of power: electrical and political. On the electricity side of things, Smith is furious with Ottawa’s push to make Alberta’s power grid net-zero by 2035. Politically…

No one is openly gunning for her job as Alberta NDP leader. But some names are floating around.

The flaws of one-person-one-vote. Jason Kenney likes to say he was toppled by a coup. His complaint does have a sliver of merit. After all, his leadership was brought down by 16,660 members of the United Conservative Party in May 2022 even though, just three years before, the Kenney-led UCP captured a million votes from regular citizens to form a majority government.

Premier Jason Kenney has entered the United Conservative Party race to replace him as leader. Not as a candidate — but as a meddler. Kenney didn’t so much dive as belly-flop into the race this week, with an awkward attack on a proposal from perceived frontrunner Danielle Smith. She is championing a controversial “Alberta Sovereignty Act” that she says would allow…

Premier Danielle Smith. Get used to it. That appears to be where we’re headed after watching the first official leadership debate Wednesday evening in Alberta’s United Conservative Party race to replace Premier Jason Kenney. There might be seven people on the track but Smith seems to be the only one with a steering wheel — and she’s leading everybody in…