Alberta’s premier is trying to take on Ottawa, but there’s a fight in her backyard and in her party that she can’t afford to ignore, writes Graham Thomson.

Her combative, gaslighting persona was put away for the election campaign. It was back this week.

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.