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…

Look out, Canada, here comes a reinvigorated Danielle Smith. Or as Premier Smith put it in her victory speech Monday, “Hopefully the prime minister and his caucus are watching tonight.” Smith’s statement wasn’t just a shot across the Liberal government’s bow but a promise — a threat, really — to immediately start a fight with Ottawa over the proposed introduction of…

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…

This week, the campaign came to Edmonton — and more than 350 supporters came out to greet Smith and hear her inflammatory rhetoric on everything from the federal government to freedom of speech to the pandemic

Her aggressive moves in the UCP leadership race, such as proposing the Alberta Sovereignty Act, is setting off a race to the bottom.