Why being boring could work for Rachel Notley
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Alberta election 2019
Jason Kenney’s galling tax proposal to Ottawa: Alberta politics insider
Jason Markusoff reports from the campaign trail: Rachel Notley wins strange praise from a stranger place. And NDP candidates are no longer running campaigns out of their cars.
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What happens when the demand for Alberta oil goes away?
Jen Gerson: Twitter fights about pipeline politics, carbon taxes and culture wars are fashionable. But Alberta needs to think long-term—and not just hope for another boom.
Rachel Notley fought like hell for Alberta, but the province isn’t about to thank her.
The NDP premier embraced the oil industry. There’s no sign yet that it’s enough to deliver her another victory this spring
Alberta has never had a one-term government. Will Rachel Notley’s NDP be first?
The NDP’s improbable rise in Canada’s conservative heartland faces long odds in a spring election
In Alberta, Notley and Kenney are trying to get a little closer
Both leaders hope to shake off the caricatures their rivals have drawn of them and find victory in a more moderate middle
Now the fight to lead Alberta’s united right begins
Both Jason Kenney and Brian Jean are eager to challenge each other to be the dismantler-in-chief of the Alberta NDP government