Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at [email protected]. Dave ...

United Conservative Party President Rob Smith is running as a candidate in Mountain View County council’s Division 6 and ...

That’s what big city mayoral candidates Andrew Knack and Jeromy Farkas got on October 10. Two polls commissioned by CBC and ...

Schools are empty this week as more than 51,000 Alberta teachers in public, Catholic and Francophone schools launched the ...

Teachers used to be an important part of the big blue voter coalition that made the old Progressive Conservative Party an electoral juggernaut from 1971 to 2015.

Breaking up the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red ...

Private schools in Alberta get 70 per cent per-student funding from the provincial government, which is the highest of any province in Canada. That tops BC, which funds private schools between 35 and ...

Smith promised in a televised address last year that the UCP government would build 130 new schools by 2031, which is a lot, but with the student population of the province growing by more than 33,000 ...