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Danielle Smith says husband is an adviser, invited to deepen understanding of industry. As Alberta's transportation minister prepares to unveil a passenger rail strategy this summer, freedom of information documents obtained by CBC News show that Premier Danielle Smith's husband, David Moretta, was invited to three meetings in 2023 about passenger rail and its potential expansion in the province.
Alberta premier supports some ideas proposed in recent Quebec panel report on autonomy. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith would like to have a tête-à-tête with Quebec Premier François Legault about asserting their provincial sovereignty, according to a letter Smith wrote last month. "I see an opportunity before us, as the democratically elected leaders of Alberta and Quebec, to chart a path...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's 2024 was a year of following through on her promises — from health-care reforms to support for the oil and gas industry — even as her opponents fought her ideas. In a year-end interview at the legislature in early December, Smith reflected on a few pressing issues.
Toward the end of the 2015 Alberta election campaign, NDP Leader Rachel Notley summoned her four-member caucus to an Edmonton hotel room with little explanation. "I thought, 'Oh my God, what's happening?'" said David Eggen, who was campaigning to keep a north Edmonton seat. "And she said, 'I think we're going to win.' And that was just the jaw-dropping moment."...
Alberta's affordability and utilities minister says the provincial government did everything it could to prepare for a surge in demand for power that utilities might not be able to meet. "It was a learning experience," Minister Nathan Neudorf told reporters in Edmonton on Monday. "Hopefully, we won't have that experience again." Record-breaking cold temperatures, little sun or wind during times...
Weeks after being relegated to the Opposition benches in the 2019 provincial election, NDP leader Rachel Notley was already spelling out her ambition for 2023 — to defeat the newly United Conservative Party and once again become premier. Notley says her party got "two-thirds of the way" to that goal in the May election when Danielle Smith's UCP won 49 seats to the NDP's 38.