Jason Markusoff

The Conservative Party convention boasts roughly 2,650 delegates, which doesn’t make this the largest right-leaning political gathering this week in Calgary — or even the biggest on the Calgary Stampede park grounds. That title would belong to Stay Free A... See more

Albertans could be forgiven for expecting certain things from the big political convention coming to Calgary this week, after so much turbulent experience watching them locally in recent years. Fresh in the mind might be the Alberta separatists who came o... See more

A car honked as it passed by the table Julietta Sorensen had set out in the cold January wind. “Not sure if that’s a pro, against or completely unrelated,” said Sorensen, who was braving the weather to solicit signatures for her recall petition against Ca... See more

Calgary emergency rooms are “in a state of critical overcapacity” ahead of the anticipated peak of flu season — and to cope with the surge and wait-room crowding, officials are urging doctors to speed up their decisions on whether to admit patients, accor... See more

Alberta separatist leaders expect to start canvassing in January to get their independence referendum question on the ballot, thanks to the provincial government’s latest legislation to make it easier for them to succeed. Were it not for the United Conser... See more