United Conservative Party AGM 2025: Separatism, Board Elections, and Conservative Policy Shape Alberta's Political Future
The United Conservative Party of Alberta held its 2025 Annual General Meeting from November 28-30 at the Edmonton Expo Centre, drawing over 4,200 party members in what proved to be one of the most consequential gatherings in the party's history. The convention was marked by intense debates over Alberta separatism, closely watched board elections, and the passage of dozens of policy resolutions that will shape the party's direction heading into the 2027 provincial election.
The Separatism Question Dominates Discussions
The most dramatic moments of the AGM came when discussions of Alberta independence took center stage, despite party leadership's efforts to keep the topic of
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McTEAGUE: From backroom deal to boondoggle: This is no way to build a pipeline
The devil’s in the details — why this pipeline deal is a Trojan Horse for Canadian consumers.
Published on: 30 Nov 2025, 10:30 am
Dan McTeague is President of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
As I said in the lead-up to the announcement of this recent Carney-Smith pipeline deal, “the devil is in the details.” And now that I’ve had some time to digest the details in Thursday’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), I will say, the details are positively demonic.
Now, that doesn’t change the fact that I am very much in favor of building out our pipeline infrastructure. Oil and gas are the backbone of the Canadian economy, and they need to get to market.
And pipelines that get those products to tidewater to be shipped abroad, like this one, play a particular role in combatting the “petro-loonie discount,” the 20% to 40% discount our oil trades at, because the US is among our only customers. That creates real ...
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The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern times." According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it's claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a 'little ice age'.
According to the program humans do have an effect on climate but it's infinitesimally small compared with the vast natural forces ...