Davis Hay

Sep 9, 2024 | socialistalternative.ca | Simon Schweitzer |Allie Pev |Amanda Woods |Davis Hay

The conservative Saskatchewan Party is heading to its fifth election victory, even after 17 years of misrule. The Sask Party led by Brad Wall, “the demon barber of the prairies,” defeated the NDP in 2007. Over the years the government has carried out a fairly standard conservative austerity agenda of low corporate taxes, resistance to federal climate change measures, privatizing some of the province’s remaining public crown corporations and liquidating the Wheat Pool.

Jun 7, 2023 | socialistalternative.ca | Davis Hay |Bill Hopwood |Ray Goerke

Home Canada Just over a year ago, the NDP was in front of the United Conservative Party (UCP) in every opinion poll, with an average lead of over 10 percent. Yet on May 29, the UCP won a majority of the votes (52.6 percent), and seats in the poll that matters: Alberta’s election. In 2020 and 2021 the UCP was hated, and its factions were fighting each other. The then-leader Kenney had zig-zagged on public health policy throughout the most acute periods of the COVID pandemic.

May 2, 2023 | socialistalternative.ca | Davis Hay |Bill Hopwood

Home Canada After a few years of turmoil, Alberta faces a dangerously close election on May 29. The reversal of the deep hatred for the United Conservative Party (UCP) that gripped the province is astonishing. Replacing Premier Jason Kenney (the hated elitist) with Premier Danielle Smith (quietly, a former corporate lobbyist, but loudly, a reactionary right-populist) meant a second chance for the UCP.