Category: Alberta cabinet

Taxpayers’ Group Calls on Alberta Premier to Shrink Cabinet Size Following UCP Re-Election

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to form a smaller cabinet to demonstrate fiscal responsibility after her United Conservative Party (UCP) government won re-election on May 29. In a June 1 news release, Kris Sims, Alberta director of the CTF, suggests that if Smith selects a smaller cabinet, she will…


Former Alberta Cabinet Minister Turned Independent Senator Elaine McCoy Dies

OTTAWA—Sen. Elaine McCoy, who sat as an Independent from the day she was appointed to the upper chamber, has died. McCoy died Tuesday in Ottawa. She was 74. Born in Brandon, Man., McCoy began her career in politics in Alberta in the 1980s when she ran in the provincial riding of Calgary West to replace…