Danielle Smith
Marlaina Danielle Smith is a Canadian politician, former lobbyist, former columnist and media personality who has served as the 19th premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) since 2022.
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Aug 17, 2026
Center
Her province's separatist debate is the target of online influence campaigns by Russian and US actors, according to new Canadian research.
The Centre view is that Smith needs to clearly reject separatism and foreign meddling, and that her confrontations with Ottawa make Alberta easier for outside actors to exploit.
Aug 17, 2026
Far Left
Danielle Smith leads the Alberta UCP government behind this week's book ban costs, cowboy-hat legal tradition stunts, and conservation failures.
NDP/Green supporters view Smith's culture-war government as authoritarian and wasteful, spending public money on ideology instead of libraries and nature.
Aug 17, 2026
Far Left
The Alberta premier is leveraging the tariff crisis to demand new pipeline approvals and a halt to federal environmental rules.
NDP/Green critics see Smith as the loudest voice for oil-patch expansion, using Trump's pressure to dismantle Canadian climate policy.
Aug 15, 2026
Far Right
Alberta's premier is fighting the federal emissions cap and preparing to use the Sovereignty Act against Ottawa.
PPC praises her willingness to confront federal overreach on energy, though it believes she still stops short of fully challenging the Canadian consensus.
Aug 13, 2026
Far Right
The Alberta premier told the Western Standard that prioritizing skilled worker immigration would reduce the number of temporary residents who overstay their visas.
The People's Party credits Smith for exposing the overstay crisis but criticizes her for still accepting high overall immigration levels instead of the deep cuts the party demands.
Aug 13, 2026
Far Left
Smith is invoking Alberta's sovereignty act to resist federal emissions rules and pressuring Carney to pause net-zero shipping regulations.
Her open defiance of national climate law sharpens the NDP/Green argument that oil wealth should not dictate federal policy.
Aug 12, 2026
Far Right
Alberta's premier is publicly pushing for an overhaul of the federal equalization program that transfers wealth out of her province.
PPC applauds Smith for confronting the fiscal extortion of Alberta and demanding an equalization reform long ignored by both old parties.
Aug 12, 2026
Lean Right
Alberta is facing a backlash over the workplace hazard listing involving anti-abortion images.
Conservatives expect Smith to roll back the rule and defend free speech against occupational health bureaucracy.
Aug 12, 2026
Far Left
In the news for Alberta's conservation failures, oil and gas push, and data centre ads.
Greens see her as a climate denier who puts corporate profit over the environment.
Aug 10, 2026
Lean Left
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is co-target of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs' call to cancel the West Coast pipeline.
Liberals criticize Smith as a fossil-fuel champion who prioritizes corporate oil profits over Indigenous rights and climate action.