Naheed Nenshi says the UCP made him do it.

The former Calgary mayor took the biggest political gamble of any Alberta politician in 2024. Three years after leaving city hall, he decided to run for the leadership of an NDP party he’d never joined or supported.

Success was no sure thing when the word came out that he might try to succeed longtime leader Rachel Notley.

Seasoned party candidates were lining up. Sarah Hoffman, Kathleen Ganley, Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse and Rakhi Pancholi (who later withdrew) all knew the party and its membership far better than Nenshi did.

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But he was on to something. There was deep discontent among centrist and leftist voters with the NDP’s loss in the 2023 election. The party........

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