The Byfield Factor: a late conservative legend’s son is the UCP’s man in Edmonton, and a behind-the-scenes player in Alberta’s election

It was cold the day of Ted Byfield’s funeral, so cold the bagpiper’s lips froze to the mouthpiece. It was late December 2021, and around 80 people had gathered at Edmonton’s Holy Cross Cemetery in -35 C temperatures to bid farewell to a legend of Canadian conservatism. Attendance was capped at indoor funerals due to Alberta’s COVID-19 public health orders, but a who’s who of Alberta conservative political life had nonetheless turned out to watch pallbearers carry Byfield’s casket, draped in the Alberta flag, to its resting place. Read More