Alberta Election: What UCP and NDP Are Promising

UCP Leader Danielle Smith (L) and Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The writ will drop for the Alberta election on May 1, and voters will head to the polls on May 29.

But the two top rival parties, the governing United Conservative Party (UCP) led by Danielle Smith and the former governing Alberta NDP led by Rachel Notley, have already been in campaign mode for months.