A few days ago, United Conservative Party leader Danielle Smith decided that with an election looming she'd only give each outlet 1 question instead of the previous standard 1 Q & 1 followup: https://tnc.news/2023/04/17/notley-kicks-reporters-out/

NDP leader Rachel Notley used this to attack Smith as "hating democracy" or whatever, and bragged at a press conference today she was "happy to take any questions."

A bit of a wrinkle though, 1st she refused to take questions from a reporter for independent outlet the Western Standard, claiming they were "homophobic": https://web.archive.org/web/20230418041839/https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/watch-notley-says-ws-is-homophobic-hateful/article_ec5434a8-dd51-11ed-b516-cb29c1e7f866.html

At least he was able to attend, at the same time ex-Rebel News reporter Keean Bexte was refused entry & removed by police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jEDTCTfqUU

Rebel's current reporter was also denied: https://www.rebelnews.com/rebel_news_reporter_gets_booted_from_ndp_presser

https://twitter.com/UCPWarRoom/status/1648082793266843649

WOAH👀 Must Watch 👇 @RachelNotley latest press conference goes off the rails fast when she refuses to answer reporters.

I checked out the MSM news tonight to see how they covered it- missed CBC as 6pm news was replaced w hockey. Global didn't cover it at all, while CTV & CityTV didn't mention it in their opening over more important news like someone saw a wolverine! They both party mentioned it- they covered her calling WS "homophobic" but 0 mention of the 2 reporters being denied.