Not quite, here's a rundown as of the end of 2016:

British Columbia: Still Christy Clark
Alberta: Danielle Smith, elected earlier that year with a Wildrose minority
Saskatchewan: Still Brad Wall
Manitoba: Still Brian Pallister, though Theresa Oswald briefly served as Premier before his 2015 victory
Ontario: Chris Bentley, having taken over in 2014 following the resignation of Dalton McGuinty and having won the Liberals another majority in 2015
Quebec: Francois Legault, first elected with a minority in 2014 and re-elected with a majority in 2016
New Brunswick: David Alward, re-elected in 2014 with a majority despite losing the popular vote to the Liberals (cc @CanadianTory)
Nova Scotia: Still Stephen McNeil
Prince Edward Island: Wes Sheridan, elected with a majority in 2015 after taking over from Robert Ghiz earlier that year
Newfoundland and Labrador: Lorraine Michael, elected with a minority in 2015

I'm very happy to see Lorraine Michael as Premier of NL
 
Not quite, here's a rundown as of the end of 2016:

British Columbia: Still Christy Clark
Alberta: Danielle Smith, elected earlier that year with a Wildrose minority
Saskatchewan: Still Brad Wall
Manitoba: Still Brian Pallister, though Theresa Oswald briefly served as Premier before his 2015 victory
Ontario: Chris Bentley, having taken over in 2014 following the resignation of Dalton McGuinty and having won the Liberals another majority in 2015
Quebec: Francois Legault, first elected with a minority in 2014 and re-elected with a majority in 2016
New Brunswick: David Alward, re-elected in 2014 with a majority despite losing the popular vote to the Liberals (cc @CanadianTory)
Nova Scotia: Still Stephen McNeil
Prince Edward Island: Wes Sheridan, elected with a majority in 2015 after taking over from Robert Ghiz earlier that year
Newfoundland and Labrador: Lorraine Michael, elected with a minority in 2015

Disappointed that Danielle Smith and Wildrose won out in Alberta. Was Alison Redford still Premier? I'm curious as to the Alberta landscape. Chris Bentley as Premier is cool. Dalton had so many possible successors who either didn't run or resigned during the Liberals time in power that there's a lot of fun to be had there. Alward winning is alright. Not sure what would happen to Gallant. He had the old boys club backing him, and they wouldn't be eager to hand over the leadership to Michael Murphy.
 
Disappointed that Danielle Smith and Wildrose won out in Alberta. Was Alison Redford still Premier? I'm curious as to the Alberta landscape. Chris Bentley as Premier is cool. Dalton had so many possible successors who either didn't run or resigned during the Liberals time in power that there's a lot of fun to be had there. Alward winning is alright. Not sure what would happen to Gallant. He had the old boys club backing him, and they wouldn't be eager to hand over the leadership to Michael Murphy.
Yup, Redford was still Premier and pretty much suffered the same fate as OTL. Since it won't really matter much (i.e. it's not much of a spoiler), here's basically what I was thinking for Alberta:

Premiers of Alberta:
2011-2014: Alison Redford (Progressive Conservative)
-12:
Danielle Smith (Wildrose), Raj Sherman (Liberal), Brian Mason (New Democratic)
2014-2014: Dave Hancock (Progressive Conservative)
2014-2016: Stephen Mandel (Progressive Conservative)
2016-2018: Danielle Smith (Wildrose)
-16 (min):
Stephen Mandel (Progressive Conservative), Rachel Notley (New Democratic), Laurie Blakeman (Liberal)
2018-2022: Naheed Nenshi (Alberta Party)
-18:
Danielle Smith (Wildrose), Ric McIver (Progressive Conservative)
2022-present: Danielle Smith (United Conservative)
-22 (min):
Naheed Nenshi (Alberta Party), Paul Hinman (Reform)

Basically, Smith suffers the same problems with her right-wing caucus as she did IOTL (only now they're in government), so that, combined with conservative vote-splitting, allows Nenshi, having already rallied progressives/moderates under a single banner after taking over the Alberta Party, to win a landslide majority. Smith, having long tried to make overtures to moderates, merges Wildrose with the Progressive Conservatives, but right-wing Wildrose members, angry at this new moderation, revive the Reform Party and, as a result, Smith only manages to win a two-seat victory over the Alberta Party in 2022.

Aside from that, Gallant's still Liberal leader in New Brunswick, and looks likely to win the 2018 election, though Alward has been keeping things competitive particularly after getting Dominic Cardy (NB NDP leader for those unfamiliar) to cross the floor and all but destroy his own party. It doesn't help Gallant that David Coon's Greens are doing surprisingly well, either.
 
As of 2022, how are Quebec politics?
I may alter this, but this is the basic idea for Quebec:

Premiers of Quebec
2013-2014: Pauline Marois (Parti Québécois)
-13 (min):
Jean Charest (Liberal), François Legault (Coalition Avenir Québec), Françoise David & Amir Khadir (Québec solidaire)
2014-2022: François Legault (Coalition Avenir Québec)
-14 (min):
Thomas Mulcair (Liberal), Pauline Marois (Parti Québécois), Françoise David & Andrés Fontecilla (Québec solidaire)
-16: Thomas Mulcair (Liberal), Bernard Drainville (Parti Québécois), Françoise David & Andrés Fontecilla (Québec solidaire)
-21 (min): Pierre Moreau (Liberal), Jean-Martin Aussant (Parti Québécois), Manon Massé & Hans Marotte (Québec solidaire)

2022-2023: François Bonnardel (Coalition Avenir Québec)
2023-present: Pierre Moreau (Liberal)
-23:
François Bonnardel (Coalition Avenir Québec), Manon Massé & Hans Marotte (Québec solidaire), Jean-Martin Aussant (Parti Québécois)

Basically, Charest delays the election a few months into early 2013, with the Liberals doing worse and the CAQ doing better. The PQ screws up their likely re-election as per OTL by focusing too much on sovereignty, a mistake they continue to make in subsequent elections as their supporters shift towards both the CAQ and Québec solidaire.
@True Grit Are Chris Bentley and the Liberals facing the unpopularity that the Liberals are facing in OTL?
Not quite to the same extent, but yeah, most people are assuming they'll be defeated in 2019 by Christine Elliott's PCs (though of course we all know how competent the PCs are at maintaining a lead).
 
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I may alter this, but this is the basic idea for Quebec:

Premiers of Quebec
2013-2014: Pauline Marois (Parti Québécois)
-13 (min):
Jean Charest (Liberal), François Legault (Coalition Avenir Québec), Françoise David & Amir Khadir (Québec solidaire)
2014-2022: François Legault (Coalition Avenir Québec)
-14 (min):
Thomas Mulcair (Liberal), Pauline Marois (Parti Québécois), Françoise David & Andrés Fontecilla (Québec solidaire)
-16: Thomas Mulcair (Liberal), Bernard Drainville (Parti Québécois), Françoise David & Andrés Fontecilla (Québec solidaire)
-21 (min): Pierre Moreau (Liberal), Jean-Martin Aussant (Parti Québécois), Manon Massé & Hans Marotte (Québec solidaire)

2022-2023: François Bonnardel (Coalition Avenir Québec)
2023-present: Pierre Moreau (Liberal)
-23:
François Bonnardel (Coalition Avenir Québec), Manon Massé & Hans Marotte (Québec solidaire), Jean-Martin Aussant (Parti Québécois)

Basically, Charest delays the election a few months into early 2013, with the Liberals doing worse and the CAQ doing better. The PQ screws up their likely re-election as per OTL by focusing too much on sovereignty, a mistake they continue to make in subsequent elections as their supporters shift towards both the CAQ and Québec solidaire.

Not quite to the same extent, but yeah, most people are assuming they'll be defeated in 2019 by Christine Elliott's PCs (though of course we all know how competent the PCs are at maintaining a lead).

I'm gonna say that the PCs despite being lead by Christine Elliott, will blow their lead and Bentley wins another majority.
 
I can't believe there was a True Grit TL going on during my absence; had I known, I would have come back sooner. I just read through the whole thing and I'm quite enjoying it. As always, I like that you take familiar elements and then give them enough spin to be fresh and exciting without losing plausibility; a particularly good example is the Topp-Prentice-Rae elections, because they're all leaders we've seen before but never in that combination. It's also great to see how you often you resist the fun, crowd-pleasing moments, like how you've tanked Mulcair's career twice, not even allowing him the dignity of a comeback in provincial politics. Likes, subscribed, and so on. I look forward to future updates!
 
Something I've wondered about for a while - why is Joyce Murray seen as more of a progressive voice within the Liberal Party, given that she had been part of Gordon Campbell's provincial government in BC? This isn't a criticism of the TL - I gather that she has this image IRL too and even once called for cooperation with the NDP. But I had assumed that the overlap between the Federal Liberals and the BC Liberals tended to originate from the more right-leaning "business Liberal" faction.

Don't worry about; the BC Liberals are definitely a weird breed, given that they're mostly a coalition between federal Liberals and the Conservatives designed largely to keep the NDP out of office, but with BC being one of the more left-wing provinces there's still a fair amount of progressivism in the BC Liberals. For instance, Campbell introduced the country's first (IIRC) carbon tax, pushed for electoral reform, etc., so I'd say that for Murray herself the reason she's seen as progressive is that in both TTL and OTL she's seen as more aligned with that wing of the party than the conservative-wing and people like Kevin Falcon, Chuck Strahl, etc. But that's more of a guess than anything.

Hi, hello, these posts are a month and a half old now, but as said I just discovered this TL, and explaining the wild world of BC politics is always fun, so here I am.

True Grit has the bulk of it. I would add that organizational circumstances ensure that the BC Liberals always have a sizeable progressive faction— because the NDP has a shared membership, left-leaning federal Liberals who want to get involved in provincial politics have to join the BC Liberals instead. So even though the leadership is dominated by Business Liberals, it's a bit more complicated the further down you go.

But for Joyce Murray in particular, you have to take into account the period when she was in the BCLP, and the circumstances in which she joined. Murray was first elected in 2001, alongside Campbell's first term— which is to say, before the BCLP had fully cemented itself as a conservative party, and when it was a bigger tent than it is now (2001 saw the Liberals win 77 out of 79 seats). More importantly, though, is that Murray was specifically recruited (by Campbell himself) as a progressive voice. Lastly, she was given great freedom as environmental minister, and her tenure was generally lauded by environmentalists. So it's not an image she just came by haphazardly.
 
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