Ex-Calgary mayor, former PM Harper pitch late day endorsements in Alberta election

In a day of last-ditch Alberta election endorsements, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi backed NDP Leader Rachel Notley on Friday while former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper urged voters a second time to step up for the United Conservatives' Danielle Smith. "On the balance of probabilities, the (election) platform for the NDP is better than the platform for the UCP, but that's not the critical thing to make a decision on," Nenshi, with Notley beside him, told reporters in Calgary. "