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Prime minister announces two Alberta Senate appointments; UCP …
WEBAug 31, 2024 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced two long-anticipated Alberta appointments to the Senate of Canada this morning. Kristopher Wells of St. Albert is a post-secondary educator and champion of Alberta’s 2SLGBTQI+ community; Daryl Fridhandler is Calgary lawyer with longstanding ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. The PM’s news release didn’t provide a lot of information […]
New poll by Abacus Data shows Alberta NDP breaking ahead of …
WEBMay 14, 2023 · Still, the Abacus results yesterday do run counter to the findings of another recent poll by Mainstreet Research, which said Saturday it was in the field on the same dates talking to 1,338 adults.. Mainstreet had the UCP ahead by 6 points, at 45 per cent compared with 39 per cent for the NDP.
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WEB4 days ago · Danielle Smith announces performative changes with little legal significance to ‘Alberta Bill of Rights’. by David Climenhaga September 25, 2024. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith generated a huge amount of virtual ink yesterday yakking about her planned amendments to Alberta’s Lougheed-era Bill of Rights, passed by the Legislature in 1972 ...
Alberta NDP now has more than 85,000 members, party says; Gil …
WEBMay 13, 2024 · “This leadership race is an historic moment for the Alberta NDP,” Ms. Freistadt said in the Opposition party’s news release. “Voters from all walks of life and all regions of the province joined the Alberta NDP because they are excited to support our party in forming the next government.”
Despite UCP efforts to tilt the playing field, progressive mayors are ...
WEBOct 19, 2021 · Despite the best efforts of Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government to tilt the playing field steeply in favour right-wing candidates, voters in both Calgary and Edmonton elected progressive mayors yesterday. Amarjeet Sohi, a soft-spoken former bus driver and trade unionist who was once a political …
Buoyed by overwhelming leadership approval vote ... - Alberta Politics
WEBJun 7, 2021 · Acting like someone with a serious chance of returning to the Premier’s Office in 2023, Alberta New Democratic Party Leader Rachel Notley received a 98.2-per-cent approval vote in the Opposition party’s leadership review Sunday. The former Alberta premier set out a hopeful vision of how her next government would “transform Alberta into the greatest powerhouse […]
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WEBApr 8, 2021 · Peace River MLA Dan Williams, a former Kenney aide in Ottawa (Photo: UCP Caucus). Anything’s possible from the bunch that came up with the Alberta Energy War Room and its campaign to protect us from the Bigfoot Family, but it’s hard to see how the UCP Caucus would benefit from airing its dirty laundry in public.. It’s more likely the premier was simply bowing to an unpleasant inevitability.
NDP raised more cash in fourth quarter and all of 2022 than UCP ...
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · Yesterday’s results show the NDP ahead by more than a million dollars in donations in the final three months of last year, with contributions totalling $3.3 million, compared with the $2 million raised by the UCP.
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WEBOct 18, 2021 · Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Yes, Mayor Nenshi wrote, Calgary (and the rest of Alberta), may be facing “five simultaneous crises: a public health pandemic, a mental health and addiction challenge, economic dislocation, a climate emergency, and a reckoning on the issue of equity: generational equity, anti-racism, and reconciliation.”