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5 days ago · Busted in June 2021 by a mystery photographer as he boozed it up with a group of cronies in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions on a government building’s controversial rooftop patio in Edmonton, premier Jason Kenney announced his fatuous anti-equalization “referendum” at a news conference a week later in hopes of saving his foundering political career.
Alberta NDP now has more than 85,000 members, party says; Gil …
May 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 …
Prime minister announces two Alberta Senate appointments; UCP …
Aug 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 […]
Two new polls Wednesday say UCP and NDP are close to …
May 18, 2023 · Well, at least it would be a political crisis, not a constitutional one, which would relieve the rest of the country of having to pay much attention to our lingering misery.. Let me explain: Two new polls released yesterday – one by Ipsos and the other by Angus Reid Institute – show almost exactly the same thing with slightly different numbers.
Where’s Naheed? Alberta’s New Democrats need to know!
Aug 13, 2024 · Alberta New Democrats, even many long-time party supporters who knew and respected candidates with a track record inside the party like former health minister Sarah Hoffman and former justice minister Kathleen Ganley, were relieved NDP members had chosen a leader who they expected would aggressively promote an alternative to the Smith Government’s determination to dismantle pubic health care ...
‘Not one shred of evidence’ bill’s arbitrary measures are needed; …
May 26, 2024 · Does Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver have any idea how many Albertans could be denied the right to vote in the next general election because of the United Conservative Party’s planned changes to provincial voting rules in Bill 20, the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2024?. A demonstrator at Saturday’s Enough is Enough rally in Edmonton tallies up some of the UCP’s more ...
Alberta’s Legislature shudders back to life this afternoon – what …
Oct 30, 2023 · The headline on the government’s news release Friday about the inaugural session of the 31 st Legislature, the first since the May 29 election, says MLAs will reconvene “with legislation geared towards providing financial protection and securing Albertans’ interests.”. Now there’s a heavily coded phrase if ever I heard one that ought to send Halloween chills up and down your spines ...
New poll by Abacus Data shows Alberta NDP breaking ahead of …
May 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.
Justice minister reverses course, says funding will be extended …
Jul 4, 2024 · Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government late yesterday reversed course on its decision to terminate its agreement with Legal Aid Alberta, promising in a statement from Justice Minister Mickey Amery to extend the current funding arrangement while negotiations for a new deal continue.. NDP Justice Critic Irfan Sabir (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).