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WEBSep 18, 2024 · by David Climenhaga September 6, 2024. Former Alberta NDP environment minister Shannon Phillips announced on social media today she is joining a policy advisory firm with Conservative political advisor Ken Boessenkool and his Liberal equivalent Tyler Meredith. The firm is to be called Meredith, Boessenkool & Phillips.
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.
It’s never too early to panic! UCP introduces bill to extend its term ...
WEBMay 10, 2024 · “With natural disasters like wildfires, drought, and floods more likely to occur in the spring and summer months, moving Alberta’s election date from May to October just makes sense,” said Justice Minister Mickey Amery, who was also trotted out at the news conference along with the Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, Forestry Minister Todd Loewen, and Emergency Services Minister Mike Ellis.
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.”
Buoyed by overwhelming leadership approval vote ... - Alberta …
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 · Having opted Tuesday for a return to restrictions on some business and social activities to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the face of virulent mutations of the coronavirus, Premier Jason Kenney immediately faced a full-blown rebellion yesterday by 15 members of his United Conservative Caucus in the Alberta Legislature, including the Speaker of the […]
Despite UCP efforts to tilt the playing field ... - Alberta Politics
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 …
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.