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WEBSep 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. All three are smart …
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.
Support for Freedom Convoy in Alberta was an inch wide and an …
WEBOct 17, 2022 · “Sizeable majorities of Albertans felt the Freedom Convoy took its protest too far,” the paper also says, and 47 per cent of Albertans answered that the Trudeau government did the right thing by invoking the Emergencies Act.. By contrast, indicators of support for the Convoyers’ activities were low – 2 per cent indicated they donated money, and pro-and con dinner table discussions, by ...
There will be only one by-election in Alberta before 2023, and it …
WEBOct 8, 2022 · Meanwhile, there will be no election in a riding within the city of Calgary that’s already been without an MLA for a month.. That electoral district’s MLA, former Kenney Government Cabinet minister Doug Schweitzer, announced in May he would not seek re-election in 2023 then went ahead and quit on Aug. 7.. Mr. Schweitzer said he was resigning to spend more time with his family.
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 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 […]
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 …
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WEBNov 5, 2021 · Alberta’s United Conservative Party introduced new election financing legislation yesterday that appears likely to allow big money and dark money to start flowing back into provincial politics as well as restricting the free speech rights of groups that disagree with the government. So it seems on brand for …
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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 […]