the wildrose’s new hired gun.
TweetThe Wildrose Alliance is bolstering their staff in preparation for the next provincial election. Recent hire William McBeath left his position as Director of Operations for Minister Diane Finley...
View Articlenominations update – edmonton.
TweetAs the contests to replace the leaders of the governing Progressive Conservative Party and the Opposition Liberal Party and new Alberta Party grab the media spotlight, political parties have been...
View Articlein alberta politics, what once was old is new again.
TweetPremier Alison Redford is expected to introduce new fixed-election date legislation in the postponed fall sitting of the Assembly, expected to sit in late November. In 2009, I wrote: “In April...
View Articlereturn of benitomania. will carl benito run as an independent in the upcoming...
TweetA reader of this blog spotted these two signs yesterday morning on the corner of 34th Avenue and Mill Woods Road in the constituency of Edmonton-Mill Woods. Progressive Conservative MLA Carl...
View Articlealberta election day 2: health care, balanced budgets, and benitomania.
TweetCampaigning in the same constituency yesterday, it is interesting to wonder what Premier Alison Redford and Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith would have said to each other if their paths had...
View Articlea wildrose government will need a real opposition.
TweetDespite questioning climate science and refusing to remove one candidate who railed against a policy to protect sexual minorities in public schools and another who claimed his skin colour as a...
View ArticleA short roundup of municipal election races across Alberta
Tweet With a feeling of excitement in the air, Nomination Day came and went today as residents across Alberta officially became candidates in this year’s municipal election. With nearly 120 candidates...
View ArticleThe new (and old) faces of municipal elections in Alberta
TweetTomorrow is election day and in counties, municipal districts, villages, towns, and cities across the province, Albertans will cast their votes for mayors, reeves, councillors, aldermen, and...
View Articleliberals organizing in glenora.
“rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated” – Dr. David Swann (borrowed from Mark Twain) Trying to gauge how rough this last week was for the Liberal Party in Alberta, I attended last night’s Town...
View Articlealberta politics notes 5/29/2010
– Naheed Nenshi is in the race for Mayor of Calgary. Mr. Nenshi joins MLA Kent Hehr, Alderman Ric McIver, Alderman Joe Connelly, and former MLA Jon Lord. Read CalgaryPolitics.com for up to the minute...
View Articlealberta politics notes 8/06/2010
– A promise is a promise, except if it’s a Carl Benito promise. SEE Magazine and the Edmonton Journal are taking Edmonton-Mill Woods PC MLA Carl Benito to task over not fulfilling his election promise...
View Articlestaging a political comeback in alberta.
With a number of former MLAs having declared their intentions to seek their party candidacies in the next election (David Eggen, Rick Miller, Weslyn Mather, and Mo Elsalhy), I thought it would be...
View Articlejohn carpay to run wildrose, liberals target carl benito.
The Wildrose Alliance has attracted its first candidate who I would describe as at least having “medium-profile” presence among Alberta’s political wonk class. Current Constitution Foundation lawyer...
View Articlealberta politics notes 9/19/2010
Edmonton Mill Woods Liberals The Liberal Party will nominate its first candidate for the next election on October 2 in Edmonton-Mill Woods. According to an email from constituency President Paula Stein...
View ArticleJanis Irwin running for NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Daniel...
Photo: More than 200 people packed into the Bellevue Community Hall tonight to support Janis Irwin’s bid for the NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood. Janis Irwin launched her campaign for the...
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