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Trudeau Unveils Plan for First Nations Education and Opportunity
SASKATOON, SK – A Liberal government will establish a renewed partnership with First Nations that ensures high-quality education and economic opportunity, both of which are vital to our long-term economic growth, said the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, today. “Canada only succeeds when we all succeed. Indigenous Peoples are the fastest…
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Wildrose Clear Choice to Defend Jobs in Calgary-Foothills Byelection
CALGARY, AB (August 13, 2015): Voters in Calgary-Foothills face an important choice between leadership that will stand up for their jobs, or more ideologically driven experiments from the NDP and career politicians, the Wildrose said today. The comments were made by Wildrose Leader Brian Jean as he introduced Wildrose Calgary-Foothills candidate Prasad Panda. “Voters…
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Prasad Panda Wins Calgary-Foothills Nomination, almost 800 Wildrose Members Vote
CALGARY, AB – Yesterday, Wildrose members selected Prasad Panda as their nominated candidate for the Calgary-Foothills byelection. “I’m incredibly pleased with the choice our members made tonight in selecting Prasad Panda as our candidate for Calgary-Foothills,” Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said. “This byelection vote will be a choice between more ideologically driven experiments to…
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Alberta Party announces candidate for Calgary-Foothills Byelection
By Meagan Wade CALGARY, AB – At a press conference (yesterday morning), leader Greg Clark officially announced the Alberta Party candidate for the Calgary-Foothills by-election, Mark Taylor. “Mark is an upstanding Calgarian with a passion for making our community better. We’re proud to have him as a member of the Alberta Party, and excited about…
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Calgary-Foothills Progressive Conservative Association Announces Byelection Candidate: Blair Houston
Calgary, August 11, 2015 – Today, the Calgary-Foothills Progressive Conservative Association announced that local businessman Blair Houston will be the candidate in the byelection scheduled for September 3. “My family and I are committed to serve the constituents of Calgary-Foothills for the next four years and beyond,” said Houston. “Our residents want and deserve…
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End Electoral Games, Scrap Government Spending Announcements During Byelection: Nixon
CALGARY, AB (August 11, 2015): Today, Wildrose Shadow Democracy and Accountability Minister Jason Nixon called on the NDP to keep their promise and commit to not publishing government spending announcements during the Calgary-Foothills byelection. In response to a series of government announcements last October, including then-Education Minister Gordon Dirks announcing funding for two modular…
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Making Sense of Election 2015 – Introduction
By E.P. Whinters Unless you are an economics or political science geek and this is your chocolate, my guess is that most Albertans are exhausted from election rhetoric and attack ads. I know I am. And yet, we start again to face into an unprecedented lengthy campaign leading to the federal election on October 19th.…
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Jean calls on Premier Notley to Repudiate Anti-Alberta Posturing by Mulcair’s NDP
EDMONTON, AB: Wildrose Official Opposition Leader Brian Jean released the following statement in response to a position taken by star NDP candidate Linda McQuaig that Alberta’s oilsands should be left in the ground so that Canada can hit its climate change targets: “While the federal NDP have a long tradition of campaigning against Alberta…
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Alberta Liberals Ready for Sept 3rd Foothills By-Election
Calgary, AB (August 6, 2015): Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann says the Alberta Liberals are ready to give the people of Calgary-Foothills real representation and will campaign hard in the upcoming by-election. “This will be third time in one year that the people of Calgary-Foothills will be sent to the polls,” observed Swann. “It’s time…
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Early byelection shows Notley has more faith in Federal NDP than her own budget
By Meagan Wade, The Alberta Party Calgary, AB – August 6, 2015 – An August by-election allows the provincial NDs to piggyback on the Federal NDP campaign rather than run on their own budget later in the fall, said Alberta Party leader Greg Clark. They would rather double up their resources and work with their Federal counterparts…
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Disaster Recovery Program $413 Million Under Budget, More than Half of Surplus came from Unspent Flood Money
By Meagan Wade, Alberta Party Calgary: The Disaster Recovery Program was $413 million under budget last year, giving the province ample room to fund the worst snow disaster in Calgary’s history, says Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark. “The 2014/2015 Municipal Affairs Annual Report shows the Disaster Recovery Program was underspent by $413 Million last year,”…
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Jean Readies Wildrose for Snap By-Election Call
EDMONTON, AB: Wildrose Official Opposition Leader Brian Jean reacted (Thursday) with disappointment to the snap by-election that has been called for the riding of Calgary-Foothills. “The NDP government has known for months that the Wildrose nomination for Calgary-Foothills was set for August 15,” Jean said. “On top of that, doubling down on elections while…
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By-election in Calgary-Foothills: Another chance to have a Green elected to the Legislature
*Since this was written a by-election was called and will be held September 3rd. By Janet Keeping On election night, when he saw that the PCs had been reduced from a 71-seat majority government to a 10-seat third party status, Jim Prentice resigned as leader of the PC party. He also resigned as MLA…
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Writ issued for provincial by-election in Calgary-Foothills
Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Glen Resler, confirms that a Writ was issued to administer a by-election to be held in Calgary-Foothills. “The Returning Officer and Election Clerk have been appointed and are ready to manage and conduct voting in the electoral division”, said Resler. Election Day is on September 3, 2015. Canadian citizens who have…
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Assembly of First Nations National Chief Says the Federal Party Leaders Debate Shows First Nations Priorities Matter and Require Greater Focus in Federal Election
OTTAWA, August 6, 2015 /CNW/ – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde said that tonight’s debate amongst the leaders of the federal political parties was an opportunity for all leaders to explain how the Government of Canada would work to close the gap in the quality of life between First Nations and Canada…
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