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Jan 10, 2025 · Rod Sykes, mayor of Calgary from 1969 to 1977, has died. During his three consecutive terms in office, James Rodney Winter Sykes put in motion major projects that continue to benefit Alberta’s largest city, among them development of the iconic Calgary Tower, Calgary’s downtown convention centre, and the city’s sprawling light-rail transit system.
If Justin Trudeau takes a ‘walk in the snow,’ how will Alberta’s UCP ...
Dec 18, 2024 · Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre (Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, Wikimedia Commons). And if Mr. Trudeau surprises everyone and asks the Governor General to call an election, the apparently inevitable ascent of Mr. Poilievre to the PMO would potentially be even worse news for the separatists in Ms. Smith’s office, if not for the ones expected to show up momentarily in Quebec City.
Grant Notley left a greater mark on Alberta than his position as …
Oct 19, 2024 · The Canadian Encyclopedia quotes his friend Howard Leeson, author of Grant Notley: The Social Conscience of Alberta, describing the young MLA.“Throughout Grant’s career there is a consistency, a devotion to the rights of the underprivileged, the disadvantaged, the ‘little guy’ in society, that cannot be completely explained by electoral opportunism.”
Alberta pulls plug (again) on regional planning – a big win for the ...
Nov 26, 2024 · The Edmonton and Calgary regional metropolitan boards were formally established in 2017.. Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, who tried to restore some sanity to regional planning in Alberta (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). And it even seemed to be working for a while, even though the Sprawl Cabal – the term is thought to have been coined by former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi – hated it ...
Another little flaw with Bill 20: It’s not just bad law, it’ll probably ...
May 7, 2024 · The backlash was so fierce the government rolled out Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver a second time to promise to introduce some amendments – presumably to settle down the rural critics who are usually more friendly to the government.. As St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron told the CBC, nobody really believes that Mr. McIver’s promise of meaningful consultations will turn out to be very ...
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 […]
The Municipal Government Act already gives the government …
Apr 29, 2024 · In the words of a Global News report at the time, the inquiry “found the council was not following laws, had bad spending practises and biased decision making.”. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). More recently, late last year, the UCP Government fired the mayor, three councillors, and some city officials in Chestermere, a community of 22,000 ...
‘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 ...
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Jan 7, 2025 · Message to Alberta Health Services’ new interim chief executive officer and to whomever follows him as CEO: “Don’t let the revolving door hit you on the way out!” How many chief executive officers has AHS had since premier Ed Stelmach’s Progressive Conservative Government promised in 2008 ...