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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.
Assailing UCP’s sham consultations, Public Interest Alberta plans to ...
Jan 8, 2025 · Don’t expect to get much openness about the UCP Government’s so-called public consultations under the dome of the Alberta Legislative Building (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). When it comes to developing sweeping policy changes or building provincial budgets, Alberta’s United Conservative Party ...
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 ...
The Alberta Bill of Rights Amendment Act, 2024, otherwise known …
Oct 30, 2024 · Now that we have before us an actual copy of the United Conservative Party’s first bill of the fall 2024 sitting of the Legislature, the new and improved Alberta Bill of Rights with secret sovereignty sauce, serious commentators are bound to start commentating seriously about it.. Peter Lougheed, premier of Alberta in 1972 when the aspirational original Bill of Rights was passed (Photo ...
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 […]
‘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 ...
Alberta’s Legislature shudders back to life this afternoon – what …
Oct 30, 2023 · The headline on the government’s news release Friday about the inaugural session of the 31 st Legislature, the first since the May 29 election, says MLAs will reconvene “with legislation geared towards providing financial protection and securing Albertans’ interests.”. Now there’s a heavily coded phrase if ever I heard one that ought to send Halloween chills up and down your spines ...