Conservatives spar for safe Alberta ridings
While the epic battle between Rob Anders and Ron Liepert in Calgary-Signal Hill was entertaining to watch, preparation for the next federal election has sparked nomination contests in ridings across...
View ArticleMonday morning candidate nomination updates in Alberta
The Progressive Conservatives held their first “Super Saturday” on Feb. 21, 2015, during which contested nominations were held in seven constituencies. The handful of contested PC nominations have been...
View ArticleThursday Morning Candidate Nomination Updates from Alberta
With reports that the Conservatives may call the next federal election as soon as next week, resulting in an potential eleven week election campaign, parties are still nominating candidates in Alberta....
View Article75 days until Election Day – Tuesday Evening Nomination Update from Alberta
Three days into the 2015 federal election, parties are still nominating candidates in Alberta’s thirty-four ridings. Here are the latest updates to the growing list of candidates: Calgary-Midnapore:...
View ArticleFederal Election Digest | Alberta Edition
While most Albertans are enjoying the last few weeks of summer, here are some of the more interesting and bizarre news stories from the federal election campaign trail in our province.
View ArticleTuesday Morning Federal Election Updates from Alberta
Some of the latest from the federal election campaign trail in Alberta, including Tom Mulcair's visit to Lethbridge and Calgary today.
View ArticleFour candidates running for Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Forest Lawn
Four candidates have been approved to seek the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Forest Lawn on August 29, 2019. Already declared candidates Andre Chabot and Amrit Rai Nannan are seeking the...
View ArticleLiberals, NDP and Greens scrambling to fill candidate slates in Alberta ahead...
Photo: federal candidates Jasraj Singh Hallan, Nirmala Naidoo, Joe Pimlott, and Gurinder Singh Gill With a federal election expected to begin sometime in the next nine days, some of Canada’s major...
View ArticleTrudeau coming to Edmonton on the first day of the federal election
Photo: Justin Trudeau at a rally to launch Amarjeet Sohi’s re-election campaign in July 2019. The federal election is expected to be called tomorrow and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to be...
View ArticleMore federal candidate nomination updates from Alberta
Photo: Campaign central in Edmonton-Centre: Randy Boissonnault’s campaign office (in an old bank) and James Cumming’s campaign office (in an old car dealership) are kitty-corner to each other on Jasper...
View ArticleThree more Conservative MPs nominated to run in next federal election
With it becoming increasingly likely that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could call a federal election in the next few months, the federal Conservative Party has been quietly nominating candidates in...
View ArticleAll 33 Conservative MPs acclaimed in Alberta. Liberals have contested...
All 33 incumbent Members of Parliament representing the Conservative Party from Alberta have been acclaimed as candidates to run in the next federal election. The only exception to the wave of...
View ArticleGeorge Chahal running for Liberals in Calgary-Skyview, Rick Peterson out of...
Calgary City Councillor George Chahal announced this week that he is withdrawing his bid for re-election in the October municipal elections in order to run as the federal Liberal Party candidate in...
View ArticleLiberals nominate Leslie Penny in Peace River-Westlock, Khalis Ahmed runs for...
The first full day of the 2021 federal election has passed. I spoke with CBC Edmonton on Edmonton AM and RadioActive about some of the races to watch in Edmonton in the federal election. I will have a...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh is coming to Alberta. Derek Sloan is running in Alberta?
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh will be the first party leader to visit Alberta in this election campaign when he stops in Edmonton on August 19. Singh will be spending his whole day in...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh leverages Jason Kenney’s unpopularity during full-day stop in...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh spent today campaigning in Edmonton-Griesbach with local candidate Blake Desjarlais, who the party believes is in a position to defeat Conservative candidate Kerry Diotte....
View ArticleGreens, Maverick and NDP tied with 18 federal candidates in Alberta, so far.
Just a quick federal candidate nomination update this morning: The Green Party has nominated Judson Hansell in Calgary-Nose Hill, Gianne Broughton in Edmonton-Manning, and John Redins in St....
View ArticleNDP nominate 4 more federal election candidates in Alberta, Nigel Logan wins...
Another quick federal election candidate nomination update this morning: Nigel Logan defeated Satbir Singh in a contested online nomination vote in Edmonton-Mill Woods. Logan was the NDP candidate in...
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