🇨🇦🌾🏔️ Proud Canadian and proud Albertan. Writing and podcasting about Alberta politics and elections since 2005.
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
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🗳️😎 I’m tracking candidate nominations for Alberta’s next provincial election.
✅ Here’s the list: daveberta.substack.com/p/candidates...
🗳️😎 I’m tracking candidate nominations for Alberta’s next provincial election.
✅ Here’s the list: daveberta.substack.com/p/candidates...
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report.
Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...
BREAKING:
Water not Coal (aka Corb Lund's petition) says it has reached the signatures required under the citizen intiative act.
If signatures are counted and approved, it would theoretically lead to an 11th referendum question in Alberta this fall.
NEW: Corb Lund says he expects Alberta's government to add his proposed coal mining ban to October's referendum ballot "precisely as it’s on the signature sheet.”
It would certainly add a different flavour to the premier's recent referendum-maxxing.
www.readtheorchard.org/p/water-not-...
Corb Lund says he's not worried about industry's "heavy duty PR campaign."
Somerset Residents Association President Kyle Campbell is the first candidate to enter the Alberta NDP nomination in Calgary-Shaw ahead of the expected by-election.
daveberta.substack.com/p/rebecca-sc...
Jason Markusoff
Rebecca Schulz resigns, UCP and NDP set nomination dates for Calgary-Shaw by-election. UCP drops separatist-backed candidate from race.
daveberta.substack.com/p/rebecca-sc...
Courtney Theriault
At his retirement party, in front of half the Press Gallery past and present, the great Bob Fife announced that my friend Mercedes Stephenson will succeed him as Ottawa Bureau Chief of The Globe and Mail. #media
Jeremy Appel 🍉
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
Updated: Alberta watchdog to investigate Edmonton police after judge alleges obstruction of justice in child homicide case
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
