In Ward Metis, which includes the southern half of Caterina’s current ward, Ashley Salvador and Liz John-West have filed their nomination papers. Stephanie Kusie has been nominated as the Conservative Party candidate in Calgary-Midnapore, a riding she has represented since 2017. Velthuizen is Press Secretary to Minister of Service Alberta Nate Glubish, and previously worked for the United Conservative Party and Wildrose Party caucuses. Bearspaw, Ermineskin and Whitefish Lake First Nations – Landowners and the Ermineskin and Whitefish Lake First Nations have filed separate requests for a judicial review of the decision, which they argue was made without legally required consultations. “By a series of advertisements, the coal buying public are being mislead, deceived and defrauded,” Hugg argued. First elected in 2019, McPherson is currently the only non-Conservative MP from Alberta. Hugg argued that advertisements published since the commission commenced investigations were misleading, deceiving and defrauding the public. Alberta Environment and Parks spokesman John Muir said the department routinely monitors selenium at 89 waterways across Alberta. Another former city councillor, Michael Oshry, is also said to be assembling a mayoral campaign team, and former councillor and Member of Parliament Amarjeet Sohi is rumoured to be considering a run for mayor. Kevin Van Tighem is a conservationist, former Superintendent of Banff National Park, and author whose books include Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta. Draper has represented Ward B on the Edmonton Public School Board since 2013. If it feels like you have read this last part before, it is because I have basically written this exact same thing on every Budget Day since I launched this website 16 years ago. In northeast Edmonton, Conservative MP Ziad Aboultaif has been nominated to run for re-election in Edmonton-Manning. We’ve got your back. Livingston recently served as Chief of Staff to Environment & Parks Minister Jason Nixon and was executive assistant to Justice Minister Verlyn Olson and Seniors and Community Supports Minister Greg Melchin. The new budget also allocates $2 million to create an Environmental, Social and Governance Secretariat to stem the tide of divestment from the oil sands. While Krushell never ran for provincial political office, she has past ties to the now defunct, on Conservatives nominate Stephanie Kusie in Calgary-Midnapore, Aidan Theroux running for NDP nomination in Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Aidan Theroux, who ran in the 2019 federal election as the, on Episode 67: Senator Paula Simons and Alberta Unbound, on Edmonton MPs Heather McPherson and Ziad Aboultaif nominated to run in next federal election. Keep up the good work, Janis. In addition, my thoughts and opinions change from time to time. It is unclear why Alberta requires two energy war rooms that appear to duplicate the work of the Department of Energy, the Department of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, the Alberta Energy Regulator’s communications department, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and the Invest Alberta crown corporation. Aboultaif was first elected in 2015. But the community response in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood gives a glimmer of hope that ordinary people are standing up and supporting good people in politics who speak out against hate and discrimination. Alberta had a two-per-cent sales tax in 1936. “The government of Alberta urgently requests that you immediately investigate the activities of those persons who are misleading the public with regard to Alberta coals and endeavouring to reap a quick and unjustifiable profit out of the prejudices which they are arousing by making statements to the public regarding the very matters which are subject to this investigation,” Hugg continued. Meanwhile, the UCP has focused heavily on criticizing government spending through the MacKinnon Report and the growing list of reports from international management consulting companies. And a number of new candidates have announced their plans to run for City Council: Gino Akbari, Gabrielle Battiste and Tony Caterina have announced their plans to run in in the central Edmonton Ward O-day’min. Caterina is a four-term City Councillor from northeast Edmonton who is running in the new downtown Ward because his current Ward 7 is being heavily redistributed between the new Ward Metis and Ward tastawiyiniwak (ᑕᐢᑕᐃᐧᔨᓂᐊᐧᐠ). Caterina will be running in the area vacated by two-term Councillor Scott McKeen, who announced this month that he will not be seeking re-election. And thatâs just what we, We’d love to hear from you. But this weekend we saw a bit of hope on a local level. He placed second with 16 per cent of vote in 1998 and third with 19 per cent in 2001. As it enters its second year of its term as government, we could now be seeing the UCP try to lay the groundwork for its re-election campaign in 2023. on Keep up the good work, Janis. Salvador is an urban planner and President and Chair of YEGarden Suites. (Rocky Mountain Today, Feb. 2, 2021), Kainai-Blood Tribe – The Kainai-Blood Tribe will be launching a legal challenge against the Government of Alberta over its decision to unilaterally rescind the 1976 Coal Policy. Kevin Van Tighem joins the Daveberta Podcast to discuss one of the biggest issues in Alberta politics today – the expansion of open-pit coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. B. Hugg, even urged the Commissioner to move the public inquiry’s activities into a private setting so that the publicity would not damage Alberta’s interests. She pointed to the exploration rush after it was revoked. It is also an acknowledgment that cheerleading the slashing of public services has become politically unpalatable. She left municipal politics in 2013, becoming President of Lending Assist. This marks the second time in the last year that the opposition NDP have out-fundraised the governing UCP, suggesting Albertans are voting with their pocketbooks and credit cards. John-West is the Regional Service Director for WJS Canada and was a candidate in the 2017 municipal election. He later served on city council from 2004 until he was defeated in 2007 by a little known rookie candidate by the name of Don Iveson. Today it is easy to ask why the office was located in Winnipeg of all places, but when the office opened in 1920, the Chicago of the North was the third largest city in Canada, a centre of trade and commerce, and a major stop in the Canadian railway. Edmonton Public School Board Trustee Michelle Draper announced she will not be seeking re-election. Jonathan Koehli, McIver’s current Chief of Staff for the dual role, will now become Chief of Staff to Copping in Labour & Immigration. It took about a year but Alberta’s United Conservative Party government finally pivoted away from its “fiscal reckoning” rhetoric in exchange for a more kinder and gentler tone. The striking miners were brutally repressed by “special constables” hired by the largest mining companies in the Red Deer River Valley. 2017 Jason Kenney to 2021 Jason Kenney: No More Billion Dollar Boondoggles! Councillors will discuss an official business resolution next Tuesday (Feb. 9) which, if adopted would have the mayor write to Premier Jason Kenney and the Ministers of Environment and Energy requesting the policy be reinstated. The broad and deep budget cuts that Toews was said to be lobbying for are probably only put on hold until next year and the UCP is still moving forward with plans to privatize large swaths of the health care system and layoff more than 11,000 health care workers.