UCP and NDP Presidents Rob Smith and Bill Tonita running in municipal elections The introduction of municipal political parties in Calgary and Edmonton has generated a lot of confusion and consternation in this election but lost in the noise of the big city debate is that the presidents of Alberta’s two main provincial political parties are on ballots in county elections outside urban centres. United Conservative Party President Rob […]
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Monday is municipal election day in Alberta: My thoughts on the candidates in my town https://albertapolitics.ca/202....5/10/monday-is-munic

What’s with the Alberta post-secondary funding panel’s detour into anti-DEI crusading?  https://albertapolitics.ca/202....5/10/whats-with-the-

Breaking the ATA is in the official UCP policy book Breaking up the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red Deer. In defending the policy to make membership optional, the UCP constituency association from Innisfail-Sylvan Lake wrote that the ATA is “supporting many controversial progressive ideologies that […]
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Teachers used to be part of the PC Party big blue tent Teachers used to be an important part of the big blue voter coalition that made the old Progressive Conservative Party an electoral juggernaut from 1971 to 2015. There was even a former ATA President, Halvar Johnson, who served as a PC MLA under premiers Peter Lougheed and Don Getty and later as a cabinet minister in Premier Ralph Klein’s government. The relationship […]
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