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More chaos at Alberta Health Services as Athana Mentzelopoulos …
1 day ago · In a statement emailed to AHS staff, physicians and volunteers shortly before the unexpected announcement was made public, Ms. Fong, a former senior executive at the Crown-owned Alberta Investment Management Corp., also said of Ms. Mentzelopoulos, “as she departs from this role, effective today, I want to thank her for all her work during her time and I want to wish her the very best.”
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4 days ago · Rod Sykes, mayor of Calgary from 1969 to 1977, is reported to have died in the past few days. 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 […]
Alberta cabinet ministers Mickey Amery and Mike Ellis to …
Jan 3, 2025 · “Learning about each other’s successes and innovations related to the justice system, including digitization and innovative technology,” according to Mr. Amery, a Calgary lawyer in his life before politics who also holds the title of Attorney General – making him, as certain old-timey political newspaper columnists like to put it, “Alberta’s top cop.”
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 ...
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 […]
The Municipal Government Act already gives the government …
Apr 29, 2024 · In the words of a Global News report at the time, the inquiry “found the council was not following laws, had bad spending practises and biased decision making.”. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). More recently, late last year, the UCP Government fired the mayor, three councillors, and some city officials in Chestermere, a community of 22,000 ...
‘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 ...
Pensions don’t seem to be much of an issue in this election – …
May 21, 2023 · The idea that Alberta should withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan and substitute an Alberta pension plan has been around for more than two decades. Its first public appearance was in the “Firewall Letter” of 2001, addressed to then Premier Ralph Klein and signed by significant figures in the province’s right-wing political community.The most prominent was Stephen Harper, who was later ...