EDMONTON - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says it will hold Alberta Premier Alison Redford to her promise to end transition allowances for departing politicians.
Here's a look at some comments relating to Alberta Election, the day after the PCs won a majority.
The Alberta Progressive Conservatives scored their 12th consecutive majority on Monday night. The Liberals lost the title of Official Opposition to the Wildrose Party, which tried to form the first non-Conservative government in the province since 1971. Here is the Alberta election 2012 by the numbers.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has offered his congratulations to Alberta Premier Alison Redford, who clinched a 12th consecutive majority government for the Alberta Progressive Conservatives Monday night.
Danielle Smith says Albertans decided the Wildrose wasn't ready to lead the province just yet, thinking twice after the party suffered some "self-inflicted wounds" in the dying days of the campaign.
Alberta’s Progessive Conservatives have survived the biggest scare of their four decades in power and will head up a 12th consecutive majority government.
The Alberta Liberals suffered a serious blow in Monday's provincial election, losing four of the eight seats it held when the vote was called and the title as official Opposition.
The four major party leaders will take their place in the Legislature after winning their ridings in the Alberta election.
Alberta had the strongest election turnout in a generation last night, with almost 57% of eligible voters casting ballots.
The Mayor of Calgary says he is excited to work with Alison Redford.
Premier Alison Redford has led her party to a majority government in the 2012 provincial election. It was an interesting race to watch in Calgary, with lots of excitement for voters and political junkies.
As the Progressive Conservative party won another majority government in Alberta, most Edmonton ridings went to the PCs.
While Albertans voted for a Progressive Conservative majority in the legislature, it appeared they had the same idea for candidates running in the senate race.
After spending the last few weeks learning about the democratic process, researching the party platforms, hosting candidate forums and debating the future of Alberta, elementary and high school students across the province cast their ballots in a mock election.
Here’s some of the information you need to know heading into election day in Alberta:
There are 13 candidates standing for election as Alberta’s next potential senator.
Alberta hasn’t had a provincial election this exciting for decades, and we have the ability to cover that story like never before thanks to the online tools at our disposal. Those two things should make for a rivetting election night on the Global Alberta websites
Since 2009, Danielle Smith and her Wildrose team have taken a sputtering right-wing movement and moulded it into a populist machine now challenging the Progressive Conservatives' 41-year hold on power.
CALGARY - Premier Alison Redford reminded Albertans one last time that the future of the province's economy and its reputation on the world stage are at stake as they head to the polls Monday to elect a new leader.
A barbeque invite is at the center of a controversy that's brewing in north Edmonton, forcing Elections Alberta to step in and investigate.
Here's a glimpse at what the leaders were doing on their final day of campaigning and what some of you had to say on the day before Alberta's historic vote.
CALGARY — For Albertans accustomed to sleepwalking through their provincial elections, the last four weeks of the 2012 campaign has provided a sudden, jarring wake-up call.
CALGARY — Alberta's four main political parties headed into a frantic final weekend of campaigning in the closest election in decades, seeking to highlight to the province's 2.3 million voters what makes them distinct.
Check here for the latest results from Edmonton in the 2012 Alberta provincial election.
Here are the latest results from Calgary in the 2012 Alberta provincial election.
Check here for riding results from the 2012 Alberta provincial election, for ridings outside of Calgary and Edmonton.
A ballot boo-boo in Calgary is being investigated by Elections Alberta.
Global News has compiled a list of each party’s platform in relation to improving health care in the province:
Here's a look at some of the provincial election news and reaction online today, April 20th.
The Wildrose party has filed a complaint with Elections Alberta and the RCMP after hearing reports that so-called robocalls have been made to voters to turn them against the party ahead of Monday’s election.
The status of Alberta’s envoy to Asia became a campaign issue again Thursday with unconfirmed reports that Gary Mar had been cleared of any wrongdoing following an investigation ordered by Progressive Conservative Leader Alison Redford.
Danielle Smith, Raj Sherman, Alison Redford and Brian Mason at CBC's leaders debate
Lineups were reported across the province Thursday, as many Albertans came out to vote in advanced polls ahead of Monday's election.
Here's a look at what was happening online today, April 19 2012, in regards to the Alberta election.
If you're busy, out of town, or fear long lines on Election Day voting in an advance poll might be your best bet.
Liberal leader Raj Sherman says “it is time for Albertans to say enough is enough” when it comes to intolerant remarks made by Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose candidates.
PC leader Alison Redford appeared on Global Edmonton’s Morning News Thursday, addressing how the party has changed over the past several decades, and her reaction to controversial comments made by other candidates running in this election.
As the provincial election battle intensifies between the two parties on the political right, people who might have been considering voting for one of the left-leaning parties could resort to strategic voting.
Mayor Stephen Mandel called on Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith Wednesday to “clearly refute” comments her party’s candidates made about race and homosexuality.
LACOMBE — With polls showing Tory support declining significantly in their traditional bastion of rural Alberta, both leaders of the front-running Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties heightened their pitches to farmers and rural communities Wednesday.
Take a look at some of the best of what was said about the Alberta election on Twitter today.
Following harsh criticism that she was cancelling interviews and – along with her Wildrose party candidates – becoming increasingly inaccessible to media, leader Danielle Smith pre-tapes an interview with Global News.
Wildrose candidate apologizes for controversial comment
Here's a sample of what was said about the Alberta election today on Twitter:
Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason making a campaign stop in Lethbridge to announce plans to bring a provincial renewable energy research centre to the city, if he’s elected.
In light of Wildrose candidate Allan Hunsperger’s blog comments, and the heated reaction that followed, we’re taking a look back at some other controversial comments from Alberta politicians.
Here is what was the hot topics on Twitter regarding the Alberta election campaign:
Alberta Party leader Glenn Taylor is asking Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith to remove Allan Hunsperger as a candidate after a controversial blog post written by the pastor was exposed.
Here are some highlights of the story that took Twitter by storm on Sunday.
University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach prepared a bingo game ahead of the provincial election leaders' debate, in which viewers could mark a box every time the politicians uttered energy-related phrases like "cap and trade" and "access to markets."
The Wildrose claims to be the party of free speech but has little credibility when some party members are muzzled by a $1,000 “good conduct” bond, says Thomas Lukaszuk, the PC candidate in Edmonton-Castle Downs.
EDMONTON - Alberta’s oilsands and their environmental legacy — perhaps the single issue that most defines the province’s economy and relationship with the world — has been largely absent from political debate since the provincial election was called, observers say.
More than one-third of Albertans who watched Thursday’s debate felt that Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith won, an Ipsos Reid/Global TV/CORUS online survey found.
The leaders of Alberta’s four main political parties engaged in a spirited debate on Thursday night.
The four leaders of Alberta's largest political parties are going head to head tonight in one of the province's most anticipated election debates in decades. Watch all the excitement live here.
Albertans are heading to the polls April 23 and for the first time in a long time the race is a tight one.
After two weeks trading verbal jabs from afar, Alberta's political leaders will finally get a chance to confront one another face-to-face in what many feel could end up being the main event of the provincial election campaign.
The closest election race in two decades will play out on live television Thursday night as leaders of Alberta’s four main political parties square off in the only leader’s debate.
The leaders’ debate on April 12 is shaping up to be the most exciting in decades, and it will be covered unlike any other Alberta election in history.
Here's a roundup of some of what's been said about the Alberta election on Twitter on Wednesday - a lot of it centered around the Leaders' debate!
The Parkland Institute report ‘Delivery Matters’ has taken a closer look at the cost of private health care delivery, focusing on an example in Calgary.
Here's a roundup of some of what's been said about the Alberta election on Twitter today.
The provincial election race is tightening up, according to a new poll that puts the Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives in a statistical dead heat with the vote less than two weeks away.
Progressive Conservative Leader Alison Redford says she is worried about the tone of the current election campaign after a doorstep altercation involving one of her Edmonton candidates on the weekend.
Here's what was creating election talk on Twitter Monday, April 9
Thomas Lukaszuk, MLA candidate for Edmonton-Castle Downs and Alberta Education Minister, was campaigning in Edmonton's north-end Saturday afternoon, when he was allegedly assaulted.
Here's what made news on Twitter this Easter weekend.
Conventional political wisdom says the Conservatives need a firm grip on just one of the two big cities — Calgary or Edmonton — and a solid base in rural Alberta to win an election.
Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith left open the possibility Friday that the issue of abortion funding could come forward through a citizen-initiated vote.
In the fifth of our series on what each party’s platform would mean to Edmonton, we look at the centrist Alberta party.
Here's what was making news on Twitter Good Friday from the campaign trail.
Our "Capital View" series continues Thursday with a look what a Liberal government could mean for Edmonton.
Here's what was generating buzz on the election as discussed on Twitter.
After decades in power, could Alberta's Progressive Conservatives be voted out in favour of another right-wing party?
Campaign signs in Calgary are being vandalized in a number of communities.
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith won't say where she stands on the controversial issue of conscience rights, but says her party would set up a court system to handle complaints.
The Edmonton Public School Board will hold a forum on education at 7 p.m. on April 4.
Take a look at what the Twitterverse was talking about regarding the Alberta election campaign.
Albertans will be going to the polls this spring and that means there will be a lot of political analysts wading in on the topics of the day, but Global Edmonton wants a different viewpoint.
If you think the provincial election campaign is being fought on doorsteps, in town halls and during debates - think again.
Here's what was being said about the election on Twitter for Tuesday April 3, 2012
If you could ask the next premier of Alberta one question, what would you ask? Here's your chance.
Every day this week, we will be asking each party leader what it will mean for Edmonton if their party is in power after the provincial election. "The Capital View" starts with the Progressive Conservatives.
Take a look at some of the social media buzz as week 2 of the Alberta election campaign got underway.
EDMONTON - The Wildrose party pledged Monday to return 20 per cent of surplus oil and gas revenues to Albertans, a move that harkens back to the $400 “Ralph bucks” given out in 2006.
The first week of the Alberta election campaign is looking more like an American one, as it's been filled with accusations and personal attacks. But the question is - does the drama entice people to pay attention to the political scene or just turn them off?
Alberta Premier Alison Redford says the staffer who mocked Wildrose leader Danielle Smith for not having children is gone.
Day 6 of the provincial was a big one on Twitter after a comment made by a Tory staffer sparked a controversy.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has given Conservative MPs permission to pick sides in current and upcoming provincial elections in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec.
Here's what was making news on Twitter on Day 5 of the campaign trail
A move is underway to get more young people to vote in the upcoming provincial election.
Calling her decision regarding MLA compensation a mistake, Alison Redford says all PC MLAs will have to pay back money received from a committee that never met for four years.
Here's what was making news on Twitter Thursday from the campaign trail.
Ever since the writ was dropped on Monday, thousands of signs have popped up across the city as candidates desperately try to win over voters. But is the strategy working?
Health care is the top priority for all Albertans -- particularly for undecided voters -- heading into the April 23 election, says an Ipsos poll released to Global.
The Ipsos poll that showed support for the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties tied also shows that Albertans are evenly divided on who would make the best premier -- but many remain undecided on that front.
Check out what had people buzzing online on Day 3 of the Alberta election campaign.
Take a look at some of the social media buzz was on Day 2 of the Alberta election campaign.
Headquarter signs are up. The campaigning is ready to begin—and predictions are already being made.
EDMONTON - An Ipsos poll taken in the days leading up to Monday’s election call shows the Progressive Conservatives and the Wildrose party tied with the support of 38 per cent of decided voters.
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford dropped the writ Monday on an election campaign between two right-centre heavyweights who both promise to build bridges with Ottawa and not tinker with the oilsands.
Take a glimpse at what was said on Twitter today as the writ dropped to start Alberta's next provincial election campaign
EDMONTON - The three winners of Alberta’s senate election will have to wait exactly one year for a possible senate appointment — and they will have big shoes to fill.
Who do Albertans intend to vote for, and what are the issues most important to them? Global News will have some answers on Tuesday, March 27, with poll results from Ipsos.
It seems as though Bill 2 will not pass unless Premier Alison Redford delays an election call.
Global News has obtained a poll conducted just before the PC caucus made its decision for MLAs sitting on a no-meet committee to return 6 months of pay.
Progressive Conservative MLAs are being forced to return their committee pay, retroactive to when Alison Redford became Premier six months ago.
The ruling Conservatives stunned opposition parties Wednesday and cut short debate on the controversial Education Act, all but ensuring the government’s flagship bill won’t pass before a spring election.
Today's Twitter roundup includes the new Wildrose bus, election timing, attack ads, education and more.
EDMONTON - Alberta Wildrose party critic Rob Anderson is already known for trying to get under the premier's skin - now he's using her parking spot.
A Wildrose MLA is calling for the Premier to fire the Minister of Education after comments Thomas Lukaszuk made on a conference call.
Alberta may be in election mode sooner than originally thought.
The Wildrose unveiled their campaign bus on Monday and it began trending right away.
Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook exploded on Monday, after the Wildrose party unveiled its new election campaign bus.
Provincial party leaders on the Morning News In the week of October 3 - 7th, the leaders of four of Alberta's provincial parties were guests on the Global Edmonton Morning News. Hear what Alison Redford, Danielle Smith, Brian Mason and Raj Sherman had to say about Alberta politics and the future of our provinc
On Sunday, McIver announced he will run for the progressive conservative nomination in Calgary-Hays.
The former Morning News anchor has announced he will run for the Wildrose party in the new riding of Chestermere – Rocky View.
EDMONTON – Another long time Tory MLA is calling it quits when the next election is called in the spring.
University of Alberta political scientist Ian Urquhart is the first centre-left contestant in Alberta’s Senate nominee election.
Speculation is heating up that Albertans will soon be heading to the polls.
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