Beer man Jim Gibbon runs for Edmonton City Council
TweetJim Gibbon, the founder and president of Amber’s Brewing Company, announced this week that he will run for City Council in west Edmonton’s Ward 5. Speaking over the phone this week, the owner of...
View ArticlePolitics with your Folk
TweetFor this political junkie, one of the small highlights of attending Edmonton’s Folk Music Festival each year is flipping through the $5 programme book to sneak a look at the political ads placed...
View Article#yegvote Google Hangout #3 with ActivatED
Tweet On last night’s #yegvote Google Hangout, the third in our series, Ryan Hastman, Mack Male, and I were joined by Aliza Dadani from the group ActivatED. According to their website, “ActivatED is...
View Article#yegvote Google Hangout with Steven Dollansky
Tweet After a week-long break from the world of political writing and social media, I was happy to return just in time for yesterday’s sixth edition of the #yegvote Google Hangout. This week, Ryan...
View ArticleNomination Day: Edmonton civic election official starts today
TweetDedicated citizens across Alberta will gather this morning in town halls and community centres to submit their nomination forms to become official candidates in this year’s municipal elections. In...
View ArticleThe new (and old) faces of municipal elections in Alberta
TweetTomorrow is election day and in counties, municipal districts, villages, towns, and cities across the province, Albertans will cast their votes for mayors, reeves, councillors, aldermen, and...
View ArticleDon Iveson’s win a vote for optimism and smart planning in Edmonton
TweetThere will be plenty of analysis about what last night’s election means for the city of Edmonton. With 132,162 votes – 62% of the vote – Don Iveson earned a commanding victory in the mayoral...
View ArticleBig Money in Edmonton Municipal Election
Tweet$4.35, $19.75, and $5.45 are how much Don Iveson, Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte‘s campaigns spent for each vote received in Edmonton’s October 21, 2013 mayoral election. With the most...
View Articlejosipa petrunic – the liberal party’s next great hope in edmonton-gold bar?
If there was a Liberal Party heartland in Alberta, it would be located in the boundaries of Edmonton-Gold Bar. The east central Edmonton constituency is the longest Liberal held constituency in the...
View ArticleFunding Edmonton’s Downtown Arena, the strange comedy of errors continues.
The strange comedy of errors that has become Edmonton’s Downtown Arena project continued this week as City Council scrambled to fill a $100 million gap in a funding plan they approved months ago....
View ArticleIt’s Official – Don Iveson is planning to run for re-election as Mayor of...
Mayor Don Iveson and 25 other Edmontonians have officially submitted forms expressing their intent to run in Edmonton’s next municipal elections, which are scheduled to take place on Monday, October...
View ArticleEdmonton Election races I will be watching on Election Night
Election Day is Monday October 16, 2017. Voting stations are open from 9:00 am until 8:00 pm. Use the Where to Vote tool to find your voting station and candidate list. Authorized identification is...
View ArticleEdmonton Election Results – A big Iveson landslide and few City Council...
Photo: Don Iveson celebrates his re-election victory with his family (photo: Twitter) As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes – 72 percent of the...
View ArticleSmall money can sometimes go a long way in Edmonton’s municipal elections
Photo: Jon Dziadyk spent $9,950.00 on his campaign and unseated a two-term city councillor who spent $119,937.69. Released this week, the financial disclosures from Edmonton’s municipal elections...
View Articlephoto post: edmonton pride parade 2009.
City Councillors Don Iveson and Ben Henderson show off their tricycle-made-for-two. Edmonton-Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman and Edmonton-Riverview MLA Kevin Taft. Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan and...
View Article12 wards for edmonton in 2010.
Edmontonians won’t notice a difference until next fall, but if City Councillors approve Bylaw 15142: Ward Boundaries and Council Composition Bylaw on June 22, our city will shed the 6-Ward/2-Councillor...
View Articlethe katz group has its big block of cheese day.
I like to believe that most of the things worth writing about in this world have already been covered in an episode of the West Wing. While the topic of this video clip of Big Block of Cheese Day may...
View Articlealberta politics notes 8/06/2010
– A promise is a promise, except if it’s a Carl Benito promise. SEE Magazine and the Edmonton Journal are taking Edmonton-Mill Woods PC MLA Carl Benito to task over not fulfilling his election promise...
View Articleedmonton election 2010: the people in your neighbourhood.
Depending on what part of Edmonton you live in, you have probably noticed the lawn signs beginning to line up on private front lawns and sprawled across City-owned boulevards. While I hear that the...
View Articleedmonton election 2010: election night experience and hope for the future.
As far as municipal elections in Alberta usually go, Monday night was a pretty exciting time to be a political person in this province. After a day of traveling across the City visiting campaign...
View Articlealberta politics notes 2/18/2011
Robbing Peter to pay Paul… …or robbing the Liberals and NDP to pay the Wildrose Alliance. The PC MLA-dominated Legislative committee responsible for allocating funds to Assembly caucuses voted to give...
View Articlepoliticos march in edmonton’s 2011 pride parade.
Tens of thousands of Edmontonians packed the streets of downtown on Saturday for the first major festival event of the summer – Edmonton’s Pride Parade. Held the same day as the City Centre Market and...
View Articlea look at the alberta liberal leadership candidates.
You might be forgiven if you have not paid much attention to the Alberta Liberal Party leadership contest, which is currently under way. The Liberal contest is not as exciting as the Progressive...
View Articlerecommended reading: how the katz group did an end run around the best...
If you read one article today, please read Paula Simons well written column on how billionaire Daryl Katz and the Katz Group were able to score major concessions from the City of Edmonton during their...
View ArticleElection bills give Albertans more democracy, less transparency and...
Albertans could soon be given more opportunities to cast their ballots but with much less transparency about and accountability for who is spending money to influence their votes. The United...
View ArticleBen Henderson nominated as the Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods
City Councillor Ben Henderson has been acclaimed as the Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods. Henderson currently serves as Councillor for Ward 8 and was first elected to City Council in...
View ArticleAlberta is a pretty boring place to spend a federal election
Alberta is a pretty boring place to spend a federal election. Even as the polls shift nationally, there is a good chance the seat total could be the same as the 2019 election: 33 Conservative and one...
View ArticleAlberta matters in this federal election for all the wrong reasons
There’s a chance that the federal election results in Alberta could end up being less than exciting, with the Conservatives winning most of the province’s seats, but there’s no doubt Alberta had an...
View ArticleWhat Danielle Smith said she wouldn’t campaign for in the 2023 election
Smith said she wouldn’t campaign on an Alberta Pension Plan and police force, but it looks like that’s what we’re getting. I want to focus on the lede from this widely shared Canadian Press story...
View ArticleDanielle Smith’s Fundraising Machine
A special weekend episode of the Daveberta Podcast It’s rare that I send out a newsletter on the weekend but I thought subscribers would enjoy listening to a new episode of the Daveberta Podcast we...
View ArticleWhat to make of Mark Carney’s meeting with Danielle Smith
Liberal PM expected to call federal election on Sunday for an April 28 or May 5 vote Prime Minster Mark Carney was in Edmonton yesterday for his first visit since winning the Liberal Party leadership...
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