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Strathmore-Brooks
Strathmore-Brooks was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1997 to 2019. History The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary re-distribution from most of the old electoral district of Bow Valley. The 2004 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the boundaries revised to include a portion of land from the dissolved Drumheller-Chinook electoral district, and losing a small portion of the south-east portion of the district to Little Bow. The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the electoral district completely untouched using exactly the same boundaries as set in 2003. The Strathmore-Brooks electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the Brooks-Medicine Hat, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and Chestermere-Strathmore electoral districts. Bounda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29th Alberta Legislative Assembly
The 29th Alberta Legislative Assembly was constituted after the general election on May 5, 2015. The New Democrats, led by Rachel Notley, won a majority of seats and formed the government. The Wildrose Party, which won the second most seats, formed the official opposition until July 2017, when it merged with the Progressive Conservatives, to become the United Conservative Party, which then became the official opposition. Membership in the 29th Alberta Legislative Assembly Seating plan As of July 2017Official Seating Plan(Retrieved July 19, 2017) As of March 14, 2018 The merger of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives in late July 2017 created the United Conservative caucus, which was recognized by the Speaker's office as the official opposition, among other changes to party affiliations. The seating plan was therefore altered for the fall sitting.Official Seating Plan(Retrieved March 14, 2018) By-elections to the 29th Legislative Assembly Standings changes since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Hale (politician)
Jason Hale (born June 15, 1969) is a Canadian former politician who was an elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Strathmore-Brooks. He was elected in the 2012 provincial election as a member of the Wildrose Party. In December 2012 Hale crossed the floor to join Jim Prentice's Progressive Conservative Party. One month after Derek Fildebrandt announced that he would seak the Wildrose nomination in Strathmore-Brooks, Hale announced that he would not seek re-election. As the local MLA, Hale took the lead for the Wildrose Official Opposition when the XL Foods plant in Brooks was shut down due to contamination. Hale welcomed the takeover of the plant by JBS and called for a full investigation into the causes of the contamination. Hale was born and raised near Bassano, Alberta. Hale, along with his wife and two sons, run a cow/calf operation. He also worked as a consultant in the oil and gas industry before becoming an MLA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arno Doerksen
Arno Doerksen (born January 25, 1958) is a Canadian politician. Early life Doerksen was born in the Town of Bassano, Alberta, Canada and raised in Gem. He spent more than 25 years in farming and ranching before entering politics. He is a purebred and commercial cattle producer and feedlot operator in partnership with his family. They grow alfalfa, grain and oilseed crops on irrigated land in the Eastern Irrigation District. Political career Doerksen won the 2008 provincial election with 75 per cent of the vote in the constituency of Strathmore-Brooks. He was a member of the Private Bills Committee, the Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing Committee, and the Standing Committee on Community Services. Doerksen chairs the Endangered Species Conservation Committee. More information about Arno Doerksen is available from his website aArnoDoerksen.ca. Personal life Doerksen lives with his wife Wanda in Gem, Alberta. They have three sons: Barry, Daniel and Lorin. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypress-Medicine Hat
Cypress-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of Alberta. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive. The rest of the city is part of the Medicine Hat constituency, which Cypress-Medicine Hat surrounds. The constituency borders Saskatchewan to the east and Montana to the south. Clockwise from the Montana border, the district also borders Cardston-Taber-Warner, Little Bow, Strathmore-Brooks and Drumheller-Stettler. Other major towns include Bow Island and Redcliff. The constituency represents Cypress County and the County of Forty Mile No. 8. The MLA for this district is the United Conservative Party's Drew Barnes. He was first elected in 2012 as a Wildrose Party candidate in the 28th Alberta general election. History The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bow Valley (provincial Electoral District)
Bow Valley was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1940, and again from 1971 to 1997. History The Bow Valley electoral district was formed in 1913 from the Gleichen and Lethbridge District electoral districts. Bow Valley would be abolished prior to the 1940 Alberta general election, primarily forming Bow Valley-Empress electoral district, and a small portion added to Edson electoral district. Bow Valley was revived in the 1970 electoral district re-distribution from the Bow Valley-Empress electoral district. In the 1996 electoral district re-distribution, the Bow Valley electoral district was abolished and the territory was divided among Strathmore-Brooks, Drumheller-Chinook and Cypress-Medicine Hat electoral districts. The Electoral Boundaries Commission drafted the report with the intention of the Strathmore-Brooks electoral district retaining the name "Bow Valley". Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Alberta Legislative Assembly
The 26th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from March 1, 2005, to February 4, 2008, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 2004 Alberta general election held on November 22, 2004. The Legislature officially resumed on March 1, 2005, and continued until the fourth session was prorogued and dissolved on February 4, 2008, prior to the 2008 Alberta general election on March 3, 2008. Alberta's twenty-sixth government was controlled by the majority Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, led by Premier Ralph Klein until his resignation on December 24, 2006, after which he was succeeded by Ed Stelmach. The Official Opposition was led by Kevin Taft of the Liberal Party. The Speaker was Ken Kowalski. In the list below, cabinet members' names are bolded; leaders of official parties are italicized. This legislature had the distinction of being addressed by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, to help celebrate Alberta's centennial. Party standin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Bow
Little Bow was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 2019. Throughout its history, this district has been dominated by agricultural activities. Because the area is prone to summer time drought and frequent water rationing, agriculture has been limited to grain crops and cattle ranches. The 2003 BSE crisis, and the subsequent closure of the US border to Canadian cattle, became a major election issue. The district's major communities, Vulcan, Coalhurst, the Siksika Nation, Arrowwood, Picture Butte and Mossleigh provide service centres for area's agricultural and oil & gas industries. History The electoral district was created in the 1913 boundary redistribution from four different districts. It was primarily carved out of Lethbridge District and also took land from the eastern portion of High River, Claresholm and Nanton. The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Knute Oberg (born January 6, 1960) is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly. He is also a physician and business executive. Life and career Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the Alberta Cabinet in 1997 and served numerous posts. Oberg was appointed Minister of Family and Social Services in March 1997. Over the next two years, he oversaw the move of children's services and services for persons with developmental disabilities to community-based delivery. He launched a western Canadian initiative to address Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and implemented an interprovincial strategy to share resources and develop new and better approaches for addressing FAS. As part of the Alberta Children's Agenda, he introduced the Alberta Child Health Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. This riding in south-central Alberta stretches from the Red Deer River in the east to the area around Cremona in the west. Agriculture is the major employer, with retail a distant second. Household incomes, at $53,174, are below the Alberta average. Seven per cent of residents are considered low income. More than two-thirds of the people here were born in Alberta, while seven per cent are immigrants. People of German origin make up nine per cent of the population. More than 96 per cent say their language at home is English, the second-highest rate in Alberta (2001 census). In 2021, National Post columnist Colby Cosh said that the district "might be the single most truculently conservative anywhere" in Canada. History The electoral dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chestermere-Strathmore
Chestermere-Strathmore is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election, and won by Leela Aheer of the United Conservative Party. Geography The district is located east of Calgary, containing the City of Chestermere, the Town of Strathmore and sections of Rocky View County and Wheatland County. Its borders are formed by the City of Calgary to the west, the Bow River to the south, Highway 564 to the north, and RR242, RR 241 west of Namaka, and Siksika 146 to the east. History The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Strathmore-Brooks and Chestermere-Rocky View Chestermere-Rocky View was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildrose Party
The Wildrose Party (legally Wildrose Political Association, formerly the ''Wildrose Alliance Political Association'') was a conservative provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. The party was formed by the merger in early 2008 of the Alberta Alliance Party and the unregistered Wildrose Party of Alberta. The wild rose is Alberta's provincial flower. It contested the 2008 provincial election under the Wildrose Alliance banner, and was able to capture seven percent of the popular vote but failed to hold its single seat in the Legislative Assembly. Support for the party rose sharply in 2009 as voters grew increasingly frustrated with the Progressive Conservative (PC) government, resulting in a surprise win by outgoing leader Paul Hinman in an October by-election. In the fall of 2009 Danielle Smith was elected as leader and by December the Wildrose was leading provincial opinion polls ahead of both the governing PCs and the opposition Liberals. Wildrose's caucus grew to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drumheller-Stettler
Drumheller-Stettler is a provincial electoral district (riding) in Alberta, Canada. The electoral district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The district was created in the 2003 boundary redistribution and came into force in 2004 from the old districts of Drumheller-Chinook and Lacombe-Stettler. The district is named after the towns of Drumheller and Stettler and covers a large rural portion of central east Alberta. It also contains the towns of Cereal, Consort, Hanna, Oyen and Youngstown and Dinosaur Provincial Park. The district and its antecedents have been strongholds for Progressive Conservative candidates in recent decades. The current representative in the district is independent member Rick Strankman, who until January 2019 sat as a member of the United Conservative Party, was first elected as a Wildrose Party MLA in a provincial election on April 23, 2012. Mr. Strankman w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
