daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: josipa 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 province, having elected Liberal MLAs since the 1986 election. Represented by popular Alderman Bettie Hewes from 1986 until 1997, Gold Bar’s current MLA […]

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daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: liberal party tries to raid alberta party staff by promising job and nomination.

Outgoing Liberal Party executive director Corey Hogan and Liberal Caucus strategist Jonathan Huckabee offered Alberta Party provincial organizer Michael Walters a job as their party’s executive director, sources close to both parties have told this blogger. The offer was made over the phone earlier this week. Sources say that Mr. Walters, the nominated Alberta Party […]

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daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: what’s next for raj sherman and the alberta liberals?

What kind of leader will Raj Sherman be? This is a tough question to answer. As Edmonton Journal columnist Graham Thomson somewhat dramatically described yesterday: Sherman – energetic, intelligent, charismatic – could prove to be a political white knight riding to the Liberals’ rescue. Or Sherman – inexperienced, mercurial, impetuous – could yet prove to […]

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