Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock (BMW) MLA Glenn van Dijken was Rotary’s guest speaker July 22, offering the newly-minted politician an opportunity to get to know some of his constituents a little better.
More than 40 people came out to hear the MLA, who spoke about his background, the importance of volunteering, and […]
Building relationships is going to be the major focus in the immediate future for newly elected Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Glenn van Dijken.
According to Elections Alberta figures the Wildrose Party candidate topped the polls with 7,205 votes, followed by the NDP’s Tristan Turner with 6,233 and Progressive Conservative incumbent Maureen Kubinec with 4,878. […]
Continuing our video coverage from Thursday night’s all-candidate forum, we have uploaded another batch of questions asked of PC Candidate Maureen Kubinec, Wildrose Candidate Glenn van Dijken, and NDP Candidate Tristan Turner.
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Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock PC Candidate Maureen Kubinec, Wildrose Candidate Glenn van Dijken and NDP Candidate Tristan Turner were asked a dozen questions by moderator Simon Boersma who read questions submitted by some of the 150 attendees to the event. […]
The Morinville & District Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club of Morinville joined forces for Thursday night’s All Candidate Forum at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. […]
When the next Alberta general election is called, Tristan Turner will be the NDP candidate in Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock. The party’s constituency nomination meeting took place Mar. 27 at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Turner was the only one who put his name forward by the deadline and became the candidate by acclamation.
While a provincial election isn’t mandated until 2016, it’s widely anticipated that Premier Jim Prentice will call one within the next couple of weeks. […]
If Glenn van Dijken is nominated as Wildrose Party candidate for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the next election he will bring a thoroughly rural perspective to the role. […]
Morinville resident Joe Gosselin has announced he is seeking nomination as the Wildrose candidate for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the next election.
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By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Wildrose MLA and Opposition Finance Critic Rob Anderson visited Morinville Wednesday night, his third public meeting in the constituency to discuss what his party refers to as a Financial Recovery Plan for Alberta. The 90-minute talk at the Morinville Rendez-Vous Centre drew mostly party supporters to hear the former PC MLA speak.
Anderson’s talk criticized the Redford government for what the Wildrose see as mismanagement of revenues, overspending on bureaucracy, and a string of broken campaign and budget promises, including the premier’s pre-election promise of not running a deficit… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Westlock County Councillor Maureen Kubinec ensured Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock remained in PC hands Monday night after garnering 45 per cent of the vote. Kubinec received 7,447 votes, 341 more than Wildrose candidate and former Alberta Report publisher Link Byfield who received 7,106 votes (43 per cent) in the constituency.
Byfield was the frontrunner throughout the evening with a healthy to moderate lead until Westlock and Morinville vote tallies began coming in around 10:30 p.m. … […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Barrhead – Health professional Leslie Penny is once again running for the Alberta Liberals in the general election. The long-time Barrhead resident is currently a Manager of Seniors Health with Alberta Health Services and just received a certificate from the Alberta College of Registered Nurses recognizing 40 years in the nursing profession… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Recently nominated Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock PC candidate Maureen Kubinec has been making preparations for the provincial election; her campaign office in downtown Morinville opened just prior to the writ being dropped Mar. 26, and she’s spent the past couple of weeks making the rounds in Morinville… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – The region’s PC party members went to the polls in Barrhead, Morinville and Westlock Saturday to choose their candidate in the next provincial election. Westlock County Deputy Reeve Maureen Kubinec took the day… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Mayor Lloyd Bertschi announced Tuesday he was throwing his hat into the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock PC Association race. The four-term mayor is hoping to receive the nod from the PC association when they vote Jan. 28 to replace long-serving MLA Ken Kowalski who announced Dec. 9 that he would not seek re-election when the election is called this spring… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Barrhead –Morinville-Westlock PC Association members have chosen their man to run in the next provincial election. MLA and Speaker of the Alberta Legislature Ken Kowalski has once again been chosen by the association as their candidate… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – With a PC leadership race about to ramp into high gear and with more than three decades under his belt as MLA, there has been considerable talk about the prospect of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ken Kowalski’s plans to announce his retirement this August.
But while Twitter tweets have heralded the end of Kowalski’s run in provincial politics, the man himself said the matter is not so cut and dried, nor is it the first time he had been asked the question about his future plans recently… […]
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