Local News
Council approves advance voting dates for fall election
Ensuring as many Morinville residents as possible can vote in this fall’s Municipal General Election is the aim of measures adopted by Town Council at its May 25 meeting. […]
Election 2010
Morinville News
Alan Otway first candidate to file for Morinville Council election
Alan J. Otway has become the first to declare as a candidate in Morinville’s Town Council election coming up in October. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: Voter not happy with Morinville advance polls
My mother and I voted on Oct 14th. There were three poll desks set up at the Rendez Vous Centre. For most of the time we had to wait, two of them had only one or two people at them while the third had 14-16 people waiting in line. […]
Local News
Division 2 Candidates make final pitch at Meet & Greet
The three candidates in the Sturgeon County Division 2 By-Election were at a Meet and Greet event held at the Cardiff Golf and Country Club on Thursday night co-hosted by the St. Albert and Morinville District Chamber. […]
Local News
Meet the candidates: Morinville-St. Albert
In the Alberta provincial election taking place April 16, Morinville residents will be voting for the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Morinville-St. Albert, created in 2017 following a recommendation by the Electoral Boundaries Commission. […]
Morinville News
Chamber hosting All-Candidate’s Forum
The Morinville and District Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the St. Albert Chamber to hold an All-Candidate’ forum on Tuesday, April 9 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Cardiff Hall (55320 Range Road 251, Sturgeon County). […]
Columns
National Column: Surprising takeaways from Quebec’s vote
by Chantal Hebert To fully measure the electoral earthquake that left Quebec’s once-dominant parties in shambles on Monday, consider that […]
Local News
Gawreluck seeking NDP nod in Morinville-St. Albert
Shawna Gawreluck has announced her intentions to run for the NDP nomination in the new Electoral Division of Morinville-St. Albert.
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Local News
Lawrence Giffin running for Morinville Council
During the last municipal election in 2013, Lawrence Giffin was unsuccessful in his bid to win a seat on Morinville’s Council. During the 2017 election, however, Giffin is hoping to turn that all around. […]
Columns
National Column: One year on: Promises, what promises?
Much celebration – for the most part justified – is attending the first anniversary of Justin Trudeau’s election victory. Twelve months later, polls elicit no buyer’s remorse. Many voters who did not support Trudeau last year are on balance happy he won. […]
Columns
National Column: Year after election call, “this is more than a honeymoon . . .”
OTTAWA-It was a year ago when Justin Trudeau, then leader of the third-place Liberals, marched in Vancouver’s pride parade. […]
Columns
National Column: Red wave swamps Tories – and catches NDP in its wake
Canada’s progressive majority got its act together on Monday and ushered Stephen Harper out with a vengeance.
In the process, they brought their own resolution to the problem of vote splitting on the left of the Conservatives, steamrolling the NDP to hand Justin Trudeau the first Liberal majority victory in 15 years.
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Columns
National Column: Fighting politics of fear in PM’s backyard
The most passionate pushback on Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s twin hot-button election issues is coming from his own backyard.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s outspoken criticism of the Conservative leader’s court appeal on the issue of niqabs at citizenship ceremonies and the stripping of citizenship from convicted terrorists in many ways pulls back the curtain on the Alberta that elected him as mayor of its largest city and handed a huge provincial majority to New Democrat Rachel Notley. […]
Columns
National Column: Trudeau passes a key test on foreign policy
As we head into the final sprint of a marathon election campaign, Monday night brought two surprises.
Justin Trudeau, whose juvenile musings on foreign policy had cost him dearly in the past, delivered his best performance at a debate confined solely to foreign policy.
And our national security, our place on the world stage, the value of Canadian citizenship, our relations with our biggest ally and our responsibility to help those fleeing war and persecution delivered the most passionate and animated moments of the 2015 election campaign. […]
Columns
National Column: Niqab issue a Tory boon
by Chantal Hebert There is no consensus as to which of the five federal leaders – if any – won […]
Columns
National Affairs Column: House of Harper needs infusion of fresh voices
The problems inside Stephen Harper’s campaign are real and they are deep.
They stem as much from the team around him in 2015 as the ghosts of architects of victories past who are no longer there for the Conservative leader. […]