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  CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Parties
The CCF grew from a coalition of farm, labour and socialist associations and became a party in 1932.
In 1961, it was reborn as the New Democratic Party, and was led by Grant Notley from 1968 to 1984.
The Alberta Alliance was formed a year after the 2001 election, in response to what its founders saw as a move away from the right by the governing Conservatives.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/parties   (1406 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Web -- Alberta Party Parties
Alberta’s inception as a province in 1905 heralded the birth of the Conservative Party of Alberta.
In 1968, the party elected Grant Notley as leader, and he was the lone New Democrat in the legislature for much of the Lougheed era.
The party advocates the preservation of life in all its diversity and the practices of conservation and sustainability.
www.mapleleafweb.com /election/alberta/albertaparties.htm   (1652 words)

  
 Alberta Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta Party Political Association, known in its short form as the Alberta Party, began as an alliance of the Social Credit Party of Alberta, Western Canada Concept, and the Heritage Party of Alberta in 1986.
Recently Alberta Party delegates have been present at major Alberta Alliance Party functions, such as the annual convention on May 28, 2005, and the leadership convention on November 19, 2005.
The Alberta Party has invited Paul Hinman MLA and Alberta Alliance Leader and Lavern Ahlstrom the Alberta Social Credit Party Leader to speak at the Alberta Party annual convention in Red Deer with the hopes of fostering new cooperation between right of centre parties to oppose the Alberta Progressive Conservatives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_Party   (439 words)

  
 Alberta Alliance Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was registered on October 25, 2002, and its founding convention was held on February 14-15, 2003, in Red Deer.
Unlike the Reform Party, the founders of the Alberta Alliance intended to form a very active party, and many members of the Alberta Alliance undoubtedly hoped the new party would be seen as the unofficial provincial wing of the Canadian Alliance.
The party was excluded from Global Television's leaders debate because it had not elected any members in the 2001 election, which was held before the party was founded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_Alliance_Party   (1199 words)

  
 cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alberta also enjoyed the highest personal income growth and lowest unemployment rate in Canada, as well as very low inflation.
In 2005, Alberta's economic growth is expected to moderate to a still-robust 3.7%, as energy prices recede from their recent highs.
Alberta will remain a full-employment economy, with the province's unemployment rate expected to average 4.3% from 2005 through 2008.
www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/alberta_elec.html   (428 words)

  
 Welcome to Alberta Alliance Party. Party News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The party elected as its new leader Mr.
Alberta Alliance MLA Paul Hinman today was elected leader of the Alberta Alliance Party.
Alberta needs a government courageous enough to move ahead while defending the rights and priveleges of the past.
www.campaignsecrets.com /alliance/party_news_detail.asp?id=252   (584 words)

  
 Alberta Alliance Party - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Randy Thorsteinson was elected Leader of the Alberta Alliance on Feb. 15, 2003 at the Founding Assembly of the Party.
To register a new party in Alberta is a tremendous amount of work and in September 2002 Randy presented over 8,000 signatures (5,750 were required) on a petition to register the Party.
Founded in March 1984 at the height of the Alberta recession with $2,000 and one folding chair, the growth of the company is a lesson of the value of grit, determination and hard work.
www.albertaalliance.ca /leader.html   (965 words)

  
 Project Alberta - Empowering Albertans
Harper violated both the policies of the CPC and the constitution of the party by appointing the Liberal selected judge Rothstein directly to the bench and refusing to allow a vote in parliament.
The Progressive Conservatives of Alberta have increased spending dramatically, increased taxes, fought access to information, refused fixed election dates, refused citizen’s initiated referenda, refused to hold free votes, refused to end the use of closure in debate and have rejected every aspect of the “Alberta Agenda” which was an effort to increase provincial autonomy.
The unfortunate thing however is that the party has virtually no momentum and despite running three or four candidates for the first time in almost a decade in the last election, the party made no gains of significance.
www.projectalberta.com   (5434 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Web -- Alberta Party Leaders
Running against prominent Alberta PC members such as Nancy Betkowski (now MacBeth), the current leader of the Alberta Liberal party, he won the party leadership and was sworn in as Premier of Alberta on December 14, 1992.
During her tenure as Liberal party leader, MacBeth has led the Liberal caucus in questioning the Klein government's spending policies and in opposing Bill-11 and power deregulation.
The leader of the Alberta New Democrats was born in Punjab, India in 1934.
www.mapleleafweb.com /election/alberta/Albertaleaders.shtml   (879 words)

  
 ThePolitic.com - » The Party of Alberta
The Party of Alberta was officially launched at the beginning of November.
The Party of Alberta simply wants Alberta to exercise more of its constitutional rights and assert its authority over matters which are within its jurisdiction.
However, the fact is that Alberta’s interests simply get shuffled to the side, no matter the Party in power - politics in Canada is a numbers game, and the fact is that Majority Country has more than we do, and fully 70% of the seats in the House are east of the Manitoba-Ontario border.
www.thepolitic.com /archives/2006/11/27/the-party-of-alberta   (837 words)

  
 The Alberta Spectator: Moving Alberta Forward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While the rest of the country envies Alberta, Albertans are faced with more and more problems every day: rising inflation, crumbling infrastructure, environmental damage, growing recklessness and disregard for others and a political system that has given up on even appearing to listen to voters.
He is not too pleased where his Alberta is headed, and he has also called for a slowdown in the oil sands projects.
Alberta has great potential, and it could be anything it wants to be.
www.wernerpatels.com /musings/2006/10/moving_alberta_.html   (1443 words)

  
 Alberta Alliance Party - Welcome
An Alberta Alliance Government will institute an independent regulatory tribunal to develop "Fair Practice Guidelines", to ensure that private insurance providers are accountable for the manner in which they do business in Alberta, and to balance the interests of consumers, accident victims and private insurance providers.
An Alberta Alliance Government would eliminate the health care recovery levy paid by private insurance providers to the government, and require that this saving be passed on to Alberta policyholders by the private insurers providers, by lowering automobile insurance premiums.
An Alberta Alliance Government would eliminate the insurance premium tax paid by insurance providers to the government, and require that this saving be passed on to Alberta policyholders by the private insurance providers, by lowering automobile insurance premiums.
www.albertaalliance.com /partymedia.html   (1187 words)

  
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An interview with Bruce Hutton of the Separation Party of Alberta By Pete Vere web posted October 6, 2003 Over the past year, much has been written in the Canadian press concerning Western alienation.
Bruce is a proud Albertan who is currently organizing a founding convention of the Separation Party of Alberta for later this month.
Alberta has carried the have-not provinces, of which there are currently eight, for some time now without any return on our investment.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1003/1003alberta.txt   (968 words)

  
 ARL - How?
The Alberta Residents League was formed to advocate the Alberta Agenda to the public, Municipal District and County Councils, Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations, Town Councils and the local Executives of Provincial Political Parties.
Alberta Conservative Party AGM held weekend of April 24 - 25th, 2004 -- The Cypress Medicine Hat Constituency Association moved that Alberta set up a more affordable provincial alternative to the Canada Pension Plan.
Their job will be to organize a satellite group to pressure their own constituency MLA to support the ‘Alberta Agenda.’ While at the same time organize Townhall meetings to spark a raging debate on the benefits of the Alberta Agenda to Alberta and Albertans.
www.albertaresidentsleague.com /how.htm   (2078 words)

  
 Alberta Agenda - In The News
Dinning, a former Alberta treasurer who's made a name for himself in corporate circles, is leading among Alberta voters generally, according to provincial polling.
True, the Alberta government added to it, but only to make up for the fact that today’s seniors are taking more from CPP than they put in, at great cost to the young.
Alberta has a chance to lead Canada toward the kind of regulated private pension alternatives that are proving so superior in countries such as Chile.
www.albertaagenda.ca /news.htm   (3871 words)

  
 Party Responses
Alberta Liberals recognize that while some Albertans strongly believe that human life begins at conception, it must also be acknowledged that many other Albertans strongly believe human life begins at birth.
At Alberta Liberals, we acknowledge the fact that for many people this is a matter of individual conscience that may be founded on strongly-held religious beliefs.
The Alberta New Democrats have their stand on abortion (disguised as 'reproductive choice') on their campaign website; ironically under the heading "Women and the family."
www.lifesite.net /elections/provincial/alberta/partyresponses.html   (737 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Fear grips Alberta Tory party as Morton continues charge from the right   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Concerns within the Alberta Tory party were aired almost immediately after Morton finished a close second to Dinning in Saturday's first round of voting for a successor to the retiring Premier Ralph Klein.
He wants to dump the RCMP in favour of an Alberta police force and is keen to implement a separate pension plan along the lines of Quebec's.
In the final days before the decisive second ballot, all three candidates were scrambling to sign up new party members and boasting of endorsements from anyone who might sway the votes of those who supported the five candidates cut after the first vote.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2006/11/28/2531771-cp.html   (1059 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Ridings
This new riding is tucked between Edmonton's city limits to the west and Elk Island National Park to the east.
Two-thirds of the people here were born in Alberta, while nine per cent are immigrants.
Buck started his career with the Social Credit Party, then won as an independent in 1982, and then in 1986, under the banner of the Representative Party of Alberta, defeated future MLA Abdurahman, who ran as a Tory.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/riding/078   (290 words)

  
 AlbertaYoungLiberals.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Alberta Young Liberals are calling upon the provincial and federal governments to adopt the policies contained in the final policy document,” said AYL president, Dan Arnold.
AYL acts as a link between liberal Alberta youth and the Alberta Liberal Party, Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta, the Liberal Party of Canada, the Young Liberals of Canada and is the umbrella organization for all the student clubs and commissions in Alberta.
We are the link between Alberta liberal youth and the Alberta Liberal Party, Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta, and the Liberal Party of Canada.
www.albertayoungliberals.ca   (598 words)

  
 NDP News : Alberta New Democratic Party
Prior to that, Notley was the provincial secretary of the party - responsible for all organizational aspects of the NDP from candidates to fundraising.
His legacy is a grassroots party that survives and even thrives in the most unexpected corners of this province - in Lethbridge, in Grande Prairie, and in Fairview, where Grant won a seat in the 1971 campaign, by 147 votes.
Their two-man presence in the House was the only real opposition to the big-oil Conservative government of Peter Lougheed.  But that two-person opposition presence was built into a successful political movement and party in Alberta.
www.albertandp.ca /News.cfm?ID=82   (513 words)

  
 Welcome to the Marijuana Party Of Alberta
Reginald Normore, former Candidate for the Marijuana Party of Canada, President of the Marijuana Party of Alberta has unjustly and wrongly been imprisoned for a charge unknown to Law.
Heck those other parties all want membership fees, they demand it, so those entrenched prohibitionists in the party can reap the benefits of all that money, and when they campaign, they tow the party line, spout the party platform, and never ever mention marijuana.
There is the old and then there is the new, like the Marijuana Party of Canada, the only party that is vocal about the benefits of the repeal of Marijuana prohibition, before, during and after every election.
www.geocities.com /marijuana_party   (875 words)

  
 the Party of Alberta Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Well, paid members of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (which is anyone with $5 to spare) go to the polls again, today, to choose a leader.
But, again, Alberta - which is the largest per-capita contributor to the program - can't afford to have that money leave the province, especially not now when infrastructure is so badly needed.
Allow the Alberta government itself - through the Alberta Treasury Branches - to open up offices in other Provinces' capitals and allow Alberta to give low-interest loans to the other Provinces to help improve their finances.
partyofalberta.blogspot.com   (790 words)

  
 Fear grips Alberta Tory party as Morton continues charge from the right   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thomas Lukaszuk, a rookie backbencher from Edmonton, went so far as to say Alberta would look a lot like Alabama with a Morton government and he would have to rethink his future with the party.
Dinning represents the more established party in the province and I would expect the changes would be somewhat less dramatic," Gibbins said Tuesday, noting that Morton has "a sharper edge" compared with Dinning's ambassador-like approach.
In the final days before the decisive second ballot, all three candidates were scrambling to sign up new party members and boasting of endorsements from anyone who might sway the votes of those who supported the five candidates cut from the ballot after Saturday's result.
www.topix.net /content/cp/4133379080234635224436429873240087849526   (907 words)

  
 ARL - Articles
The royalties Alberta received from the oil and gas industry -- which includes natural gas, crude oil, synthetic crude and bitumen -- for the fiscal year of 2004-2005 was $8.4 billion.
Alberta taxpayers have paid $400 million to prop up the beef industry after an animal with mad cow disease was discovered in the province last May 20.
Although later he admitted that the "ongoing issue of Alberta's role in Confederation," might just boil over again when the PC Party's grassroots have their say in the resolutions sessions.
www.albertaresidentsleague.com /articles.htm   (9374 words)

  
 Upcoming Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On November 26th, 2005 the Alberta Party will be hosting its Annual General Meeting but with a twist.
The forum is open to all interested people and is focussed on bringing together people from all around Alberta, from other right-of-centre political parties to generate a co-operative effort in changing the political landscape.
The purpose of this forum is to foster co-operation between the right-of-centre parties and begin to create a direction for us in the 21st Century.
www.albertaparty.ab.ca /default.asp?pageID=15   (326 words)

  
 Celebrate Alberta Kick-Off Party - Alberta Centennial
In addition to the Centennial Kick-off Party on May 23, The Queen also visited the Provincial Museum of Alberta, the Alberta Legislature and Edmonton City Hall and attended a public concert event in Calgary.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh were officially welcomed to Alberta at the Centennial Kick-off Party at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
A series of centennial stained glass windows highlighting the role of the Monarchy in Alberta over the past 100 years are unveiled in the Alberta Legislature.
www.albertacentennial.ca /events/kickoff.html   (391 words)

  
 Alberta Renewal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They build trust with the people our party has been elected to serve and they demonstrate a willingness to both listen and hear ideas that can make our party and province even greater.
And with the coming election of a new Alberta Progressive Conservative Party leader and Premier, we are in a strong position to assume our rightful place in Confederation as a leading voice.
Alberta Renewal Congratulates New Leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
www.albertarenewal.ca   (333 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
While serving as an MLA, Ed was appointed Chair of the Alberta Agriculture Research Institute.
Paved the way for economic growth in all Alberta communities through a sweeping change to municipal transportation funding.
Negotiated an Agreement with the Federal Government for the Infrastructure Canada Alberta Program (ICAP) that provided $513 million to Alberta communities for local infrastructure projects.
www.albertapc.ab.ca   (328 words)

  
 Party of Alberta
The Party of Alberta is a new Federal political party that strives to get that better deal for our Province.
We believe that a balanced budget and a plan for paying down of the Federal debt will benefit Alberta, and will hold the Federal government to account on matters of money.
We believe that a Party should be operated transparently, from the ground up, and be responsive to its members.
www.partyofalberta.org   (258 words)

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