/channels/taxonomy/term/434/all en /channels/channels/news/albertas-newly-minted-ucp-cabinet-will-need-lead-premier-smith-cbc-343775 <p>October 26, 2022 | In the opinion column by Prof <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/ken-boessenkool">Ken Boessenkool</a>, he  highlighted how the head of lettuce is connected to Alberta's new cabinet. The first 10 days of Danielle Smith's premiership in Alberta overlapped with the final 10 days of Liz Truss, former British Prime Minister. The end of Truss and the beginning of Smith felt so similar.</p> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:29:44 +0000 webfull 184772 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-alberta-premier-jason-kenney-steps-down-ucp-leader-339648 <p>Premier Jason Kenney threw Alberta politics into a tailspin on May 18 when he narrowly won a United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership review vote only to announce he was quitting the top job. Kenney said anger from party and caucus members over decisions he made to limit personal liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic led to open criticism of his leadership and ultimately the underwhelming vote of support in the review. (<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8846607/jason-kenney-ucp-leadership-vote-results-alberta/" target="_blank">Global News</a>)</p> Thu, 19 May 2022 19:27:06 +0000 webfull 180237 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-new-alberta-mayors-councilors-bring-diversity-provincial-councils-334379 <p>The 2021 municipal election was historic in Alberta, where Edmonton elected its first mayor of colour and Calgary its first female mayor. Calgary’s new mayor, Jyoti Gondek, says the diversity of the city’s incoming council will bring “strength to decision-making” at a time when a significant number of women and people of colour were elected to municipal offices across Alberta. Mayor-elect Amarjeet Sohi, a Sikh immigrant from India, will be the first person of colour to lead Edmonton.</p> Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:45:55 +0000 webfull 174287 at /channels /channels/channels/news/low-carbon-world-coming-alberta-macleans-334340 <p>October 21, 2021 | In this op-ed for Maclean's Max Bell School director Chris Ragan, Dale Beugin and Gord Lambert explain why ahead of COP26, Alberta needs to prepare for the inevitability of a low-carbon world.</p> <p><a href="https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/a-low-carbon-world-is-coming-alberta/">Read the article.</a></p> Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:27:43 +0000 webfull 174240 at /channels /channels/channels/news/experts-federal-government-buy-trans-mountain-pipeline-45b-287384 <p>“The Liberal government will buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure for $4.5 billion, and spend billions more to build the controversial expansion.” (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-trans-mountain-pipeline-kinder-morgan-1.4681911">CBC</a>)</p> <p><a href="/law/about/profs/jodoin-sebastien"><strong>Sébastien Jodoin</strong></a><strong>, Faculty of Law, ƽ���岻��</strong></p> Tue, 29 May 2018 17:27:48 +0000 webfull 138238 at /channels /channels/news/alberta-election-2015-249946 Tue, 05 May 2015 16:10:25 +0000 webfull 109889 at /channels