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The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time. Since 1993, however, it has formed the official opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Leader: Raj Sherman
Founded: 1905
Ideology: Liberalism
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Le Parti libéral de l'Alberta est un parti politique dans la province canadienne d'Alberta.
Bien que les membres du parti appuient souvent également le Parti libéral du Canada au niveau fédéral, les deux partis ne sont plus officiellement affiliés depuis 1976.
Fondation: 1905
Chef:Raj ...
33 I clearly support it. Alberta Liberal Party is quite good party. For instance, because it ... (if I wanted to write why it is good, I wrote it here), positive
33 I am strongly opposed. Alberta Liberal Party is quite bad choice. For instance, because it ... (if I wanted to write why it is bad, I wrote it here), negative
If you want a useful yardstick of the relative health of Alberta's opposition parties, you need look no further than the number of candidates they have nominated for the next provincial election.
Using this measure, it is very unlikely the increasingly marginalized Alberta Liberal Party under Leader Raj Sherman will be capable of fielding a full slate of candidates on election day.
There will be 87 seats in the provincial Legislature after the next election. Here is a prediction: The Liberals will be unable to field a slate of even two-thirds that number, and may only be able to find ...
Health care, education and the environment came and went.
It was the subject of whether or not to appeal to Albertans on an emotional level, rather than an intellectual one, that seemed to stoke the fire the most at an informal talk by Alberta Liberal Party leader Dr. David Swann at the Red Deer Public Library on Monday night.
It started when attendee Richard Townell mentioned that he read an article about why people vote against their own interests, specifically referring to the success of U.S. President Barack Obama’s emotional appeal on the campaign trail and apparent failure on the ...
The last time the Alberta Liberal party made a decent showing in a provincial election was in 1993, when dissatisfaction with the Tory government of Don Getty won them 32 seats, coming within 20 of the government.
It was an anomaly, and a brief one. The party quickly sank back into also-ran status. It hasn’t formed a government in the province since 1917, and its seat count has edged into double digits just a handful of times since then.
The Liberals have been just as hapless in federal votes. The last time they had a decent showing was ... well, never. The best they’ve ever done ...
Fort McMurrary protest calls for immediate twinning of deadly Highway 63 A crowd of people gathered Saturday at MacDonald Island Park in Fort McMurray to demand the Alberta government twin Highway 63 immediately after seven people, including two children and a woman who was six months pregnant, died just over a week ago in a fiery head-on crash.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair takes aim at oilsands NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says that, because of the way it raises the value of the Canadian dollar, other parts of the country are paying a price for the prosperity enjoyed by natural resource sectors such as the oilsands in Alberta.
Gallery Fickle Mother Nature dumps close to 10 centimetres of snow on Calgary CALGARY — Between five and 10 centimetres of wet snow blanketed Calgary on Saturday morning, proving once again that spring in the city can be fickle. “This is the time of year when it happens, especially in southern Alberta,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Brenda Niska-Aro.
