Alberta election campaign trails with sore heels and bold claims
Calgary reports Premier Ralph Klein joking about sore heels from campaigning as he dismisses debates and presses on with his agenda. In Edmonton, border agents block a Republican PR consultant, Genevieve Wood, over NAFTA work permit rules for Alberta Alliance staff, forcing remote coordination from Washington.
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Calgary
Ralph Klein
Kevin) Taft
Alliance
Randy) Thorsteinson
NDP
Brian
Mason
Klein
Alberta
Ralph Kein
Edmonton
Canada
Alberta Alliance
Genevieve Wood
Campaign Secrets
Republican National Committee
NAFTA
Mark Montini
Wood
Washington, D.C
Election forum targets PC incumbent in Medicine Hat
A student association sponsored forum at Medicine Hat College brought together five provincial candidates from the Medicine Hat riding. Rob Renner faced sharp questions and personal attacks from Karen Charlton, Diana Arnott, Scott Cowan, and Jonathan Lorentzen as they debated tuition, health care, auto insurance, and government record. Charlton criticized tuition rises, Arnott pushed NDP policy, Cowan denounced photo radar, and Lorentzen urged tuition freezes and affordable loans while sharing personal student debt experiences. Renner defended Klein era policies with cited statistics on health care premiums and auto insurance.
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Medicine Hat
Students’ Association
Medicine Hat College
Progressive Conservative
Rob Renner
Karen Charlton
Liberal Party
NDP
Diana Arnott
Alliance
Scott Cowan
Social Credit
Jonathan Lorentzen
Renner
Ralph Klein
Charlton
Arnott
Cowan
Bennet
Alberta
Lorentzen
Klein visits Sherwood Park as petrochemical jobs loom
About 10 union members confronted Alberta Premier Klein at a Tory event in Sherwood Park over policy they say threatens the petrochemical industry. Celanese Canada will close an Edmonton plant next year, transferring 250 to 300 jobs to Mexico Belgium and a China plant, prompting union critics to blame Alliance pipeline liquids policy and high North American prices for feedstock.
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Sherwood Park
Alberta
J Saerrrient
Klein
Mike McKinney
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union
Edmonton
Celanese Canada
Mexico
Belgium
China
Alliance
Medicine Hat nurses demand health policy clarity before election
Local president Kathy Bayer of United Nurses of Alberta warns that Conservative health cuts and staffing gaps have left Medicine Hat nurses overworked. She calls for the Klein government to outline its health platform, promote nurse practitioners to ease doctors’ load, and address looming RN retirements projected to rise in coming years.
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Medicine Hat
Ralph Klein
United Nurses of Alberta
Focal 70
Kathy B. Bayer
Klein
Bayer
AARN
Alberta
Kevin Taft
Taft
Auditor General
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