Don Iveson officially launched his campaign for re-election as Mayor of Edmonton at an event at La Cite Francophone yesterday. Here is the video of his campaign launch speech, which is also available on his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/DonIvesonForMayor/videos/vb.162006360648537/797902437058923/?type=3&theater
With 81 days left until the October 16, 2017 municipal elections in Alberta, more candidates have put their names forward to run for public office. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running in Edmonton’s municipal election for City Council and the Edmonton Public School Board:
- Bob Ligertwood is running for mayor. He is the owner of Naked Cyber Cafe and Expresso Bar and he previously ran for mayor in 2007 and 2010.
- Felix Amenaghawom is running in Ward 4. Amenaghawom is an Assistant General Supervisor with the City of Edmonton.
- Former Progressive Conservative MLA David Xiao is running for city council in Ward 5. Xiao was the MLA for Edmonton-McClung from 2008 to 2012 and served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Employment and Immigration. ‘Edmonton-McClung MLA David Xiao’s claimed travel expenses of nearly $35,000 last year, more than any of his Edmonton colleagues,’ the CBC reported on Jan. 22, 2013. In 2014, he was disqualified from running for the federal Conservative nomination in the Edmonton-West riding. He was defeated in the 2015 election by New Democrat Lorne Dach.
- Glenda Williams is running for City Council in Ward 10.
- Shelagh Dunn is running for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward C. Dunn is a psychologist who has worked as a counsellor in schools and at post-secondary institutions, and taught high school and post-secondary students about community engagement and mental health.
- Saira Wagner is running for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward I.
- Jeff Lee is running for the Edmonton Catholic School Board in Ward 73. He is the owner of the The Homework Centre, located in St. Gabriel School.
If you know any other candidates who have announced their intentions to stand for Mayor, Council, or School Board and are not on this list, please send me an email at david.cournoyer@gmail.com. I will add them. Thank you!
5 replies on “81 days left until Edmonton’s Municipal Elections”
Why do your headlines on civic election posts alway refer to “Edmonton’s Municipal Elections”, when in fact all Alberta municipalities and school boards hold elections on the same day this October? They aren’t “Edmonton’s” civic elections, they are Alberta’s.
Because I am writing about the municipal elections in Edmonton.
Do you think that Alberta Together will stay as a so-called “think-tank” or will they become a new political party here in Alberta?
In addition, with the UCP on the right and NDP on the left, do you think there is room and interest in forming a new Centrist party here in the province?
56 days until the election…any updates on the candidates that have put their hat in the ring?
Thanks for the comment, Jackie – Ask and you shall receive! http://daveberta.ca/2017/08/55-days-left-until-edmontons-municipal-elections/