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"Regina Coronation Park MLA Mark Docherty announced that he will be resigning his seat in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.

“It has been an honour to serve the people of Coronation Park as a member of their Saskatchewan Party government for the past 11 years and to see the tremendous growth and progress in our city and our province during that time,” Docherty said. “Serving and building community are at the heart of who I am and I look forward to continuing that important work in new ways.”

Docherty was first elected in 2011 and then again in 2016 and 2020.

“Mark is a tremendously sincere and empathetic MLA who cares deeply about his community and its people,” said Premier Scott Moe. “I will miss the passion and compassion Mark brings to our caucus discussions.”

A byelection will be held within the next six months to elect a new MLA for the park."

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Justin Trudeau missing Calgary Stampede this summer

Article content OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s summer campaign circuit will not include a stop at the Calgary Stampede. The annual 10-day rodeo and festival is usually a must-do event for politicians and Trudeau hasn’t missed a summer except for the COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021. But his office confirms there will be no pancake flipping, cowboy-hat tipping or crowd-hopping for the prime minister this year. Article content There was no immediate explanation provided for his absence. The Stampede officially begins Friday with a parade and runs until July 14. Trudeau’s office signalled he wasn’t going to attend in 2017, but after a gaffe — when he accidentally forgot to include Alberta in a list of provinces during his Canada Day speech — he showed up at the Stampede two weeks later. Trudeau is currently dealing with the fallout from the stunning Liberal loss of a long-held Toronto seat in a byelection on June 24. His party’s slump in the polls has lasted more than a year and his MPs are up in arms about how to stage a comeback before the next election. He and his party have never been particularly popular in Alberta but he has been greeted mostly warmly at the Stampede in past years. Last year, crowds jockeyed for selfies as he made his way through the Stampede grounds. Recommended from Editorial Braid: The Trudeau Liberals may have finally doomed themselves to extinction Bell: Hey Toronto, took you long enough to figure out Trudeau He also flipped pancakes at a breakfast hosted by Calgary MP George Chahal, one of two Liberals elected in Alberta. Chahal is hosting a pancake breakfast again this year but Trudeau won’t be there. A spokesperson for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the news Trudeau won’t be attending “must come as welcome relief” for Alberta Liberal and NDP MPs who would prefer he “stay in hiding.” “Having just been rejected in one of the safest Liberal ridings in downtown Toronto, it’s hard to imagine that Canadians will miss Justin Trudeau all too much at Stampede,” Sebastian Skamski said in a statement. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2024. Share this article in your social network Source link via The Novum Times

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New Brunswick Liberal leader Holt hopes byelection will be ticket into legislature

Voters in a New Brunswick byelection will determine today whether Liberal Leader Susan Holt gets a seat in the legislature.

Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore will be the most closely watched of three ridings going to the polls to fill vacancies in the 49-seat legislature.

Holt, a former civil servant who has never been elected, is seeking to represent the riding after becoming Liberal leader in August.

The governing Progressive Conservatives opted not to run a candidate against her, but she does face a challenge from Serge Brideau of the Green Party and interim NDP leader Alex White.

The other two ridings with votes today are Dieppe and Restigouche-Chaleur -- all three elected Liberals in the 2020 general election.

J. P. Lewis, a political science professor at University of New Brunswick in Saint John, says the Liberal leader has a very good chance of winning but warns that a loss could mean challenging times ahead for the party.

Heading into the byelections, the Progressive Conservatives under Premier Blaine Higgs held 29 seats, the Liberals had 13, the Greens held three and there was one Independent.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24, 2023.

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There will be nine new faces when the legislature resumes sitting on Prince Edward Island in the coming months, all from the governing party. The 22 Progressive Conservative seats include those nine first-time MLAs and all 13 incumbents. Three Liberals and two Green Party members also held their seats.

Below are the 27 elected representatives who will make up the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The majority increased from 15 seats to 22. Six came at the expense of the Green Party, and one was flipped from Liberal hands. Two other newcomers won seats held by former PC MLAs who did not re-offer.

Rob Lantz, a former leader of the Progressive Conservatives, won District 13: Charlottetown-Brighton. The seat was formerly held by Green MLA Ole Hammarlund, who lost his party's nomination to Janice Harper. A win is a form of redemption for Lantz, who lost the district in 2015 to Liberal Jordan Brown and spent eight years out of politics. He got a warm welcome back in King's victory speech Monday night.

Susie Dillon turned District 11: Charlottetown-Belvedere from green to blue. The seat was formerly held by the Greens' Hannah Bell, who did not re-offer. Joanna Morrison, who won the nomination in Bell's place, finished second.

Barb Ramsay took District 22 (Summerside-South Drive) from incumbent Green MLA Steve Howard. Tyler DesRoches, a former Summerside councilor, took District 21: Summerside-Wilmot from incumbent Green MLA Lynne Lund.

Jenn Redmond, who won the PC nomination by just one vote, was in another nail-biter Monday, winning District 5: Mermaid-Stratford by just 38 votes. Michele Beaton, the incumbent and a vocal MLA for the Greens, finished second.

Hilton MacLennan, who manages the O'Leary Co-op Feed Mill and Retail Store, took District 23: Tyne Valley-Sherbrooke from incumbent Green MLA Trish Altass.

Gilles Arsenault won in District 24: Evangeline-Miscouche, a seat formerly held by longtime Liberal MLA and interim party leader Sonny Gallant, who did not re-offer MacLellan, the Liberal candidate, and finished second.

Robin Croucher won in District 1: Souris-Elmira with 1,593 votes, keeping the seat for PCs LaVie, the MLA for the last 11 years, who made a late decision not to run again due to health reasons.

Jill Burridge kept District 6, Stratford-Keppoch, for the PCs with 1,479 votes. The seat was formerly held by James Aylward, who did not re-offer King the seat but handily won in District 15: Brackley-Hunter River) with more than 68 percent of the vote.

Bloyce Thompson, a farmer who was the minister of economic growth, tourism, and culture, won in District 8: Stanhope-Marshfield with the highest percentage of votes in any district this time - almost 80 percent of the vote. He faced only one challenger, Marian White of the NDP.

Matthew MacKay won in District 20 (Kensington-Malpeque in 2019) with a margin of 76 percent. MacKay held the high-profile social development and housing portfolio and was called upon to find temporary housing for Islanders facing homelessness.

Ernie Hudson won in District 26: Alberton-Bloomfield over Pat Murphy, a Liberal MLA from 2007-2019. Hudson was the King's minister of health and wellness at a time when many Islanders cited health care as the island's most pressing issue.

Steven Myers, most recently the minister of environment, energy, and climate action, won his fourth election in District 2: Georgetown-Pownal with almost 70 percent of the vote.

Darlene Compton, King's deputy premier and minister of agriculture and land, won in District 4: Belfast-Murray River with 1,510 votes, almost three times as many as her nearest competitor, Liberal candidate Katherine Bryson.

Cory Deagle, 31, retains his title as the youngest MLA, winning District 3: Montague-Kilmuir with more than 70 percent of the vote before dissolution was won for the PCs in a byelection in 2020, and cruising to victory in District 10: Charlottetown-Winsloe with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Sidney MacEwen, government house leader before the election call, had a convincing win in District 7, Morell-Donagh, with more than 70 percent of the vote.

Jamie Fox, the most recent minister of fisheries and communities, won his third election in District 19: Borden-Kinkora, well ahead of Matthew MacFarlane of the Green Party.

Jamie Fox, the most recent minister of fisheries and communities, won his third election in District 19: Borden-Kinkora, well ahead of Matthew MacFarlane of the Green Party.

Mark McLane, who was King's most recent finance minister, was re-elected in District 16: Cornwall-Meadowbank. McLane took the seat from the Liberals in a 2021 byelection after Heath MacDonald resigned to run federally. Green candidate Tayte Willows finished second on Monday.

Mark McLane, who was King's most recent finance minister, was re-elected in District 16: Cornwall-Meadowbank took the seat from the Liberals in a 2021 byelection after Heath MacDonald resigned to run federally and finished second on Monday.

The Liberals will form the official opposition, winning the second-largest number of seats, though their leader Sharon Cameron did not secure a seat herself McNeilly returns as the only person of color in the legislature, keeping his seat in District 14; Charlottetown-West Royalty candidate Kristi MacKay came in a close second.

Robert Henderson won his fifth election, taking District 25: O'Leary-Inverness in a three-way race with Daniel MacDonald of the PCs and Herb Dickieson of the NDP.

Hal Perry, who was first elected as a Progressive Conservative in 2011 before crossing the floor to the then-governing Liberals in 2013, was re-elected in District 27: Tignish-Palmer Road.

Leader Peter Bevan-Baker kept his seat in District 17: New Haven-Rocky Point, but just barely. PC Donald Docherty gave him a scare by finishing just over 100 votes behind. Liberal Leader Sharon Cameron finished a distant third.

Karla Bernard, the former opposition critic for social development, housing, and the status of women, kept her seat in District 12; Charlottetown Victoria Park Keizer, a longtime Charlottetown police constable, was a close second.

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Trends Show 2017 Assembly Bypolls Redux as BJP Leads in 6 Seats, SP Hold on to 1

Trends Show 2017 Assembly Bypolls Redux as BJP Leads in 6 Seats, SP Hold on to 1

Voters display their identity cards outside a polling station at Paliganj, in Bihar. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

In 2017, the six seats — Ghatampur, Bulandshahr, Bangarmau, Unnao, Deoria and Naugaon Sadat — were all grabbed by the BJP, while SP had won Malhani seat that saw a close contest between Lucky Yadav and independent candidate Dhananjay Singh.

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P.E.I. Green Party wasn't ready for election, may lose seats from 2019: experts

As the Prince Edward Island election approaches its final week, the Green Party is fighting to hold onto its historic gains from the last provincial vote -- a battle some experts say could result in lost seats.

Hannah Bell, a Green MLA who decided not to seek re-election, says the party simply wasn't ready for this campaign.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Dennis King did call the vote six months before the province's fixed election date, Bell says all political parties knew a campaign was coming this year. She says her party was not doing enough grassroots work or planning in the months and years leading up to the April 3 vote, leading her to believe the party's seat count may suffer.

"I do feel, and I have been saying this internally and externally, that the Green Party has missed an opportunity to build momentum in advance of an election," Bell said.

"You need to start planning for the next election the minute you finish an election. And in hindsight the Greens struggled with building and expanding on the fact they had such a momentous impact from 2019."

The P.E.I. Green Party made history four years ago when it won eight seats in the legislature and became the first Green official Opposition in North America.

The PCs formed a minority government, becoming the first one the province had seen since the 19th Century. That gave Peter Bevan-Baker's Greens more influence and opportunity to advance initiatives and policies than opposition parties of the past, although the Tories did secure a slim majority after a 2020 byelection.

Today, however, the Green Party's momentum appears to have stalled. At the outset of the campaign, the Greens were polling well behind the PCs. A Narrative Research poll suggested the Greens had the support of 22 per cent of decided voters in February, compared with 49 per cent support for the Progressive Conservatives.

The Greens have also struggled to attract candidates and were forced to leave two ridings without anyone carrying the party banner.

"I won't pretend that I'm not disappointed that we don't have a full slate, and I can tell you it wasn't for lack of trying," Bevan-Baker said in a recent interview.

Many supporters have expressed a desire to run for the party over the last four years, but found it hard to drop everything to run when the early election call came, he said.

Some also expressed a reticence to run due to the challenges of public life and how "ugly and petty and cruel that can be," Bevan-Baker added. "I think that puts some people off, particularly people from marginalized communities and women."

Both Bevan-Baker and Bell said they believe the public mood is also hurting the Greens. Both say they felt Islanders viewed 2019 as a "change election," while this campaign does not have the same energy.

But Bell also says she believes the party should have been doing more to prepare well before the lead up to this campaign. For example, the party has only established a handful of district associations and has not been expanding its membership in areas outside of the urban ridings where its support is strongest, Bell said.

She blames the party's "inexperience" in elected office -- no Green MLA was ever elected in P.E.I. before 2015 -- but also says her colleagues and party staff have been more focused on policy than on building the grassroots.

Don Desserud,a political science expert based in P.E.I., says he believes the Green Party's breakthrough four years ago was due largely to disaffected Liberal voters looking for an alternative after 12 years of Liberal governments.

That's why he says this election will be a test of how much support the Greens are able to retain, or whether 2019 was an "aberration" in a province that has typically elected either Liberal or PC MLAs.

Desserud said some disaffected voters who were parking their votes with the Greens in 2019 may have grown to like the party.

"But when I look at those polling numbers, I don't see that," he said. "I see the Greens back to where they were before."

The Liberals, who had four seats heading into the election, have been polling well behind the PC party and slightly behind the Greens. They are also not running a full slate of candidates for the first time since 1919.

Liberal Leader Sharon Cameron has made it her focus to target the Green Party in this campaign in an effort to win back some of those disaffected voters. Cameron has even taken the unusual step of running against Bevan-Baker in his riding, breaking the political convention of not pitting leaders against one another.

P.E.I. historian Ed MacDonald says the province's two-party system is deeply entrenched in older generations of Islanders, many of whom saw their party allegiances as a kind of family inheritance.

But he says the Greens could maintain their gains and attract new voters, given the shifting demographics of the Island thanks to population growth from aggressive immigration efforts.

"The electoral landscape on P.E.I. has been and is changing," he said.

"There are a lot more newcomers to Prince Edward Island from other parts of Canada, from other areas of the world who don't share in that traditional kind of electoral inheritance. So the swing vote, I think, is much larger than it ever was, especially in urban areas."

Bevan-Baker says criticism of his party's election readiness is "fair," but he remains hopeful that Islanders will focus on the Greens' substantial work over the last four years in Opposition, including getting 18 bills passed into law.

"We showed that we deserve to be there," Bevan-Baker said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 26, 2023.

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BJP Wins Wangoi, Singhat and Wangjing Tentha; Leads in Saitu

BJP Wins Wangoi, Singhat and Wangjing Tentha; Leads in Saitu

The BJP has won the Wangoi, Singhat and Wangjing Tentha seats and is leading from in Saitu assembly bypoll seat as vote-counting continued in Manipur on Tuesday. The Election Commission is counting the votes for the Manipur bypolls alongside that of Bihar assembly elections, amid the hectic task of maintaining strict Covid-19

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Haryana Bypoll Result: Counting of votes underway in Baroda Assembly constituency Image Source : PTI Haryana Bypoll Result: Counting of votes for Baroda Assembly bypoll seat begins…

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By Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Bypolls Results Of 58 Seats In 11 States Today, All Eyes On Madhya Pradesh By Election Results 2020: In Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia defected to the BJP with 22 MLAs.

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Madhya Pradesh bypolls 2020: Supreme Court stays HC order asking political events to carry digital rallies Image Source : FILE PHOTO SC stays HC order asking political events to carry digital rallies in Madhya Pradesh.

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MP Cong Will Lose Its Shrinking Base with Cheap Talk: Tomar Slams ‘Nange Bhuke Ghar Ka’ Remark File photo of BJP leader and Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said the opposition party will further lose its base among masses by indulging in "cheap talk".

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बिहार चुनाव: PM मोदी ने लोगों से की वोट डालने की अपील, बोले- लोकतंत्र के इस उत्सव को सफल बनाएं, मास्क जरूर पहनें Bihar Polls 2020: पीएम मोदी की मतदाताओं से भारी वोटिंग की अपील (फाइल फोटो) पटना: बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव

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A look at Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Premier Andrew Furey

Liberal Premier Andrew Furey was re-elected Saturday in Newfoundland and Labrador's pandemic-delayed election.

Furey, 45, is an orthopedic surgeon who entered politics last year, but he comes from a political family. His father, George Furey, is the current Speaker of the Senate in Ottawa, and his uncle was a provincial cabinet minister.

In 2010, Andrew Furey helped create Team Broken Earth to provide medical relief after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. He was later named humanitarian of the year by the Canadian Red Cross.

His political life has been short but eventful. He was elected leader of the province's Liberal party last August and was sworn in as premier later that month. On Oct. 6, 2020, he was elected as the member for the Humber-Gros Morne district in a byelection.

With the province facing towering financial struggles, including the highest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the country, Furey adopted a strategy of assembling teams of leaders from across the province to tackle issues such as boosting tourism, improving health care and tackling the debt.

"We have come to a time in our history when the road ahead is a little foggy, perilous no doubt" he said in his victory speech Saturday. "But if we are bold now, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the trajectory of Newfoundland and Labrador."

Furey ran a safe campaign, making low-stakes promises and staying far away from the heated debate about the delayed election's management. Still, he didn't escape scrutiny.

After he resumed his attendance at the province's public health briefings when a COVID-19 outbreak erupted in early February, Furey was back in the line of fire. Sitting next to chief medical officer of health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, he was regularly pelted with questions from reporters asking that he justify his decision to call an election on Jan. 15, in the midst of a global pandemic.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 27, 2021.

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Saskatchewan Party MLAs Warren Steinley and Corey Tochor have officially resigned their seats. The pair are running for the Conservatives in the upcoming federal election.

However, the timing is causing Saskatchewan's NDP leader to speak out. Ryan Meili says the pair have been collecting a salary from provincial taxpayers since winning their federal nominations in the spring of 2018.

Meili said the timing means the government is not forced to call a byelection to fill those seats before next fall's provincial election because of a loophole caused by the fixed election date law. The seats will remain vacant until the next provincial vote in the fall of 2020.

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