Calgary Municipal Politics

[CBBarnett]

"Intended Candidate for Mayor"? Can you not just say "for Mayor"?

This might be some cleverness around election rules - you can start campaigning before you are allow to campaign, because you're not a candidate yet?

At any rate, seems wildly overkill for municipal elections to have announcements and press conferences a year out from an election. Perhaps to combo of the province directed provincial parties to the big cities, and their the mantra of "always be running for election" with the provincial government running permanent attack ads against their opponents even though an election is like 3 years away is rubbing off on local behaviours too.

 

[lemongrab]

We know its wAy tOo RiSkY to have provincial elections during wildfire season, but if we can learn anything from the present moment is that October is also a bad time for elections because of hurricanes or something so maybe they'll bump the civic one up to January '25 to get these woke radicals out of city councils...