I'll speak to this point specifically as I live in the NW riding. While there have been a steady number of times/places set up to collect signatures I have found that many are at times that don't work for myself and I assume for many others. Looking again just now there are a number set up for this weekend which is good. But during this past week they all seemed to be set up for times like 3:00 - 5:00pm when it would have been impossible for me to get home from work in time to sign.
I think there is a big communication problem right now. The operation total recall site has pretty incomplete information on the canvasing stations. I think that fact that you are dealing with 20 independent organizers makes this a more challenging issue than the Forever Canada guys had. I know looking at the North, they have 3 or 4 times in the past week. and I could only find 1 on the site.
These applicants may submit a Notice of Intent with the same subject matter within 30 days to have the required application fee waived. The processes prescribed in the Act as it now reads would apply to the new initiatives.
C’mon Corb. No retreat, no surrender.
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DECEMBER 12, 2025 – Corb Lund announced today that Elections Alberta has notified him that his previously approved citizen petition initiative against coal mining in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains has been cancelled.
“This morning, we were informed that our approved application for our petition to prohibit any new coal mining in the Rockies has been retroactively cancelled. We will now need to reapply under new, more stringent regulations,” says Lund.
That a democratic process installed by the government can just be altered at any time because the government doesn't agree with the direction is such a Trumpian manoeuvre, I can not believe ANY Albertan could agree that this is acceptable. UCP defenders, please explain why this is no biggie, and not entirely undemocratic.
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Alberta separatist leaders expect to start canvassing in January to get their independence referendum question on the ballot, thanks to the provincial government’s latest legislation to make it easier for them to succeed.
Were it not for the United Conservatives’ speedy passage of Bill 14 this week, the Alberta Prosperity Project’s citizens initiative would have been in peril, thanks to a judge’s ruling that the existing initiative law didn’t permit a referendum on independence.
That new bill revives the separatists’ project by removing the ability for Elections Alberta — or anyone — to vet a proposed question’s constitutional validity.
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides is rallying UCP volunteers to fight against the bid to recall him, prompting the petition leader to warn Elections Alberta that the MLA’s counter-campaign might be overstepping the rules.
He went further this week. Nicolaides emailed his riding’s UCP members, urging them to volunteer to help him counter the “politically motivated recall campaign” to unseat him.
“The process to defeat this recall requires a swift, organized and robust response, and we need to defend the mandate you gave,” Nicolaides wrote in#the email#that circulated on social media, and which he later verified to CBC News.
I was thinking about this when I was signing the recall today. There was a guy yelling at us out his lifted truck saying all sorts of nonsense which sounded almost scripted. I gotta think these "volunteers" are just sent to heckle and harass the people at the recall stations.
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After checking the website everyday, I see Rebecca Schulz is in the gathering signatures phase. Since I live in the deep SE, I don't have much hope of this recall process doing much but I need to find info on where I can put my signature down. Is it a matter of simply emailing the organizer?
After checking the website everyday, I see Rebecca Schulz is in the gathering signatures phase. Since I live in the deep SE, I don't have much hope of this recall process doing much but I need to find info on where I can put my signature down. Is it a matter of simply emailing the organizer?
I do not see any events for her riding. I am guessing they are still trying to sign up canvassers to collect signatures?
Emailing the organizer is a good starting point to get pen to paper or even offer to help.
That would be the longest drive I've ever taken just for donuts... but I am considering it. Hillson sounds like a average day hero.
I hope his community is supporting him. He is a prime example of a normal citizen trying to help a democratic process and the UCP are attacking him and his livelihood.
McAllister in particular is demonstrating again that he is a POS and a coward.
One comment that stood out for me was when Yeremiy said that he is constantly surprised by how many people in the riding have no idea about the recall or the reasons behind it.
I also like how she describes the grassroots community building that is happening within the riding and how they are looking to the future to do more than just this recall, they want to organize into a group that drives politics for the people instead of waiting for politicians to tell them what they can have.
The best thing that can happen for democracy is for more people to become aware and actively participating.
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That’s the right way to look at it. Looking at Nicolaides specifically—16,000 signatures is a ton, and may not be doable—it’s almost 3500 more than voted NDP in 2023.
But if you get even half that number, you now have a huge list of names to call during the next election to remind them they thought it was important enough to remove him from office that they basically voted for that already. He won the election by 350 votes or so, so it won’t take a huge improvement in turnout and he’ll be gone.
And boy does he ever need to go. What a deplorable.
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But if you get even half that number, you now have a huge list of names to call during the next election to remind them they thought it was important enough to remove him from office that they basically voted for that already. He won the election by 350 votes or so, so it won’t take a huge improvement in turnout and he’ll be gone.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong but these list of signatures does not becomes something that is available to parties or candidates for election purposes so who is going to have this list of numbers and will be making calls? The list becomes available for public inspection but personal information such as address and contact info is supposed to be blacked out. There are rules and penalties around what can be done with the list of names.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong but these list of signatures does not becomes something that is available to parties or candidates for election purposes so who is going to have this list of numbers and will be making calls? The list becomes available for public inspection but personal information such as address and contact info is supposed to be blacked out. There are rules and penalties around what can be done with the list of names.
You don’t actually assume people are walking house to house, knocking on every door in Wildwood and Bowness, without keeping a record of the houses in which they found people willing to sign the petition, do you?
