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Jun 19, 2024 · But the municipal political party pilot project remained. Cheryl Munson, who speaks for A Better Calgary, says the current city council helped motivate like-minded people to form a party.
Jun 19, 2024 · News of the new party found its way early Wednesday to Calgary’s sitting council members, who retained their split views on the change of the local political landscape.
Jun 19, 2024 · A Better Calgary (ABC) announced its launch Wednesday, as a centre-right party that will field candidates to compete for ward seats in Calgary’s 2025 municipal election. The addition of municipal political parties….
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I know, dear reader, that your appetite for social science jargon is limited. But here's just a morsel of jargon that I think is actually quite useful: the distinction between policy ideology and symbolic ideology. Policy ideology is the name we give to our left-wing or right-wing policy preferences. These are the left-right patterns in our actual ...
The best way to understand how conservative Calgarians really are is to compare ourselves with other Canadians using the biggest survey data set available: the 2019 Canadian Election Study, a massive survey of more than 38,000 Canadians, including more than 1,500 in Calgary. The 2019 Canadian Election Study survey is a treasure trove for politics n...
In the Canadian Municipal Election Study, which we completed in July and August of this year, we asked a random sample of 2,200 Calgarians how they would have voted on a number of municipal issues had they been on city council in the past term. On average, we found Calgarians would have voted to reintroduce fluoride (68 per cent), reduce residentia...
Years ago, a political scientist made the argument that many American citizens are "symbolic conservatives" but "policy liberals" — they think of themselves as conservatives but hold liberal attitudes on many policy issues. In Calgary municipal politics, I think we see something very similar. Calgarians have a longstanding connection to the Conserv...
Sep 24, 2021 · In Calgary municipal elections, the provincial or federal party affiliations of the voters are often one of the best predictors of who they'll support on the city council level.
Nov 17, 2020 · As of Tuesday, Calgary’s Future is the only third-party advertiser registered through Elections Calgary with others like Save Calgary and Take Back City Hall expected to register and be...
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Feb 11, 2022 · Using City of Calgary generated council vote data, LiveWire Calgary has pulled together a look at voting patterns in the first 100+ days. In recent mayoral 100-days interviews, Calgary political scientists said the emergence of a voting block might present a headwind for Mayor Gondek’s policy agenda.
