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Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan had, independently from the Environment Caucus, distributed a detailed discussion paper advocating that the NDP form a one or two election cooperation pact with the Alberta Liberal Party and Alberta Greens in which parties would not run against each other in certain ridings in hopes of defeating Progressive Conservative candidates.
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Alberta and Federation
This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.
Partisan differences began to sharpen on the question of government intervention in the economy, since lower levels of government were largely in Liberal hands, and protest movements were beginning to send their own parties into the political mainstream, notably the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and William Aberhart's Social Credit Party in Alberta.
* Federation of Calgary Communities, a community organization in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The " Alberta Federation of Métis Settlement Associations " was established in the mid 1970s and provides a collective voice for the Métis Nation of Alberta.
The British Cooperative Party, the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and United Farmers of Alberta are prime examples of such arrangements.
1993 ), journalist, broadcaster, business lobbyist and property rights advocate, Alberta Director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) ( French: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, then in 1955 rebranded in French as Parti social démocratique du Canada ) was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist political party in Canada, founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, agrarian, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction.
Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason remembered during the three-day board meetings when Layton was running for the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities: “ He would gather people together in his hotel room and play the guitar and get everybody singing old folk songs from the ’ 60s.
Examples of these sovereign wealth funds include the Australian Government Future Fund, the Government Pension Fund in Norway, the Stabilization Fund of the Russian Federation, the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan, Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund of Alberta, Canada, and the Future Generations Fund of the State of Kuwait established in 1976.
* Alberta Federation of Labour
The remaining UFA MPs were routed in the election of 1935 when most sitting United Farmers of Alberta MPs joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and were defeated at the polls by the Social Credit Party of Canada.
White, elected to the legislature in 1921 from Calgary, leader of the Labour caucus in the Alberta legislature from 1926 to 1935 ; president of the Alberta Federation of Labour from 1926 to 1941 as well as a long-serving secretary of the Calgary Trades and Labour Council and a Labour alderman in Calgary until 1939.
In Alberta, the CLP survived until 1942, in alliance with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation after 1935.
The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) was founded in Calgary on 1 August 1932 but organised in fits and starts in Alberta due to lack of support from the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ).
Alberta and Labour
McNabb was the first Labour MLA elected in Alberta, though he was defeated in his 1909 re-election bid.
The Alberta Progressives reconstituted themselves as parliamentary representatives of the United Farmers of Alberta electing 11 MPs in the 1926 election and 9 in 1930-most of whom were members of the radical Ginger Group faction of left wing Progressive, Labour and United Farmer MPs.
With the exception of workers at The Real Canadian Wholesale Club in Alberta, who are members of the Christian Labour Association of Canada, unionized employees are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
* William Irvine, was a close friend of Woodsworth, represented Calgary, Alberta as a Labour MP from 1921 to 1925 and as a United Farmers of Alberta MP from 1926 to 1935.
* Donald McNabb, elected from Lethbridge in a 1908 by-election to become the first Labour MLA in Alberta.
* See also The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party in Alberta, 1917-42
An Alberta Dominion Labour Party was also formed in 1920.
Several Labour MLAs joined the initial United Farmers of Alberta government.
UFA candidates also captured all but two of the Alberta federal seats in the 1921 federal election, the other two going to Labour candidates.
The Alberta Labour Party federated with the CCF in 1935, but continued to run its own candidates in provincial elections.
In 1942, the Alberta CCF clubs formally merged with the Labour Party and Elmer Roper became the new leader after becoming the party's first Alberta MLA as a result of an upset victory in a 1942 by-election.
Alberta and president
The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).
He served as President of the University of Alberta Young Progressive Conservatives, and eventually served as national president for the young PCs group.
The women, including faculty and students, wrote ten letters to the president of the University of Alberta.
As church president, Taylor oversaw the expansion of the Salt Lake community, the further organization of the church hierarchy, the establishment of Mormon colonies in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona as well as in the Canadian province of Alberta and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and the defense of plural marriage against increasing opposition.
He also served as president of the Students ' Union in 1951 – 1952 and was editor of the sports section for the Gateway, the University of Alberta student newspaper.
Federally, he was active with the United Farmers of Alberta Battle River Political Association, of which he became president.
The charismatic Wood was the UFA's president, and Brownlee often accompanied him to speaking engagements at UFA locals across Alberta in 1919 and 1920.
He soon became involved in the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ), a farmers ' lobby organization that was in the process of becoming a political party, eventually becoming the organization's vice president.
There he entered the oil and gas business, serving as a director ( and later vice president ) of Calmont Oils, president of the Oil and Gas Association, president of the Alberta Petroleum Association, and director of Home Oil.
Having defeated Brett, Sifton was immediately one of the area's most prominent Liberals, and was named president of the District of Alberta Liberals shortly thereafter.
Among the roles he acquired during his first three years in Alberta were President of the newly formed South Edmonton Football Club, secretary-treasurer of the South Edmonton School Board, president of the South Edmonton Athletic Association, vice president of the South Edmonton Literary Institute, auditor of the South Edmonton Agricultural Society, and worthy master of the Acacia Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1900, he was elected president of the Strathcona Liberal association, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Oliver as the party's candidate in Alberta for the 1900 federal election.
Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.
It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president.
A founding member of The Periodical Writers ' Association of Canada and of the Writers ' Guild of Alberta, she served as president of the WGA ( 1989 – 90 ) and as chair of The Writers ' Union of Canada ( 1993 – 94 ).
* Norman Kwong: Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta & professional football player, president & manager of the Calgary Stampeders.
Indira Samarasekera, president of The University of Alberta, further discussed this in the article, " Rising Up Against Rankings ," published in the April 2, 2007, issue of Inside Higher Ed.
* June 10-Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( b. 1860 )
Strong had his start as an entrepreneur in the Alberta oil patch and was president of Power Corporation of Canada until 1966.
* May 31-Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( died 1941 )
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