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.

The day after the successful passing of the motion, Layton started the NDP election campaign, first with a speech in Ottawa followed later in the day by an event in Edmonton, Alberta.

The NDP also won seats in every province and region except for Alberta and Quebec.

In the 1986 Alberta Provincial Election, Prentice ran for the Progressive Conservatives in Calgary Mountain View, being defeated by NDP candidate Bob Hawkesworth.

* Jerry Doyle ( Alberta politician ), Canadian politician, Alberta NDP MLA Yellowhead

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 current leader of the Alberta NDP is Brian Mason, a former city councillor.

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 NDP

* The Socialist Party-CCF / NDP in Alberta

The NDP suffered the second-worst defeat of a sitting provincial government in Canada, eclipsed only by the New Brunswick election of 1987 and the Alberta election of 1935, in which the governing Tories and UFA were completely wiped off the map.

The programs in Saskatchewan and Alberta proved a success and the federal government of Lester B. Pearson introduced the Medical Care Act in 1966 that extended the HIDS Act cost-sharing to allow each province to establish a universal health care plan-an initiative that was drafted and initiated by the Liberal party and supported by the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

** Alberta: Conservatives 62 %, Liberals 23 %, NDP 13 %, Green 2 %

In 2011, the Socialist Caucus proposed resolutions at that year's federal NDP convention to oppose the Alberta Tar Sands, legalize marijuana, boycott “ apartheid Israel ,” repeal the Clarity Act and nationalize auto, bank and insurance companies.

The Alberta New Democrats ( NDP ) held on to their two seats and gained two more, all in Edmonton.

Brian Mason ( born October 12, 1953 ) is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats ( NDP ).

Finishing just behind the Alberta Alliance and ahead of the NDP.

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 ).

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

It was not the first petroleum find in Alberta, but it was large enough to significantly alter the economy of the province ( and coincided with growing American demand for energy ).

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

That provision was carried forward in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, when they were created by the Alberta Act and the Saskatchewan Act.

The Yukon Territory was created by Ottawa in 1898, followed by Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905.

Micro was used to manage very large data sets by the US Department of Labor, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

A small park near Lee's Creek on Main Street in Cardston, Alberta, her birthplace, was named " Fay Wray Park " in her honor.

Ethologist Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary, Alberta wrote that Fenrir's maiming and ultimate killing of Odin, who had previously nurtured him, was likely based on true experiences of wolf-behaviour, seeing as wolves are genetically encoded to rise up the pack hierarchy and have on occasion been recorded to rebel against and kill their parents.

Then, during a later visit to Alberta, the Governor General was admitted to the Blackfoot tribe as Chief Eagle Head.

It was reported, in early June 2007, that Prince Harry had arrived in Canada to train, alongside soldiers of the Canadian Forces and British Army, at CFB Suffield, near Medicine Hat, Alberta.

* 1904 – Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.

In 1905, when Alberta was carved out of the territories and made a province, Bennett became the first leader of the Alberta Conservative Party.

Elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, Bennett returned to the provincial scene to again lead the Alberta Tories in the 1913 provincial election, but kept his federal seat in Ottawa when his Tories failed to take power in the province ; such practice was later forbidden.

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

In Alberta, the county used to be a type of municipal status ; but this was changed to " municipal district " under the Municipal Government Act, when the County Act was repealed in the mid-1990s, at which time they were also permitted to retain the usage of county in their official names.

* 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.

After the newly founded Calgary Broncos folded prior to commencement of the inaugural WHA season, the Oilers were renamed the Alberta Oilers as it was planned to split their home games between Edmonton and Calgary.

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.

The WHL was founded in 1966 with seven teams in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president.

The University of Alberta Press, which was founded in 1969, concentrates on western Canadian history, general science and ecology.

The institute also founded Assumption College, now Assumption University, federated with the University of Windsor, St. Thomas More College, federated with the University of Saskatchewan, and St. Joseph's College, affliliated with the University of Alberta.

* BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Austin, Texas, founded in February 1995, acquired October 2007 from Elevation Partners.

The Regular Baptist Missionary Fellowship of Alberta joined in 1963, while the Convention of Regular Baptist Churches of British Columbia ( founded 1927 ) joined in 1965.

Hart founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and associated wrestling school " The Dungeon.

* May 23-North-West Mounted Police are founded to police the Northwest Territories, which then included the region today of Alberta and Saskatchewan

The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values.

Thorsteinson founded the Alberta Alliance Party in October 2002.

At the party's first national convention in 1944, delegates decided to abandon the name New Democracy and founded the Social Credit Association of Canada as a national party and chose Alberta Treasurer Solon Earl Low as the party's first national leader.

Between, 1920 and 1926, provincial parties were founded in British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation.

The Big Rock Brewery is a craft brewery founded in 1985 and located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

UFA was founded in 1909 as a government lobby group following a merger between the Alberta Farmers ' Association and the Canadian Society for Equity.

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 ).