What we asked candidates
These are the questions we sent candidates for Mayor and Council
- Will you oppose privatization of municipal services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
- Will you support your employees and your communitya by ensuring the municipality employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights?
- Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against municipal staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
- How do you propose your municipality deal with funding shortfalls, cuts, and downloading of responsibilities from federal and provincial governments? Do you favour spending cuts over tax increases?
- Do you support measures such as mask mandates, vaccine “passports”, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your municipality?
- Do you support measures to reduce municipal reliance on services fees and fares, such as eliminating transit fares?
These are the questions we sent candidates for Public and Catholic School Board
- Do you agree with calls to scrap the draft curriculum and start over to develop a curriculum that is accurate in capturing Alberta’s colonial history, diverse present, and modernized to reflect the world we live in?
- Do you believe the current education funding formula is sufficient for your district? If not, how will you work to convince the province to provide sustainable and adequate funding?
- Will you oppose privatization of school services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
- Will you support your employees and your community by ensuring the school board employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights?
- Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against school staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
- Do you support measures such as mask mandates, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your schools?
Responses from Candidates for Mayor
Zane Novak
- F
- D
- D
- F
- F
- D
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Dean Hopkins
- B-
- C
- B
- F
- F
- B
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Jan Damery
- D-
- C
- C
- D
- C
- D
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Brad Field
- F
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
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Jeromy Farkas
- D-
- F
- D
- F
- F
- D
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Ian Chiang
- D
- C
- C
- F
- D-
- F
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Paul Michael Hallelujah
- C
- D
- C
- D
- F
- C
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Mizanur Rahman
- C
- C
- B
- B
- B
- C
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Shaoli Wang
- D
- C
- F
- F
- D
- B
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Zaheed Ali Khan
- F
- B
- D
- C
- F
- B
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Jyoti Gondek
- D
- D
- D
- D
- C
- C
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Responses from Candidates for Council
Ward 1
Sonya Sharp
- C
- C
- C
- F
- B
- C
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Jacob McGregor
- D
- C
- D
- D
- F
- D
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Larry Tweedale
- B
- C
- C
- B
- B
- B
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Ward 2
Francis Aranha
- B
- C
- B
- C
- D
- A
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Ward 3
Nate Pike
- D
- C
- C
- C
- C
- C
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Brent Trenholm
- D
- D
- D
- D
- F
- D
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Kumar Sharma
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
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Ward 4
Angela McIntyre
- A
- B
- B
- D
- C
- D
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Ward 5
Tudor Dinca
- D
- C
- C
- C
- F
- D
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Tahir Merali
- D
- C
- C
- D
- C
- D
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Ward 6
Lana Bentley
- D
- C
- C
- D
- D+
- C
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Ward 7
Marilyn North Peigan
- D+
- B
- D+
- C
- B+
- B
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Terry Wong
- B
- D
- C
- B
- B
- F
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Ward 8
Courtney Walcott
- D+
- B
- B
- C
- B
- B+
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Gary Bobrovitz
- D
- B
- B
- C
- B
- B
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Ward 9
Lori Masse
- D
- B
- C
- D
- B
- D
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Kimberly Feser
- F
- F
- F
- F
- F
- F
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Naomi Withers
- B
- B
- D
- C
- D
- D
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Gian-Carlo Carra
- D
- B
- B
- B+
- B+
- B-
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Ward 10
Esther Sutherland
- B
- F
- B-
- D
- F
- D
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Jasbir (Jesse) Minhas
- C
- C
- C
- B
- C
- D
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Leslyn Joseph
- A
- A
- B
- B
- B
- B
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Abed Harb
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
- C
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Ward 11
Kourtney Branagan
- D
- C
- C
- C
- C
- B+
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Lauren Herschel
- B
- C
- D
- B
- B
- D
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Ward 12
Teresa Hargreaves
- D
- D-
- D
- D
- F
- F
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Ward 13
Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart
- D-
- B
- B
- D
- B
- F
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Jay Unsworth
- C
- B
- B
- B
- B
- C
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Ward 14
Andrea Hinton
- F
- D-
- F-
- F
- D
- F
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Anton Ovtchinnikov
- D
- D
- D
- D
- F
- D
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Responses from Candidates for Calgary BOE and Separate School Board
Calgary Board of Education
Wards 1 & 2
Dana Downey
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- A
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Melanie Wen
- C
- B
- B+
- B
- C
- C
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Adam Dossa
- D
- D
- F
- D
- D
- F
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Wards 3 & 4
COPA did not receive responses from candidates in Wards 3 & 4
Wards 5 & 10
Humaira Falak
- B+
- B
- B+
- B+
- B+
- B
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Baldev Kaur Tamber
- C+
- B
- D
- C
- B
- B
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Jay Chowdhury
- D
- B
- B
- B+
- F
- B
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Wards 6 & 7
Patricia Bolger
- B
- B
- D
- C+
- C
- C
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Barbara La Pointe
- B
- B
- B
- B
- C
- B
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Carter Thomson
- C
- B
- F
- C
- C
- F
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Wards 8 & 9
Susan Vukadinovic
- A
- A
- B
- B
- C
- D
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David Barrett
- B
- B
- B
- B
- A
- B
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Monica Truong
- B
- F
- D
- B-
- B
- F
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Wards 11 & 13
Shirley Anderson
- B
- F
- D
- B
- B
- B
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Hilary Sellen
- B
- D
- D
- B
- B
- F
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Nancy Close
- B
- B
- B
- C
- C
- A
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Wards 12 & 14
Charlene May
- A
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
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Dar Zuch
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D-
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Calgary Separate School Board
1 & 2, Cochrane
Myra D'Souza
- B+
- B+
- B
- C
- C
- B
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Edney Saldanha
- C
- C+
- C+
- C
- C
- F
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13 & 14
Mary Martin
- C+
- B
- B
- D
- B
- B
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3 & 5, Airdrie
Linda Wellman
- C
- B
- B
- D
- B
- B
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9 & 10
John D. Ramsay
- C+
- B
- B
- B
- D
- B
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