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
Dwight G. Hickey
- D
- D
- D
- D
- D
- F
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S.H. (Buck) Buchanan
- C
- C
- C
- C
- F
- D
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Ken Johnston
- C
- C
- C
- C
- B
- C
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Brad Magee
- B
- C
- C
- B
- F
- F
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Responses from Candidates for Council
Brenda Campbell
- B
- B
- B
- B-
- B+
- F
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Bruce Buruma
- B-
- B
- B-
- D
- A
- D
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Calvin Campbell
- B
- B
- B
- D
- F
- D
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Cindy Jefferies
- C
- C
- C
- B-
- C
- D
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Craig Curtis
- B-
- A
- B+
- D
- D-
- D
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Dax Williams
- F
- B-
- B
- B-
- C
- D
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Dianne Wyntjes
- A
- A
- A
- B+
- D+
- D
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Graham Barclay
- D
- B-
- D
- D
- D
- F
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Hans Huizing
- D
- B+
- B
- D
- D
- D
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Lawrence Lee
- B-
- B
- D
- D
- B
- D
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Lisa Spencer-Cook
- B
- B
- B
- B-
- A
- D
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Ryan Andrew Laloge
- D
- C
- C
- D
- F
- C
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Sadia Kahn
- A
- B+
- A
- D
- D
- D
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Vesna Higham
- D
- B-
- A
- F
- D
- F
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Victor Doerksen
- D
- D
- D
- D
- F
- D
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Responses from Candidates for Public and Catholic School Board
Public School Board
Dianne Macaulay
- C+
- C-
- D
- D
- C-
- C
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Meagan Parisian
- C+
- C-
- F
- C
- C
- B+
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Terri Grills
- B+
- C
- B
- B
- B+
- A
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Jaelene Tweedle
- B+
- B
- B
- B
- C+
- A
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Angela Sommers
- B
- C
- D
- B
- B
- B
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Bev Manning
- D
- B
- C-
- D
- B
- F
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Cathy Peacocke
- C
- C
- D
- C-
- D
- B
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Catholic School Board
Vanessa Mariani
- A
- B+
- D
- C
- B
- D
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Murray Hollman
- D
- C
- C
- B
- C
- D
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Robert Wiens
- C
- C-
- C-
- C-
- C+
- B
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Sharla Heistad
- B
- B-
- B
- B
- D
- D+
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