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Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, Redcliff to the northwest are within Cypress County. Medicine Hat was the List of cities in Alberta, eighth-largest city in Alberta in 2021 with a population of 63,271. It is also the sunniest place in Canada according to Environment and Climate Change Canada, averaging 2,544 hours of sunshine a year. Started as a railway town, today Medicine Hat is served by the Trans-Canada Highway (Alberta Highway 1, Highway 1) and the eastern terminus of the Crowsnest Highway (Alberta Highway 3, Highway 3). Nearby communities considered part of the Medicine Hat area include the Town of Redcliff (abutting the city's northwest boundary) and the hamlets of Desert Blume, Dunmore, Alberta, Dunmore, Irvine, Alberta, Irvine, Seven Persons, and Veinervil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Alberta
A city is the highest form of all incorporated List of communities in Alberta#Urban municipalities, urban municipality statuses used in the Canadian Province of Alberta. Alberta cities are created when communities with populations of at least 10,000 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1,850 m², apply to Alberta Municipal Affairs for city status under the authority of the ''Municipal Government Act''. Applications for city status are approved via orders in council made by the lieutenant governor in Council under recommendation from the Minister of Municipal Affairs. Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of in the 2021 Canadian Census, 2021 Census of Population. Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. Beaumont, Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta Municipal Censuses, 2015
Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive. Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision, to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government, or to simply update their populations since the last federal census. Alberta had 357 municipalities between April 1 and June 30, 2015, which marked the closure of the 2015 legislated municipal census period. This was reduced to 356 on July 1, 2015 when the former Village of Minburn dissolved to become a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the County of Minburn No. 27. At least 52 of these municipalities () conducted a municipal census in 2015. Alberta Municipal Affairs recognized those conducted by 50 of these municipalities. By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 12 of Alberta's 18 cities, 20 of 108 towns, 5 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Conservative Party
The United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP) is a conservative political party in the province of Alberta, Canada. It was established in July 2017 as a merger between the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and the Wildrose Party. When established, the UCP immediately formed the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The UCP won a majority mandate in the 2019 Alberta general election to form the government of Alberta. The party won a renewed majority mandate in the 2023 Alberta general election under the leadership of Danielle Smith. Overview In July 2017, the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and the Wildrose Party merged to form the United Conservative Party under the leadership of Jason Kenney, a former cabinet member in the Stephen Harper government. Kenney had won the 2017 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election on a platform of uniting the two parties. Background When the Alberta New Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Wright (politician)
Justin Wright (born 1984 or 1985) is a Canadian politician from the United Conservative Party. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Cypress-Medicine Hat in the 2023 Alberta general election. Wright is a businessman and owns a food truck and catering company. He is originally from London, Ontario London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River (Ontario), Thames River and N .... Electoral history 2023 general election 2023 UCP Cypress-Medicine Hat nomination contest March 16, 2023 References Living people 1980s births Place of birth missing (living people) United Conservative Party MLAs 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post from single-member electoral districts. Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Alberta, as the viceregal representative of the King of Canada. The Legislative Assembly and the Lieutenant Governor together make up the unicameral Alberta Legislature. The maximum period between general elections of the assembly, as set by Section 4 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is five years, which is further reinforced in Alberta's ''Legislative Assembly Act''. Convention dictates the premier controls the date of election and usually selects a date in the fourth or fifth year after the preceding election. Amendments to Alberta's ''Election Act'' introduced in 2024 fixed the date of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner (formerly Medicine Hat) is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1908. Following the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012, 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding was renamed Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner. In 2016, 34.9% of the population of the Medicine Hat constituency were of German Canadians, German ethnic origin, one of the highest percentages in all of Canada. In the 42nd Canadian Parliament, the seat was represented by Jim Hillyer (politician), Jim Hillyer of the Conservative Party of Canada until his death on 23 March 2016. In the first By-elections to the 42nd Canadian Parliament#Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, by-election in the history of the Medicine Hat constituency held on 2016 Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner federal by-election, 24 October 2016, Glen Motz of the Conservatives was elected. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party Of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC; , ), sometimes referred to as the Tories, is a Government of Canada, federal List of political parties in Canada, political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main Right-wing politics, right-leaning parties, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) and the Canadian Alliance, the latter being the successor of the Western Canada, Western Canadian–based Reform Party of Canada, Reform Party. The party sits at the Centre-right politics, centre-right to the Right-wing politics, right of the Politics of Canada, Canadian political spectrum, with their federal rival, the Centrism, centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left Liberal Party of Canada, positioned to their left-wing politics, left. The Conservatives are defined as a "big tent" party, practicing "brokerage politics" and welcoming a broad variety of members, including "Red Tory, Red Tories" and "Blue Tory, Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Motz
Glen Motz (born 1958) is a Canadian politician who was re-elected for his second term to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election on October 21, 2019. Motz was first elected in a by-election on October 24, 2016 after the death of MP Jim Hillyer. He represents the electoral district of Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada."Conservative Glen Motz thanks Trudeau after winning Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner byelection" , October 24, 2016. Personal life Prior to his election, Motz served for 35 years with the |
Current Members Of The Canadian House Of Commons
This is a list of members of the House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Ca ... in the 44th Canadian Parliament. Members Changes since the 2021 election Membership changes Standings Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:House members of the 44th Parliament of Canada, List of +MPs 44 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 825
Area codes 587, 825, and 368 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entire Canadian province of Alberta. They form an overlay with area code 403 of southern Alberta, and northern Alberta's 780. The province-wide overlay complex made ten-digit dialing mandatory throughout the province. History Prior to 1997, numbering plan area 403 comprised Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, as well as a very small western portion of what is today Nunavut (which split off from the Northwest Territories on 1 April 1999). In 1997, use of area code 403 was restricted to Alberta, with the territories receiving new area code 867. In January 1999, the province was divided into two numbering plan areas. The northern two thirds of Alberta, including Edmonton, received area code 780, while leaving 403 to serve Calgary and southern Alberta. The projected exhaust dates for area codes 403 and 780 were March and October 2009, respectively. In 1997, two area c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 403
Area code 403 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Alberta. The numbering plan area encompasses the southern third of the province, which includes the Calgary area. This numbering plan area is also served by area codes 587, 825, and 368, which form a complex overlay for all of Alberta. History Area code 403 was one of nine Canadian area codes of the original North American area codes assigned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1947. Its numbering plan area (NPA) originally comprised the entire province of Alberta. During the course of the expansion of telephone service in the Northwest Territories and Yukon, these were serviced primarily with the same area code starting in 1960, until the territories received area code 867 on October 21, 1997. By early 1997, area code 403 was threatened by exhaustion because of the rapid growth of telecommunication services demand for pagers, cellphones, and comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
