Cory Morgan (born in 1971) is a

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blogger,

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politician and activist, and columnist for the ''

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''. He was one of the founders of the Alberta Independence Party in 2000. He was also a founding member of the

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Biography

Morgan was born in

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, Canada, raised in

Banff, Alberta Banff is a resort town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Calgary, east of Lake Louise, Alberta, Lake Louise, and above Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within ...

, and later lived in

Priddis, Alberta Priddis is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Foothills County. It is located in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies at an elevation of . The hamlet is located southwest of the intersection of the Cowboy Trail (Highway 22) and Highway 22X, ap ...

. He is a survey consultant in the field of energy exploration, particularly oil field surveying. He is also a blogger, with a focus on

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, particularly

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. He is a Senior Alberta Columnist for the ''

''. In the 1990s, Morgan was an active member of the

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. From 1999 to 2000, he served as a director of the

Alberta Party The Alberta Party, formally the Alberta Party Political Association from 1998 to 2004, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada. The party describes itself as centrist and pragmatic in that it is not dogmatically ideological in ...

. He was one of the founders of the Alberta Independence Party in 2000. In 2001, he ran as an independent candidate in the riding of

Banff-Cochrane Banff-Cochrane was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 1975, and again from 1979 to 2019. The Banff-Cochrane electoral district is home to th ...

. Following the dissolution of the AIP at the end of 2001, Morgan joined the Separation Party of Alberta. He was the SPA's candidate in Highwood in the provincial election of 2004. Morgan later joined the

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in 2006. He was a founding member of the

. He served in the provincial executive positions of VP Policy and Southern zone director. He was a candidate for the

Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta The Wildrose Party (legally Wildrose Political Association, formerly the ''Wildrose Alliance Political Association'') was a conservative provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. The party was formed by the merger in early 2008 of the Alb ...

, in the

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in the Alberta general election of 2008, finishing in third place with 887 votes. On November 6, 2011, Morgan drove his pickup truck into the Occupy Calgary camp at Olympic Plaza park. Morgan refused to leave his truck until police removed him, was fined $200 and towed. His purpose was part of a counter-protest against Occupy Calgary and a bid to highlight what he felt was unequal enforcement of city bylaws with respect to the Occupy camp and the public at large. Morgan ran in the

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as a

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, finishing in fifth-place with 424 votes. Following the

2019 Canadian federal election The 2019 Canadian federal election was held on October 21, 2019. Members of the House of Commons were elected to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. In keeping with the maximum four-year term under a 2007 amendment to the ''Canada Elections Act'', ...

, Morgan returned to his Western separatist roots, calling on his supporters to join him.

Electoral history

References

External links

Blog – ''Cory Morgan ranting and raving: Political and Personal''Twitter page
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