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Volume 112, Issue 12
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
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Celebrating New Beginnings CHSPS Class of 2019
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CHSPS Class of 2019 graduate Chloe Fee enjoys a dance with her father Les Fee on Saturday, Sept. 14 during commencement ceremonies at the Wild Rose Co-op Recreation Centre. Fee and her 43 fellow classmates celebrated under the theme “New Beginnings.” See full coverage, Page 2, 26, and 27.
Writ dropped - Federal election called for Oct. 21 Leslie Cholowsky Editor
On Wednesday, Sept. 11 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the honourable Governor General Julie Payette, asking her to dissolve parliament, which marks the launch of the 43rd national general election, which will officially take place Oct. 21. Battle River Crowfoot only has three official candidates so far: Conservative Party of Canada candidate Damien Kurek, Green Party of Canada candidate Geordie Nelson, and People’s Party of Canada candidate David Michaud. The filing deadline for any potential candidate is 21 days before Election Day, at 2 p.m. local time. You do not need to reside in an electoral district to seek election there. In a federal election, Members of Parliament are
elected by winning the most votes in their respective ridings. The party whose candidates win the most seats generally forms the government, with that party’s leader becoming Prime Minister. The party whose candidates win the secondlargest number of seats becomes the Official Opposition. In the 2015 Canadian federal election, Battle River Crowfoot elected Conservative Kevin Sorenson with 80.91 per cent of the vote, and 73 per cent of the riding turned out to vote, more than the national average of 68.3. In 2015, the Battle River-Crowfoot riding was created by combining parts of the Crowfoot and parts of Vegreville-Wainwright. Flagstaff County was previously within the Veg-
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reville-Wainwright riding, who in 2011 elected Conservative Leon Benoit, with 79.79 per cent of the vote, but just a 59.59 per cent voter turnout. That was still an improvement over the 2008 federal election, when just 54 per cent of electors turned up to vote. According to Elections Canada, some changes in this election will allow non-resident electors to vote from abroad if they have at any time been a resident in Canada. So any Canadian elector living abroad who has previously resident in Canada is entitled to vote by special ballot in federal elections regardless of how long they have been living abroad. The vouching process has changed, too. Eligible vouchers now include any elector assigned to a polling station, as long as they know the person for See ELECTION P19 Funded by the Government of Canada