A big anniversary to celebrate today for all my friends from the NDP. It was, of course, on this day in 2015 that Rachel Notley was sworn-in as Premier of Alberta, an accomplishment many would have thought impossible after the decades-long rule by the province’s Progressive Conservatives, which dated back to 1971. (I’m proud to note that a graduate of my high school in Scarborough, Ontario, Craig Coolahan, was elected a member of the new Premier’s caucus, representing the riding of Calgary Klein).
Premier-elect Notley's swearing-in was famously held outdoors, at the Alberta Legislature. Premier Notley would serve in Alberta’s top political job until 2019 when her party went down to defeat at the hands of Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party. Today, Ms. Notley serves as Leader of the Opposition.
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Premier Rachel Notley, at her 2015 swearing-in ceremony/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
Premier Rachel Notley, at her 2015 swearing-in ceremony/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.