Overview

• Tony Wakeham’s PCs won 21 seats to form a majority government, with the Liberals at 15 seats and two seats each for the NDP and Independents, according to final counts reported overnight.
• Across rural districts the PCs retained all 14 incumbent seats and flipped targets such as St. George’s–Humber, while three rural districts stayed Liberal with wins by Elvis Loveless, Paul Pike and Michael King.
• Alberta’s provincewide teachers’ strike that began Oct. 6 kept about 740,000 students out of classrooms, with the ATA set to meet the provincial bargaining committee after teachers rejected a 12% over four years offer tied to hiring 3,000 teachers.
• Edmonton logged about 41,340 advance voters over five days, averaging roughly 8,200 per day versus 6,400 in 2021, as Calgary’s advance voting proceeds alongside campaigns described by a local opinion column as split between forward-focused and rollback agendas.
• New Brunswick again issued layoff notices to more than 100 school library and administrative assistants, the union CUPE Local 2745 said, with leaders consulting legal counsel on next steps.