Stoney Nakoda

With federal election voting day just a few weeks away, Sarah Zagoda has announced she is looking to secure the Banff-Airdrie riding for the New Democratic Party (NDP).

“The system is broken, there is certainly corruption in all major parties. The basic ability of an MP to represent his constituents is gone. Everybody kind of knows that if you don’t do the bidding of the leader of your party, your career is going to be a short one. The people who have been a long time are there because they’ve learned how to be quiet, how to keep their heads low and how to kind of play the Ottawa game. I think people are sick of it."

Voters in the Bow Valley had their chance to hear from local candidates in the lead-up to the Sept. 20 federal election.

“I have worked with almost all of the major parties, both provincially and federally. What is concerning to me is the disconnect between the bureaucracies of government and the political platforms and policies people hear during election time.”

“It has a very deep impact on how you raise your children. We were never taught affection, we were never taught to say I love you, we were never told by anybody that we were loved. It was all, every day, degrading comments,” she said. “No matter what we did there was always something wrong with us, and that has deeply affected residential school survivors.” 

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.

A 21-year-old man was charged with second degree murder by the RCMP in the suspected homicide of a six-month-old infant.

Airdrie resident Tariq Elnaga is throwing his cowboy hat into the ring for the next federal election in the Banff-Airdrie riding.

Two years after first entering the political realm, Cochrane's Nadine Wellwood is once again representing the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) in the upcoming federal election.