Alberta's Bill 20: Municipal oversight or provincial overreach?

This spring, the UCP government introduced an innocuous-sounding piece of legislation called the "Municipal Affairs Amendment Act." But Bill 20 is anything but benign for most of Alberta's municipal politicians. Many are stomping mad about it. The bill covers a broad swath of changes to how municipalities operate, including modifications to municipal campaign financing, introducing municipal political parties in Calgary and Edmonton and providing mechanisms to grease the wheels for new not-for-p