Mandel eligible to run in election, judge rules

A judge has ruled Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel is eligible to run in the upcoming election. Elections Alberta gave Mandel a five-year ban from politics in January after he was late to submit financial paperwork in 2018. The paperwork was supposed to be filed by Sept. 12—four months after Mandel’s Edmonton-McClung contest—but was instead submitted on Sept. 27. Mandel explained there was a delay in part because his CFO, Brian Heidecker, was sick around the time the campaig