Case challenging 2015 snap election call gets its day in court

A court case challenging former Premier Jim Prentice’s decision to call an early election in 2015 — as well as the meaning of Alberta’s fixed election laws more generally — got its day in court Thursday.
Donald Rigney, who planned to seek a Wildrose Party nomination in the last election, and Tom Engel, an Edmonton defence lawyer, sought an injunction in March 2015 in an attempt to stop Prentice from calling the snap election.
Rigney told the court he had “arranged h