Polls have closed in Alberta’s municipal elections, and vote counting has begun to determine the winners of mayoral, council, and school board trustee races.
Voters in Edmonton are deciding on a new mayor, with incumbent Amarjeet Sohi, a former cabinet minister under Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government who took a temporary leave of absence to make an unsuccessful run in the April federal election as a Liberal candidate, not seeking re-election.
Voters will instead choose a new mayor from a pool of 13 candidates, among them long-time city councillor Andrew Knack, former city councillors Tim Cartmell, Michael Walters, and Tony Caterina, as well as Rahim Jaffer, who was a Conservative MP for Edmonton-Strathcona from 1997 to 2008, and pediatric dental surgeon Omar Mohammed….