Alberta NDP and UCP nominate candidates for Edmonton-Ellerslie riding
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Alberta's two major parties have nominated their candidates for the Edmonton-Ellerslie riding.
The riding has been left vacant since March after longtime Alberta NDP member Rod Loyola resigned from his seat to run in the federal 2025 election as the Liberal candidate for Edmonton Gateway, but was removed after a video from 2009 resurfaced in which he praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, while speaking at an anti-NATO protest outside Edmonton City Hall.
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