EBC final report backtracks on proposed northern Indigenous riding

By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The Electoral Boundaries Commission (EBC) has backtracked on a contentious proposal to establish a riding with 18 Indigenous communities by reducing the number of northern Alberta ridings in its March 23 final report. The EBC’s purpose was to determine how to increase the number of ridings in the Legislative Assembly to 89 from 87 while balancing population growth in Calgary and Edmonton with the need to provide effective representation to regions with declining populations, including the north. The interim report, released in October 2025, proposed reducing the number of ridings in northern Alberta to eight from nine, replacing the Lesser Slave Lake and Peace River ridings with the new riding of Mackenzie, citing the “desirability of an electoral division having…

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