{"id":527341,"date":"2026-03-10T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:26:10","slug":"citizen-led-recall-bid-against-alberta-premier-danielle-smith-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527341\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen-led recall bid against\u00a0Alberta\u00a0Premier Danielle Smith fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A petition looking to oust\u00a0Alberta\u00a0Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is the second premier in Alberta\u2019s history to face a recall petition, with the other happening nearly 90 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Heather VanSnick says her campaign against Smith gathered almost 2,300 of the roughly 12,000 signatures it needed to move the process forward.<\/p>\n<p>VanSnick says she still thinks the petition was useful and that 2,300 people calling for better representation in Smith\u2019s Brooks-Medicine Hat riding sends a powerful message.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is one of 24 members of the United Conservative Party caucus who had petitions launched against them late last year.<\/p>\n<p>VanSnick had said she was doing it because Smith was ignoring residents and experts when developing policies, a claim the premier denied and pushed back against.<\/p>\n<p>So far, none of the petitions targeting members of Smith\u2019s caucus have reached their required number of signatures.<\/p>\n<p>More coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A petition looking to oust\u00a0Alberta\u00a0Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed. Smith is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-527341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}