{"id":531990,"date":"2026-03-12T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:47:08","slug":"former-edmonton-mayor-sohi-lands-job-at-public-affairs-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531990\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Edmonton mayor Sohi lands job at public affairs firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former elected officials in Edmonton are turning the page on politics with a pair of new careers.<\/p>\n<p>Former mayor Amarjeet Sohi and former councillor Tim Cartmell are starting new roles.<\/p>\n<p>Sohi, also the former federal minister of natural resources, has joined public affairs firms New West as a senior advisor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic service has always been about bringing people together to solve problems,\u201d said Sohi in a news release. \u201cI\u2019m excited to join New West and continue that work by helping organizations understand government, build relationships, and move good ideas forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sohi was Edmonton\u2019s mayor from 2021 to 2025 after four years in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Cartmell, who left municipal politics after a failed mayoral bid to replace Sohi, is joining the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).<\/p>\n<p>Cartmell\u2019s new title is associate vice-president of major capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>Cartmell was a two-term city councillor in Edmonton, from 2017 to 2025, before losing to Andrew Knack in the race for mayor last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two former elected officials in Edmonton are turning the page on politics with a pair of new careers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-531990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531990","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=531990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}