{"id":760678,"date":"2026-06-25T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:48:58","slug":"mike-derry-wins-ucp-nomination-in-calgary-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760678\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Derry wins UCP nomination in Calgary-Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p> Local entrepreneur Mike Derry won the nomination to run for the UCP in Calgary-Shaw, beating city councillor Dan McLean.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the party said the oil and gas industry veteran will bring practical leadership to the UCP team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sincere thank you to Dan McLean for putting your name forward and running a tremendous race,\u201d the party added.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Danielle Smith posted her congratulations to Derry on Facebook for securing the nomination<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to stop by and congratulate him in person after a very close race,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to sincerely thank Dan McLean for putting his name forward. Dan has been a strong advocate for Calgary and I know he will continue making a positive difference for our city and our province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McLean congratulated Derry in a post on X, and\u00a0vowed to continue to stand for conservative principles at city hall.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary-Shaw was held by former UCP cabinet minister Rebecca Schulz. She resigned from cabinet in December but stayed in the legislature until mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>Under provincial law, a byelection must be called within six months after a seat is vacated.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-760678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760678","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=760678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}