City of Calgary Receives Recall Petition to Remove Jyoti Gondek as Mayor

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is facing a recall petition that could end her term in office 18 months before the next municipal election. The City of Calgary announced this week that it received notice of a recall petition against Ms. Gondek on Jan. 30. The document has been officially reviewed and deemed compliant under the province’s Municipal Government Act. The act was updated by the province in 2022 to enable eligible voters to file petitions to recall politicians at both the provincial and municipal level. “This is the first notice of recall petition that has been received by the City Clerk’s Office since the legislation took effect,” city clerk Kate Martin said in a press release. “For the petition to be successful, the representative recall petitioner must collect signatures from at least 40 percent of the population within the city of Calgary.”...