Third-party advertiser Take Back Alberta fined more than $100K by Elections Alberta

Take Back Alberta fined more than $100K by Elections Alberta

Take Back Alberta, a third-party advertiser, has been fined more than $100,000 by Elections Alberta for violations ranging from breaking fundraising rules to improper bookkeeping.

Activist group Take Back Alberta and founder fined $120K by elections agency

Influential pro-UCP group found to have violated multiple political finance rules. But leader David Parker insists its activities shouldn't count as political advertising.

Third-party advertiser Take Back Alberta fined more than $100K by Elections Alberta

Take Back Alberta, the third-party advertiser that made headlines for its role in the high-profile ouster of former premier Jason Kenney, has been fined more than $100,000 by Elections Alberta. The body that oversees provincial election spending and voting rules has fined Take Back Alberta, and its founder David Parker, for a range of violations […]

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Elections Alberta has fined the conservative activist group Take Back Alberta and founder David Parker more $120,000 for political financing violations. The fines, disclosed on the election agency’s website Tuesday, are for more than a dozen violations of Alberta’s election finance law, including circumventing spending limits, accepting contributions from outside Alberta and Canada, and knowingly making false statements in a financial report to …