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What does Diane Colley-Urquhart believe in?

The contortions of a 21-year career city councillor

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Jeremy Appel
Sep 22, 2021
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When she first ran for Calgary City Council in 2000, Diane Colley-Urquhart pitched herself as not your average “career politician”.

“If elected, I will serve two terms, then get out so there can be fresh leadership,” Colley-Urquhart told the Calgary Herald shortly before the July 2000 by-election that brought her onto council.

Twenty-one years later, sh…

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