OTTAWA—A date for a federal byelection in Alberta has been set following the death of Conservative MP Jim Hillyer. The vote in the Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner riding will be held on Monday, Oct. 24. Hillyer, a Conservative, had represented the riding but died of a heart attack in his Parliament Hill office. Hillyer was first elected to the House of Commons in 2011 and was re-elected in a landslide last fall in the new riding of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner. There are other vacancies in the House of Commons.

Source: thestar September 18, 2016 21:45 UTC