Longtime Alberta senator Elaine McCoy, who also served as a Calgary MLA and provincial cabinet minister for years, has died. "In recent years, senator McCoy faced significant health challenges, none of which stopped her from working hard to represent Albertans in the Parliament of Canada. Left to right: Senator Elaine McCoy, Senator Serge Joyal and Senator Thomas Johnson McInnis take part as the Senate committee on modernization holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Oct. 4, 2016. Outgoing Alberta premier Peter Lougheed asked McCoy to run for the seat he held in Calgary-West when he retired. Once elected, McCoy was immediately named to the Progressive Conservative cabinet of premier Don Getty as minister of consumer and corporate affairs and the minister responsible for women's issues.

Source: CBC News December 29, 2020 21:31 UTC