Calgary Signal Hill

Calgary Signal Hill covers a broad swath of western Calgary, stretching from the Bow River in the north to Glenmore Trail in the south and from the city's western limits to approximately 37 Street SW. The riding was created through the 2012 redistribution from parts of the former Calgary West and Calgary Centre ridings and first contested in the 2015 election.

The riding encompasses a mix of established and newer communities, including Signal Hill, Springbank Hill, Aspen Woods, West Springs, Discovery Ridge, Cougar Ridge, Crestmont, Wentworth, Coach Hill, Patterson, Bowness, Valley Ridge, Wildwood, Spruce Cliff, Glenbrook, Glendale, Rosscarrock, Westgate, Christie Park, Strathcona Park, and Glamorgan. The western portion of the riding includes some of Calgary's most affluent neighbourhoods, while the eastern communities are older and more modestly priced.

Candidates

David GL McKenzie (Conservative) is a King's Counsel with over 30 years of experience as a lawyer, corporate director, and former Foreign Service Officer. Early in his career, he left private practice to serve with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, providing trade law counsel in Ottawa and serving as Commercial Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Venezuela. He has lived in the Signal Hill riding for more than 20 years and served nine years as a director of the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Association, including four as president.

Bryndis Whitson (Liberal) is a supply chain and logistics professional who holds a double Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary in Urban Studies, Geography, Political Science, and Transportation. A long-time Strathcona resident, she has been active in the Liberal Party at both the provincial and federal levels and has worked on clean water initiatives and career transition support.

Khalis Ahmed (NDP) is an educator and professional geologist with over two decades of experience in Alberta's energy sector. He teaches scientific literacy and emerging technology at the post-secondary level and serves as Vice President of an Islamic Centre in Calgary. He is a Signal Hill resident.

Grant Strem (People's Party) is a Calgary-born energy sector professional and entrepreneur who invented a process for producing clean hydrogen from depleted oil fields. He has worked in energy exploration, reserves evaluation, and banking, and is now a global energy transition policy consultant.

Paul Godard (Canadian Future Party) ran as the CFP candidate in the riding.

About the Riding

Calgary Signal Hill's character ranges from the affluent estates of Aspen Woods and Springbank Hill in the west, where homes routinely sell for over a million dollars, to the more modest bungalows and mid-century housing stock of Bowness, Wildwood, and Rosscarrock in the east. This economic diversity gives the riding a broader range of concerns than many Calgary suburban seats.

Bowness, the oldest community in the riding, has undergone a gradual revitalization that has brought new restaurants and small businesses to its main street, though concerns about crime and homelessness along the Bow River pathway have become more prominent. The western communities, meanwhile, are relatively new and contend with issues typical of suburban expansion, including traffic congestion along Stoney Trail and the Bow Trail corridor, and limited transit access.

Energy policy is always a live issue in a riding where many residents work in the oil and gas sector or in the corporate offices that line the western highway corridors. Heading into the 2025 election, affordability, the cost of the federal carbon tax, U.S. trade relations, and healthcare access were the dominant campaign themes. The riding has been safely Conservative since its creation, and the 2025 contest was no exception.