Posted on December 4, 2020
EDMONTON - Job figures released by Statistics Canada show 11,000 jobs were lost in November as Premier Jason Kenney and his UCP government fail to get a second wave of COVID-19 under control. According…
Posted on December 3, 2020
EDMONTON - NDP Finance Critic Shannon Phillips introduced a private members bill to protect Albertans’ retirement savings after the UCP government has proven unable to manage the province’s finances…
Posted on December 2, 2020
EDMONTON – The UCP government’s Bill 47 proposes dangerous changes to the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. “Given the cruel comments Jason Kenney made last…
Posted on December 1, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP has obtained internal modelling from Alberta Health Services that shows increasing strain on Alberta hospitals and specifically intensive care units. The data was provided by…
Posted on November 30, 2020
EDMONTON - UCP Health Minister Tyler Shandro lied to Albertans today and denied that Calgary hospitals were short of oxygen due to the COVID crisis, despite a recent AHS memo warning clinical staff of…
Posted on November 28, 2020
The NDP are renewing their call for Jason Kenney and the UCP to provide more support for Albertans experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. As well, the Opposition believes daily statistics…
Posted on November 27, 2020
EDMONTON – Almost seven months after the federal government announced billions of dollars intended to top up wages for essential workers during the pandemic, the UCP have only accessed a fraction of…
Posted on November 26, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Opposition is calling for the establishment of an independent COVID-19 advisory group to report data and provide advice to Albertans, following the revelation that Dr Deena…
Posted on November 26, 2020
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney revealed in an online discussion Wednesday that he buckled to pressure from his Caucus when deciding not to implement a provincial mask mandate and also suggested that…
Posted on November 25, 2020
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney must come clean with Albertans and publicly release all of the COVID-19 recommendations Dr. Deena Hinshaw presented to cabinet this week, including the public health measures…
Posted on November 24, 2020
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney failed to confront the out-of-control spread of COVID-19 infections in Alberta today, and emerged from 12 days of hiding to announce a small package of half-measures. “Albertans…
Posted on November 24, 2020
EDMONTON - The UCP have tabled a second-quarter update that paints an overly optimistic picture of Alberta’s economy as the province is in the midst of a second wave of COVID-19. On Tuesday, UCP Finance…
Posted on November 24, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP learned more details about the scathing Auditor General Report November 2020 in which the Auditor General caught $1.6 billion dollars in accounting errors. In the meeting, the…
Posted on November 23, 2020
EDMONTON - While hiding from public scrutiny for nine straight days, Premier Jason Kenney told a private meeting that his COVID-19 response is “effective.” During a Zoom meeting of the Canada India…
Posted on November 22, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition will be seeking an emergency debate on Monday afternoon on the record case counts of COVID-19 seen over the weekend, the lack of information being provided…
Posted on November 22, 2020
CALGARY - Associate Health Minister Jason Luan told constituents in a virtual town hall that Alberta hospitals will have to be pushed to the limit before Jason Kenney and the UCP will consider any new…
Posted on November 20, 2020
EDMONTON - Canada’s Chief Medical Officer of Health released national-level COVID-19 modelling to Canadians today, while Premier Jason Kenney continues to withhold his government’s own analysis from…
Posted on November 19, 2020
EDMONTON - The BC government is implementing a mandatory mask policy today, only hours after the UCP government in Alberta refused to even commit to their own caucus members wearing them. The BC policy…
Posted on November 19, 2020
EDMONTON - UCP Education Minister Adriana LaGrange’s cuts to per-pupil funding and failure to plan for COVID-19 has left schools unable to hire newly trained Alberta teachers, even though the pandemic…
Posted on November 18, 2020
CALGARY -- NDP Indigenous Relations Critic Richard Feehan and Indigenous organizations and advocates came together Wednesday to call on the UCP government to include Indigenous genocide in Bill 205: the…
Posted on November 18, 2020
EDMONTON - NDP Leader Rachel Notley is calling on Jason Kenney and the UCP government to implement a mandatory mask policy for all public indoor spaces in all regions on the enhanced list. “The number…
Posted on November 17, 2020
EDMONTON - After learning that some health care workers who are sick or must isolate are being forced to take leave without pay, Alberta’s NDP and representatives for healthcare workers are calling…
Posted on November 16, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP and small business owners are calling for a suite of support measures for struggling small businesses in light of new, last-minute COVID-19 measures announced by the UCP government…
Posted on November 13, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Opposition has joined the Information and Privacy Commissioner in publicly calling on UCP Health Minister Tyler Shandro to pull back Bill 46 until her concerns over its harm…
Posted on November 12, 2020
EDMONTON – Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley issued the respond to today’s COVID-19 update from Jason Kenney and the announcement of new public safety measures: “I extend my deepest condolences to…
