Posted on November 12, 2020
CALGARY - Jason Kenney and the UCP are cutting corners on fire safety in the construction of the Calgary Cancer Centre, and Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling on them to reverse decisions…
Posted on November 9, 2020
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the Alberta UCP are attacking injured workers and making Alberta worksites more unsafe under their dangerous Bill 47, experts say. Last week, the UCP introduced changes to…
Posted on November 9, 2020
CALGARY - NDP MLA for Calgary-McCall Irfan Sabir is calling on Premier Jason Kenney to visit northeast Calgary to survey the damage still left by June’s hailstorm in the hopes that the UCP will finally…
Posted on November 7, 2020
“I want to sincerely congratulate President-elect Joe Biden, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. Vice President-elect Harris has made history as the first woman of colour in the…
Posted on November 6, 2020
CALGARY - Alberta’s NDP is proposing a suite of options to grow Alberta’s geothermal energy sector, create jobs, and export technology to meet global demand for expertise in the growing industry.…
Posted on November 6, 2020
EDMONTON - A bill brought forward by MLA Peter Singh, a member of Jason Kenney’s UCP caucus, will ask the legislature to remember, condemn and prevent genocide — but it pointedly excludes documented…
Posted on November 5, 2020
EDMONTON – Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley issued the following statements in response to today’s report by the Auditor General of Alberta, and Bill 47 tabled by the UCP Government. “Today’s…
Posted on November 5, 2020
EDMONTON -- Profits at insurance companies continue to skyrocket after the UCP removed the cap on auto insurance premiums, according to new financial returns. Intact Financial Corporation, Alberta’s…
Posted on November 3, 2020
EDMONTON - By imposing tolls on a bridge planned for Tompkins Crossing near La Crete, Jason Kenney is breaking a campaign promise and opening the door to widespread tolls on drivers across Alberta. Bill…
Posted on November 3, 2020
EDMONTON - The Alberta NDP is calling on the UCP to immediately release the full and unredacted fiscal analysis used to make the decision to speed up the $4.7-billion corporate handout, after key documents…
Posted on November 2, 2020
EDMONTON - The UCP voted to shut down a motion that would have expressed the support of the Legislature for a united Canada to appease their separatist base. “Today, we learned that Jason Kenney is…
Posted on November 2, 2020
EDMONTON - Thomas Dang, NDP MLA for Edmonton-South and Opposition Critic for Infrastructure, is calling on the UCP government to get the new Edmonton hospital project back on schedule, and abandon misguided…
Posted on October 30, 2020
“Introducing user fees for cross-country skiing is just the start of the UCP charging Albertans to access Alberta’s parks. Closing and selling 184 parks wasn't enough for the UCP, now they want to…
Posted on October 30, 2020
NDP Energy Critic Kathleen Ganley issued the following statement regarding the UCP’s announcement of the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP): “The UCP has cancelled economic diversification…
Posted on October 30, 2020
EDMONTON - NDP Community and Social Services Critic MLA Marie Renaud joined several Alberta AISH recipients to reflect on what she learned and experienced after living on the typical budget of an AISH…
Posted on October 30, 2020
CALGARY - A member of Jason Kenney’s Caucus has been caught on video angrily insisting that the 11,000 hospital workers being fired by the UCP Government “are not frontline healthcare workers.”…
Posted on October 29, 2020
Alberta NDP Education Critic Sarah Hoffman issued the following statement: “The Alberta NDP have been calling for a cap on class sizes since July. Now, with outbreaks at an all-time high, we see a loosening…
Posted on October 29, 2020
MEDICINE HAT - NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley was joined by parents in Medicine Hat today to call on Premier Jason Kenney to protect the Medicine Hat Maternity Clinic and drop his plans to fire 11,000…
Posted on October 29, 2020
EDMONTON - New data shows testing rates declined below 10,000 this week, dramatically below the 20,000 tests per day Jason Kenney promised to achieve by mid-May. Earlier this year, the UCP government…
Posted on October 29, 2020
EDMONTON - In the wake of the latest member of Jason Kenney’s Government Caucus denying climate change, Alberta’s NDP will be calling in Question Period for a full denouncement of these harmful views,…
Posted on October 28, 2020
“This new legislation has done absolutely nothing to recognize and support that child care is about early learning. If we want a strong, diversified economy, we need to invest in the quality of early…
Posted on October 28, 2020
EDMONTON -- A member of Premier Jason Kenney’s UCP caucus denied climate change in a speech in the Alberta legislature today, and argued that humans should be burning more fossil fuels. Garth Rowswell,…
Posted on October 28, 2020
Edmonton - The Alberta NDP are calling on the UCP to freeze insurance premiums until 2021. Insurance premiums are skyrocketing. Insurance companies are profiting. And economic pressures of COVID-19 are…
Posted on October 27, 2020
CALGARY – Alberta’s NDP Caucus, along with parents and educators, are calling on the UCP government to formally reject the curriculum advice they commissioned from a panel of hand-picked advisors. …
Posted on October 27, 2020
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney must take immediate action in response to surging COVID-19 cases to protect Albertans’ safety and prevent a return to economic restrictions. “Jason Kenney is not living…
