Posted on September 22, 2020
EDMONTON – Today’s announcement of a federal cash injection into Alberta’s child care centres provides no long-term solution to the child care crisis, says the Alberta NDP Official Opposition. Alberta…
Posted on September 21, 2020
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP government’s plan to eliminate some forms of disabilities from being eligible for the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) program is distressing…
Posted on September 21, 2020
“Today the UCP announced $2.1 million in grants for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Red Deer College and Olds College through the province’s Research Capacity Grant – a cost-shared…
Posted on September 18, 2020
EDMONTON - Today, UCP MLAs voted to prevent Dr. Deena Hinshaw from speaking to the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee, an appearance she had already agreed to and UCP MLAs had previously…
Posted on September 18, 2020
“I am deeply concerned to learn of the first case of in-school COVID-19 transmission. My heart goes out to the students, staff, families and community of Waverley School. I wish a speedy recovery to…
Posted on September 17, 2020
CALGARY – After the shocking revelation from Jason Kenney that his UCP government is planning to eliminate some forms of disabilities from being eligible for the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped…
Posted on September 17, 2020
EDMONTON-- NDP Seniors and Housing Critic Lori Sigurdson is calling on Health Minister Tyler Shandro to order an immediate investigation of the Good Samaritan Southgate Care Centre, in light of recent…
Posted on September 16, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition has formally asked Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner to direct the Minister of Education to release hidden documents related to school re-entry.…
Posted on September 15, 2020
“I have heard from thousands of Albertans all summer that they are deeply worried about Jason Kenney’s plan to close and sell our provincial parks. The Premier had an opportunity today to reverse…
Posted on September 15, 2020
EDMONTON - In an act of unimaginable cruelty and callousness, Jason Kenney heavily implied in a press conference Tuesday he’s planning to kick Albertans off the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped…
Posted on September 15, 2020
EDMONTON - The NDP Official Opposition is calling on Minister Adriana LaGrange and her office to publicly release documents about the COVID-19 response in Alberta schools after a series of Freedom of…
Posted on September 15, 2020
EDMONTON -- The UCP are pressing ahead on their agenda to create an Alberta Pension Plan, despite devastating new information revealing additional and significant underperformance at the Alberta Investment…
Posted on September 14, 2020
EDMONTON - Education Minister Adriana LaGrange must emerge from hiding today and answer eight key questions about her mishandling of school re-entry. There are 48 schools with confirmed cases of COVID-19…
Posted on September 12, 2020
EDMONTON - With the Minister of Community and Social Services Minister Rajan Sawhney publicly ruling out further deep cuts to the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped Program, the UCP need now…
Posted on September 11, 2020
EDMONTON - The UCP needs to immediately stop any planned cuts to AISH following reports from Postmedia that the UCP is considering further heartless cuts to the supports Albertans with disabilities rely…
Posted on September 11, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling on Education Minister Adriana LaGrange to show up at today’s daily COVID-19 briefing with Dr. Deena Hinshaw. More than a week after Alberta…
Posted on September 10, 2020
“I am very pleased that the courts upheld the principles of Medicare today against those who would try to Americanize our public healthcare system. “The court concluded, based on expert evidence,…
Posted on September 10, 2020
EDMONTON – Safety concerns with the UCP’s school reopening are forcing some women to remove themselves from the workforce in order to stay home with their children. “It isn’t much of a choice…
Posted on September 10, 2020
Shannon Phillips, MLA for Lethbridge-West issued the following statement regarding an outbreak of COVID-19 in a Lethbridge school: “Parents, teachers, and families are worried as kids return to class.…
Posted on September 9, 2020
EDMONTON – Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley issued the following statement in response to the announcement of the first AIOC-backed project. “While investment in the Cascade Power Project is good…
Posted on September 9, 2020
EDMONTON - With confirmed cases of COVID in dozens of Alberta schools, the UCP government has agreed to produce the website reporting these cases called for by Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition. “Alberta…
Posted on September 9, 2020
EDMONTON - Today the UCP members of the Select Special Democratic Accountability Committee voted to block an invitation to former Election Commissioner Lorne Gibson to present to the committee. The…
Posted on September 9, 2020
EDMONTON - With cases of COVID-19 confirmed in at least 20 schools, the Official Opposition strongly urges the government to act immediately, cap class sizes, and physically distance Alberta students.…
Posted on September 4, 2020
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney must stop stalling and release a plan to support essential frontline workers with wage top-ups, demands the Alberta NDP Caucus. As we approach Labour Day the UCP government…
Posted on September 4, 2020
CALGARY -- The UCP’s so-called economic recovery has stalled as more Albertans gave up looking for work than those who found jobs last month, according to the latest Statistics Canada figures. “Before…
