Posted on September 3, 2020
EDMONTON – Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition supports Edmonton’s City Council’s calling on the federal and provincial governments to assist them in acquiring more housing to urgently address homelessness…
Posted on September 3, 2020
CALGARY - Albertans who live with their grandchildren or have a critical role in their care are at increased risk from COVID-19 as Premier Jason Kenney refuses to reduce school class sizes during a deadly…
Posted on September 2, 2020
EDMONTON -- Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government, the UCP are still refusing to put the money towards smaller class sizes. The announcement comes a week after…
Posted on September 1, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling on Education Minister Adriana LaGrange to quit delaying the distribution of federal money to school boards and distribute it immediately through…
Posted on August 31, 2020
EDMONTON -- Days before kids go back to school, the UCP government has revised public health orders after risking breaking their own previous orders due to underfunding and overcrowding in schools. …
Posted on August 28, 2020
EDMONTON - Jason Kenney and the UCP revealed documents Thursday that show a $12 billion deficit for 2019-2020, doubling the deficit by the previous NDP government. The fiscal update did not provide a…
Posted on August 28, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling on Education Minister Adriana LaGrange to use new federal money to make Alberta schools safe immediately and help protect students, staff, families…
Posted on August 27, 2020
EDMONTON -- The UCP’s fiscal update shows their plan had nearly doubled the deficit while failing to create jobs or grow the economy even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The update shows that Alberta’s…
Posted on August 26, 2020
CALGARY -- The NDP Official Opposition are calling on the UCP government to limit class sizes by using existing empty space to physically distance students. On Wednesday, NDP Education Critic Sarah…
Posted on August 24, 2020
EDMONTON -- Families of students heading into overcrowded classes during a pandemic are being faced with a terrible choice, between education and safety. Dennis and Linda Coulthard’s granddaughter is…
Posted on August 21, 2020
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP government are telling municipalities that their roads and bridges will be built faster if they agree to impose tolls on Albertans who use them. In a series of tweets…
Posted on August 20, 2020
EDMONTON -- The NDP Official Opposition is calling on Premier Jason Kenney to apologize for promoting an opinion piece which gives different advice than Alberta’s public health officials, and which…
Posted on August 19, 2020
EDMONTON – The Alberta NDP Caucus is joining the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta’s call for Jason Kenney to remove racist members of his staff and the curriculum review panel. In a…
Posted on August 18, 2020
EDMONTON – Alberta NDP Critic for Community and Social Services Marie Renaud issued the following statement after news that the UCP government has dramatically reduced staff at the Office of the Advocate…
Posted on August 18, 2020
EDMONTON –Jason Kenney and the UCP government should fulfill its commitment to support Campus Saint-Jean instead of going to court to defend its attacks on Francophone education in Alberta. On Monday,…
Posted on August 17, 2020
CALGARY - One year ago today, UCP Energy Minister Sonya Savage admitted to the media she was “a little disappointed” that Premier Jason Kenney’s $4.7-billion corporate handout, a “windfall”…
Posted on August 17, 2020
EDMONTON - Scores of Alberta teachers and educational assistants have come forward to the NDP Opposition to say they’re ready and willing to help make schools safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, but…
Posted on August 13, 2020
EDMONTON -- The UCP’s recently appointed curriculum review panel consists only of men, and includes a former Jason Kenney political staffer that has published racist and anti-Indigenous materials. The…
Posted on August 11, 2020
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Opposition joined teachers in a makeshift classroom Tuesday to demonstrate that maintaining proper physical distancing in schools will be impossible without more funding from…
Posted on August 11, 2020
EDMONTON - Family doctors in Alberta continue to close their practices in response to ongoing UCP hostility, and some are leaving the province altogether. “Alberta families are losing their doctor in…
Posted on August 10, 2020
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP must step in and directly address staff challenges at the site of Alberta’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak before the virus spreads and more lives are lost. Instead…
Posted on August 5, 2020
EDMONTON -- Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is joining with parents of students with learning disabilities to call for supports to protect them and their specific learning needs as schools are due…
Posted on July 30, 2020
EDMONTON - Changes to employment standards in Bill 32, which was passed by the UCP majority on Wednesday, have dire consequences for the pay and working conditions of both union and non-union working…
Posted on July 29, 2020
EDMONTON -- After the spring sitting of the Legislature, Albertans have been left even further behind by Jason Kenney and his UCP government. The UCP rammed through a budget full of cuts and broken promises,…
Posted on July 28, 2020
EDMONTON -- Pediatricians and school health specialists are describing the plan put forward by Jason Kenney and the UCP to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic as dangerous and calling on the…
