Posted on March 11, 2021
"In December, I called on the UCP to provide rapid testing in our schools. Staff and students had just gone through months of being pummeled by the effects of COVID-19 without any support from the Government.…
Posted on March 11, 2021
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP are calling on the UCP government to permanently stop their attempt to lower the age of eligibility for former foster children who access Support and Financial Assistance Agreements.…
Posted on March 11, 2021
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP and small business owners are calling on the UCP government to provide more support for the industries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Small businesses already…
Posted on March 10, 2021
CALGARY - Calgary public and Catholic families will not be getting any new schools according to this year’s provincial government Capital Plan, despite growing enrolment in Alberta’s largest city. …
Posted on March 9, 2021
"I speak with Alberta students, staff and families every day. They are calling for less crowded classrooms, a modern curriculum we can be proud of, and more supports for students with complex needs. Minister…
Posted on March 9, 2021
“Organizations have had to navigate how to meet the requirements in their bylaws while balancing public health orders for over a year. I wish the UCP offered more guidance to organizations sooner and…
Posted on March 9, 2021
EDMONTON - After more than a year of putting themselves and their families at risk during a deadly pandemic, thousands of Alberta’s frontline healthcare heroes are still facing layoffs from Premier…
Posted on March 9, 2021
EDMONTON – The Northwest Territories government is preparing to drop the Alberta curriculum after more than 40 years of partnership, in response to the widely-criticized rewrite by Jason Kenney’s…
Posted on March 8, 2021
“Tyler Shandro’s approach to reopening remains chaotic for Alberta families and businesses. It is difficult for Albertans to have confidence in his decision to advance the parts of Phase 2 that he…
Posted on March 8, 2021
EDMONTON - The UCP have used their majority on the Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members' Public Bills to stop a private members’ bill that would have protected Albertans’ pensions…
Posted on March 5, 2021
"The significant number of Albertans who have been forced to wait for their surgery or diagnostic imaging is due in part to Jason Kenney’s failure to act as the second wave rose and crashed into our…
Posted on March 5, 2021
"Today, we have learned that more than 200 Albertans may have had their private, personal information compromised when their employer applied on their behalf for the Critical Worker Benefit. This is a…
Posted on March 5, 2021
EDMONTON – Today marks one year since Alberta’s first presumptive case of COVID-19, and there is still no sign of the promised third-party review into the UCP’s handling of the first wave of the…
Posted on March 4, 2021
EDMONTON – UCP Seniors Minister Josephine Pon has failed to act on reports of serious cleanliness issues, including an ongoing mouse infestation, at the Churchill Manor Retirement Residence where there…
Posted on March 4, 2021
CALGARY – Alberta’s NDP is demanding an immediate public inquiry into the mishandling by both the UCP government and Olymel of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in Red Deer, and…
Posted on March 3, 2021
CALGARY – Alberta families will pay more to use their parks this summer as Jason Kenney’s new budget hikes fees by $20 million but hides from Albertans exactly which fees will go up. The UCP already…
Posted on March 2, 2021
CALGARY – Alberta’s NDP and students are calling for sweeping changes to the 2021 post-secondary budget in order to ensure that both the post-secondary system and the students who learn within it…
Posted on March 1, 2021
EDMONTON - The provincial budget presented by Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP last week once again attacked majority-female sectors in Alberta, and provided no plan to get women back to work. “Jason…
Posted on February 26, 2021
CALGARY - Finance Minister Travis Toews abandoned a central promise of Jason Kenney’s 2019 campaign today, and told media that it’s not his job to create jobs to fill vacant towers in the city’s…
Posted on February 26, 2021
CALGARY - Premier Jason Kenney cut $132 million out of the Calgary Cancer Centre in Budget 2021, and pointedly failed to make a single mention of the Green Line. “The UCP have provided no explanation…
Posted on February 24, 2021
“The failure of the online vaccination booking tool is a source of great distress for the thousands of Albertans who were unable to use it to protect themselves or their loved ones, as they were promised.…
Posted on February 24, 2021
EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP are calling for a reversal of the UCP’s cuts ahead of Thursday’s budget and use it as an opportunity to make real investments in healthcare and economic diversification.…
Posted on February 24, 2021
“Today’s announcement of a one-time payment to some parents may help this month, but it will do nothing for the next. Parents need affordable child care every month, not just when the UCP has a budget…
Posted on February 23, 2021
EDMONTON - Alberta NDP Agriculture and Forestry Critic Heather Sweet sent a letter to Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshan ahead of the provincial budget urging him to sign onto the federal…
Posted on February 23, 2021
EDMONTON - Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is calling on Finance Minister Travis Toews to get serious with the challenges facing Alberta, and follow the long standing tradition of providing transparent…