Posted on November 4, 2019
Both the Minister of Finance and Minister of Education continue to lie to Albertans about their cuts to education funding, even as documents produced by school boards show they’re receiving hundreds…
Posted on November 4, 2019
The NDP Official Opposition, former children in care, advocates and members of the all-party endorsed Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention called on Jason Kenney and the UCP Government to immediately…
Posted on October 24, 2019
Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP Government’s bait-and-switch budget is going to hurt Albertans. The UCP’s budget is a plan to make every day Albertans pay for their $4.5 billion no-jobs handout to…
Posted on October 21, 2019
The families of Albertans who were killed or seriously injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy joined Alberta’s NDP Caucus at the Alberta Legislature last week demanding the UCP Government reverse…
Posted on October 21, 2019
The UCP government has voted against increasing access to abortion and reproductive health services in Alberta, forcing many women to continue to travel hundreds of kilometers to access critical services…
Posted on October 21, 2019
A bill to protect against American-style health care will not be heard in the Legislature after members of the UCP government voted against debating MLA Richard Feehan’s Private Member’s Bill. “Premier…
Posted on October 18, 2019
Doug O’Halloran was a great Albertan, and his passing is a tremendous loss to our province. Doug believed in the dignity and worth of working people, and their inherent right to speak up for themselves.…
Posted on October 17, 2019
Updated drilling rig counts show Premier Jason Kenney and his UCP government’s $4.5 billion corporate tax giveaway has done nothing to help the province’s oil and gas industry. Since the Kenney and…
Posted on September 3, 2019
Premier Jason Kenney lied to Albertans. He promised his $4.5-billion tax giveaway to wealthy corporations wouldn’t cost Albertans anything. But today’s Blue Ribbon Panel Report recommends massive…
Posted on June 25, 2019
EDMONTON - Infrastructure Minister Prasad Panda must come clean with the people about what exactly he knows regarding voter fraud in the 2015 UCP leadership contest. CBC news reported on Tuesday that…
Posted on June 24, 2019
The Minister of Education is lying when she says there will be no impacts to classrooms at the Calgary Board of Education this fall, says the Alberta NDP Opposition. Joined by the President of the Alberta…
Posted on June 17, 2019
EDMONTON – The UCP Government has been caught lying again, with claims its Bad Faith Bargaining Bill 9 intends only to delay contractually mandated negotiations on public sector contracts, charges the…
Posted on June 4, 2019
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney has described the staff he’s assembled in his office as being “the right mix,” but he needs to answer questions on just how the hateful views endorsed by one of his…
Posted on June 4, 2019
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP must stop with the budget chaos and fill vacant positions in Calgary emergency services to ensure ambulances are on the street, said the Alberta NDP Opposition. The…
Posted on May 29, 2019
EDMONTON – The UCP needs to stop forcing parents to choose how to cut their own kids’ education and start properly funding schools, said Alberta NDP Opposition Education Critic Sarah Hoffman. Recently…
Posted on May 28, 2019
EDMONTON – One day after picking the pockets of Alberta workers by cutting banked overtime and youth wages, Jason Kenney and the UCP are now paying their bosses with the largest corporate tax cut in…
Posted on May 28, 2019
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney’s campaign promise to balance the provincial budget by 2022 appears to be in shambles. During Question Period Monday, Minister of Finance Travis Toews would only say that his…
Posted on May 27, 2019
EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP are picking workers’ pockets by introducing legislation that cuts banked overtime, slashes holiday pay and rolls back youth wages, said Alberta NDP Opposition Leader…
Posted on May 24, 2019
“When the B.C. government threatened to block our oil, we used the wine ban to force them to court. Then we worked hard to talk directly to British Columbians about the importance of Canada’s energy…
Posted on May 15, 2019
CALGARY - To end UCP waffling over Calgary flood mitigation, NDP Calgary MLA Kathleen Ganley will table a motion to support the Springbank Dam project in the Legislative Assembly. Miranda Rosin, the UCP…
Posted on May 5, 2019
EDMONTON - With the Wilberforce Project bragging to media that they have “the ear of government”[1] what does this mean for the right to access abortion? Cameron Wilson the Political Director of the…
Posted on May 2, 2019
EDMONTON - Alberta's Official Opposition Leader Rachel Notley has written to both the Deputy Attorney General and the Ethics Commissioner asking for both a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation…
Posted on February 20, 2019
EDMONTON – UCP Leader Jason Kenney won’t commit to finishing the new hospital for Southwest Edmonton if elected. When asked about the project today, Kenney said “we have to look at what are the…
Posted on January 28, 2019
For immediate releaseJanuary 28, 2019 CALGARY – Approximately 15,000 new Alberta students are expected to attend Alberta schools this fall but under Jason Kenney’s plan, those students won’t be…
Posted on January 17, 2019
EDMONTON- Jason Kenney has been caught advocating for tolls on roads and bridges. Albertans deserve to know how much Kenney’s tolls will cost them. In September, Kenney lauded India for implementing…
