Posted on January 29, 2020
Without any warning or consultation, UCP Community and Social Services Minister Rajan Sawhney has altered the benefit payment schedule for more than 67,000 Albertans receiving AISH and 60,000 Albertans…
Posted on January 23, 2020
Alberta’s municipalities will lose more than $1 billion over the next four years, through a combination of UCP cuts, downloading of costs, and indifference to unpaid industrial property taxes. “To…
Posted on January 23, 2020
Briefing materials created by Treasury Board and Finance officials during last spring’s provincial election campaign show that Premier Jason Kenney went ahead with his $4.7-billion corporate handout…
Posted on January 22, 2020
The UCP’s legacy of corruption continues with the news that the RCMP has launched a fraud investigation into the 2017 leadership race that elected Jason Kenney Leader of the UCP. “This is more evidence…
Posted on January 21, 2020
Premier Jason Kenney’s $4.7-billion corporate handout has not produced the jobs or investment he promised, causing many private sector economists to downgrade their economic growth forecasts for 2020.…
Posted on January 21, 2020
Premier Jason Kenney’s $4.7-billion corporate handout has not produced the jobs or investment he promised, causing many private sector economists to downgrade their economic growth forecasts for 2020.…
Posted on January 20, 2020
Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP are attempting to distract from their dismal record on post-secondary education by changing the funding formula in a way that binds universities and colleges in red tape…
Posted on January 15, 2020
Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP government are forcing Alberta parents to leave the workforce due to their lack of support for affordable childcare. In a letter sent on Jan. 10, the Westlock Child…
Posted on January 15, 2020
Albertans living with chronic illness are devastated that Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP government are rushing the process to force Alberta patients to switch from biologic1 to biosimilar medications…
Posted on January 10, 2020
Albertans’ car insurance rates skyrocketed by as much as 30 per cent in the last months of 2019, after Premier Jason Kenney removed the five per cent rate cap implemented by the former NDP government,…
Posted on January 10, 2020
Since Premier Kenney and his UCP government enacted their $4.7 billion corporate handout, 50,000 full-time jobs have been lost. This increase comes after another bad month for jobs in December, as 24,000…
Posted on January 6, 2020
Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling on Premier Jason Kenney to scrap his $30-million-per-year “War Room” after a series of credibility-destroying fiascos and failures. “The so-called…
Posted on December 31, 2019
“The environment and the economy can, and must, go hand in hand. By pitting the economy and the environment against each other, Premier Kenney and the UCP are failing at both. “Jason Kenney and…
Posted on December 18, 2019
Post secondary students at Edmonton’s MacEwan University joined with Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition to demand the Jason Kenney and the UCP Government reverse their ruthless cuts. The call Wednesday…
Posted on December 17, 2019
A 24 per cent cut to the Rental Assistance Program is one of many cruel UCP initiatives set to take effect in the new year and make an already difficult situation even worse for Alberta families, say…
Posted on December 11, 2019
Funding cuts imposed by Premier Jason Kenney will mean the end of support programs that have helped indigenous students, parents and families for decades. Ben Calf Robe Society in Edmonton was informed…
Posted on December 10, 2019
November job numbers released last week show that youth and young adult unemployment is on the rise in Alberta, despite promises from Premier Kenney and the UCP to create jobs by cutting the minimum wage…
Posted on December 10, 2019
Albertans are demanding the UCP Government reverse their cruel decision to kick tens of thousands of people off the Seniors Drug Benefit Program in order to pay for a $4.7-billion corporate giveaway.…
Posted on December 6, 2019
The UCP government's $4.7 billion corporate handout has still not created a single job to date as over 18,000 Alberta jobs were lost in November. “It’s incredibly unfortunate to see so many Albertans…
Posted on November 29, 2019
The UCP has cut up to 5,150 public health-care jobs and counting in a single day. “This Premier has broken his election promise to protect public health care.” A further 2,500 employees within the…
Posted on November 28, 2019
Jason Kenney and the UCP are repealing the right for farm workers to earn at least minimum wage, leaving a loophole that could lead to worker exploitation, said NDP Leader Rachel Notley. Bill 26, introduced…
Posted on November 27, 2019
Premier Kenney and his UCP government have abandoned diversification efforts forfeiting 17,900 jobs and $19.1 billion in investment. “The UCP’s $4.7 billion corporate handout still hasn’t created…
Posted on November 22, 2019
UCP MLAs who voted to terminate the Election Commissioner during an ongoing investigation into fraud and illegal donations tied to the governing party could be found in contravention of ethics laws, according…
Posted on November 22, 2019
UCP MLAs who voted to terminate the Election Commissioner during an ongoing investigation into fraud and illegal donations tied to the governing party could be found in contravention of ethics laws, according…
Posted on November 14, 2019
In two media articles, UCP MLAs Angela Pitt and Peter Guthrie both admit that instead of maintaining funding for education, the UCP government is actually making cuts. In a November 13 interview with…
