Posted on November 14, 2019
Alberta’s NDP Caucus is calling on the Auditor General to investigate Premier Jason Kenney and his staff’s travel expenses in a growing scandal regarding the improper use of taxpayers dollars for…
Posted on November 13, 2019
Premier Jason Kenney’s closest adviser has billed Alberta taxpayers for more than $45,000 worth of expenses, including thousands of dollars’ worth of flights, meals and stays in London’s fanciest…
Posted on November 12, 2019
Members of the United Conservative Party are calling for a “voucher system” that will strip public and Catholic schools districts of funding. This policy resolution, listed on page 51 of the upcoming…
Posted on November 7, 2019
Alberta’s NDP Caucus stood with a group of elite firefighters in Edmonton and Calgary calling on the government to reverse cuts to the Wildland Firefighter Rappel Program (RAP). The program started…
Posted on November 7, 2019
Invoices and flight manifests released by the NDP Official Opposition show that Premier Jason Kenney bought tickets on a charter plane for two Conservative Premiers and their spouses, among others, following…
Posted on November 6, 2019
The UCP Government has cut a grant program specifically to protect children from sexual predators, according to a Ministry email provided to the NDP Official Opposition. The Protection for Sexually…
Posted on November 6, 2019
Albertans with disabilities worry they won’t be able to afford rent and other necessities after learning of UCP Government’s cruel cuts to the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program. …
Posted on November 6, 2019
The NDP Official Opposition has learned that the UCP has cut an elite firefighter program as it continues to put public safety at risk to pay for its $4.7-billion corporate handout. The Wildland Firefighter…
Posted on November 5, 2019
Alberta’s NDP Caucus is calling on the UCP government to immediately conduct a review after unsafe levels of lead were found in drinking water across the province. In Edmonton, three out of every 10…
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…
