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Posted:MAR 31, 2020

UCP FINANCIAL SUPPORT PROGRAM FALLS SHORT SAYS NDP

EDMONTON - Over thirty thousand Albertans are waiting to get their Emergency Financial Support payments from the UCP government…

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Posted:MAR 30, 2020

KENNEY FAILS TO SCRAP RIDICULOUS WAR ROOM

CALGARY -- Premier Jason Kenney continues to burn Albertans’ tax dollars on his ridiculous energy war room, but has temporarily…

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Posted:MAR 30, 2020

NDP CALLS FOR UCP TO ISSUE MORATORIUM ON CHILDREN AGING OUT OF CARE

EDMONTON - The NDP Official Opposition is calling on the UCP to issue an immediate moratorium on children aging out of care…

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Posted:MAR 30, 2020

OFFICIAL OPPOSITION JOINS PARENTS, STAFF TO CALL FOR UCP TO REVERSE HEARTLESS EDUCATION CUTS

EDMONTON - Parents, educational staff and the NDP Official Opposition are calling on Premier Jason Kenney to immediately…

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Posted:MAR 28, 2020

KENNEY HITS ALBERTA WITH MASSIVE EDUCATION LAYOFFS AMID PANDEMIC

EDMONTON -- Premier Jason Kenney is pushing tens of thousands of Albertans into unemployment amid a deadly pandemic by cutting…

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Posted:MAR 27, 2020

KENNEY FAILS LEADERSHIP TEST, BACKS SHANDRO’S SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOUR

EDMONTON – Premier Jason Kenney legitimized government intimidation on Friday by refusing to fire Health Minister Tyler…

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Posted:MAR 27, 2020

AFTER A WEEK OF DITHERING, KENNEY FINALLY BANS EVICTIONS

EDMONTON -- After more than a week of resisting calls for an eviction ban during the deadly coronavirus pandemic, Premier…

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Posted:MAR 27, 2020

KENNEY MUST REMOVE SHANDRO: STATEMENT BY RACHEL NOTLEY

EDMONTON – Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley issued the following statement following a report by CBC News regarding the…

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Posted:MAR 27, 2020

SENIORS’ HOUSING NEEDS MORE SUPPORT DURING PANDEMIC

EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling for surge funding of 20 per cent over monthly operating costs…

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Posted:MAR 26, 2020

ALBERTA FAMILY DOCTORS “AT IMMINENT RISK OF CLOSING THEIR DOORS”

EDMONTON -- In the midst of a deadly pandemic and a public health emergency, Alberta’s front-line family doctors are still…

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Posted:MAR 26, 2020

ALBERTA CHILD CARE SPACES FACING PERMANENT CLOSURE WITHOUT IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling for immediate government funding for Alberta child care centres at risk of…

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Posted:MAR 25, 2020

EVICTION CRISIS LOOMS CLOSER AS KENNEY FAILS TO ACT

EDMONTON -- Alberta moved another day closer to an eviction crisis as the province sheds thousands of jobs amid a deadly…

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Posted:MAR 24, 2020

UCP MUST BAN EVICTIONS, SAY ALBERTANS AT RISK OF LOSING HOME DURING PANDEMIC

EDMONTON – Albertans need legislated protection from being evicted for inability to pay their rent during the COVID-19…

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Posted:MAR 23, 2020

UCP MUST ENSURE PRIVACY OF ALBERTANS’ HEALTH INFORMATION

EDMONTON – The NDP Official Opposition is calling on Jason Kenney and the UCP to address privacy issues and other concerns…

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Posted:MAR 23, 2020

UCP FAILS TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE, PUTS PUBLIC WORKERS AT RISK

EDMONTON – Jason Kenney and the UCP government are putting thousands of public workers at risk by failing to implement…

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Posted:MAR 17, 2020

UCP ADMITS ATTACKING DOCTORS DURING A PANDEMIC WAS A MISTAKE, BUT FAILS TO RESTORE ENTIRE CONTRACT

EDMONTON -- Health Minister Tyler Shandro today restored parts of the contract with Alberta doctors that he tore up in February.…

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Posted:MAR 17, 2020

NDP OPPOSITION PROVIDES WRITTEN QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE IN EFFORT TO GET REAL ANSWERS FROM UCP GOVERNMENT

EDMONTON -- Today the NDP Official Opposition will provide its Question Period questions to the government in advance and…

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Posted:MAR 16, 2020

PREMIER MISLEADS ALBERTANS, BACKTRACKS ON PAID LEAVE PROMISE

EDMONTON – After promising Albertans the government would provide paid sick days to Albertans impacted by the COVID-19…

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Posted:MAR 16, 2020

UCP HEALTHCARE CHAOS WEAKENS PANDEMIC RESPONSE, SAYS INTENSIVE CARE DOCTOR

EDMONTON - By ramming through changes to physician compensation, Health Minister Tyler Shandro is weakening Alberta’s…

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Posted:MAR 15, 2020

NDP SEEKS EMERGENCY DEBATE ON UCP RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

EDMONTON - Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition will put forward a motion seeking an emergency debate in the Legislature…

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