A large majority of Albertans support the idea of the government providing universal access to free birth control, suggests a new poll from a Calgary-based public relations firm. ThinkHQ, an...
An Alberta NDP government would balance the books while using a fixed amount of resource revenues for general revenues to rescue the province from a boom-bust roller-coaster, party Leader Rachel...
You deserve a secure future. All Canadians pay into the Canada Pension Plan, and all Canadians deserve a safe retirement. But if Danielle Smith gets her way, you’ll be robbed of your future. She wants...
Alberta’s United Conservative Party-led government was challenged Monday on why affordability programs like the gas tax holiday, utility rebates and targeted cost of living measures are...
An Alberta NDP government would balance the books while using a fixed amount of resource revenues for general revenues to rescue the province from a boom-bust roller-coaster, party Leader Rachel...
Your Pension is yours. Or at least it used to, until actions taken by the UCP government. Shortly after the 2019 election, the UCP under Premier Kenney introduced Bill 22 with no...
There’s a lot of talk these days about an increased role for private health-care clinics in Canada, sparked in part by Premier Doug Ford’s plans to significantly increase the...
Alberta’s place in the Canada Pension Plan needs to be ratified with legislation to protect it from “rogue political risk,” says NDP Leader Rachel Notley. Notley pledged on Thursday that she would do...
The Edmonton Public School Board says classrooms are bursting at the seams, and a new report backs that up — saying not enough schools are being built to keep up with enrolment. The school division is...
End Danielle Smith’s Chaos, Build A Better Future Danielle Smith’s UCP has failed Alberta’s families. With the election about to begin, we need all hands on deck to beat the UCP and elect an Alberta...
We must build on the past and look towards the future with ambition.Alberta has among the slowest wage growth in Canada. Under the UCP, capital investment stalled. We will reinvigorate Alberta’s...
All Albertans should be able to live in security and dignity. When we were in government, vital benefits were indexed to inflation. In 2019, one of the first things the UCP did was to cut benefits for...
Well, we have a new Commitments section on the website that’s just for this! Anything on this site is something we’re committing to do under our government. This section is new on the site...
UCP stalled wage growth and investment… We must build on the past and look towards the future with ambition.Alberta has among the slowest wage growth in Canada. Under the UCP, capital investment...
Alberta’s NDP will make sure the one million Albertans who need a family doctor, get a family doctor. Today, bad UCP decisions have chased doctors out of Alberta, with no doctors taking new patients...
Universal access to free prescription contraception across the province… The Alberta NDP will provide Albertans with universal access to free prescription contraception across the province...
Calgary’s downtown has long served as a fundamental part of Alberta’s economy. Activity within it has generated tremendous wealth. But today, roughly 30 per cent of downtown office space sits empty...
Self-described social democrat and Nordegg resident Vance Buchwald represents the first time Alberta NDP fields candidate from the within riding MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY – An animal biologist from...
All Canadians pay into the Canada Pension Plan, and all Canadians deserve a safe retirement. But if Danielle Smith gets her way, you’ll be robbed of your future. She wants to scrap your hard-earned...
In February 2022, the town lost its lab services and the X-ray machine broke in February 2020 but was never repaired. The NDP have committed to bringing back X-ray services to Morinville if elected...
Chip in to bring change to Alberta We’re less than three months away from a spring election, and change is in the air. That means one thing: it’s time to clean up Danielle Smith’s chaos. Albertans...
Bill 9 amended the Workers’ Compensation Act to expand presumptive cancer coverage to all firefighters who served during the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire. Alberta’s governing UCP is rejecting calls...
Simply restarting indexing does not undo the harm done to thousands of Albertans pushed deeper into poverty, during the worst inflation we have seen in generations. All Albertans should be able to...
Public schools just beyond the city limits are bursting at the seams with student growth, but no new construction funding in this year’s budget means further space crunches and crowding, officials...
We must build on the past and look towards the future with ambition.Alberta has among the slowest wage growth in Canada. Under the UCP, capital investment stalled. We will reinvigorate Alberta’s...
“Universal access to free prescription contraception in Alberta will ensure that women are more in control of their lives, and more in control of their own economic future,” said Notley...
The question of why provincial funds for Calgary’s downtown were left off the latest budget has been answered by Alberta’s premier. But documents from the city refute her reasoning. “It just so...
Calgary will get “full construction” funding for only one new school and one modernization as part of the UCP government’s Budget 2023 approvals announced Wednesday. Among the 58 new projects touted...
#yyc #calgary #ableg The Alberta Emergency Alert test sounded off at least five times on Wednesday, but I wonder if anyone in the UCP government actually noticed. After all, there’s been a five-alarm...
EDMONTON – Oilpatch support for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s agenda ballooned after she won her party’s leadership and put the so-called RStar program — a plan to give tax...
With an election (presumably) now less than 100 days away and the UCP showing signs of life in recent polls, it’s a particularly odd time to throw a political lifeline to their chief...
The Alberta NDP is taking early aim at the UCP’s upcoming 2023 budget, set to be tabled next week, saying it’s lacking in supports for a struggling health-care system and rampant affordability issues...
In his recent op-ed, UCP Finance Minister Travis Toews explained how his party is incapable of attracting investment or creating good industrial jobs in Alberta. The failures of the UCP are, in his...
With a provincial election right around the corner, our race against Danielle Smith’s UCP is too close for comfort. For Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP to form the next government, it’s critical to...
UCP chaos delayed the project… The people of Red Deer and central Alberta deserve their regional hospital to be a priority. The UCP’s handling of the Red Hospital expansion has been chaotic and...
We’ll make Alberta a better place for all… Every Albertan deserves a caring, and competent government. That is what we’re offering to Albertans. To celebrate the beginning of Black History...
All Albertans should be able to live in security and dignity. When we were in government, vital benefits were indexed to inflation. In 2019, one of the first things the UCP did was to cut benefits for...
We must build on the past and look towards the future with ambition.Alberta has among the slowest wage growth in Canada. Under the UCP, capital investment stalled. We will reinvigorate Alberta’s...
Alberta’s NDP will make sure the one million Albertans who need a family doctor, get a family doctor. Today, bad UCP decisions have chased doctors out of Alberta, with no doctors taking new patients...
The NDP announced a plan Wednesday to connect one million Albertans with a family doctor – part of the party’s “commitment to rebuild and strengthen family health care in Alberta.” The plan is “a...