Category: Politics

  • Ministers on task to implement the objectives of UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights

      In a mandate letter to Cabinet Ministers, Premier Rachel Notley outlines expectations for a renewed and improved relationship with indigenous peoples. The Alberta government will review its existing programs and policies in consultation with indigenous peoples to identify ways to implement the objectives and principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…

  • NDP Approve Borrowing Binge Behind Closed Doors: Fildebrandt

    NDP Approve Borrowing Binge Behind Closed Doors: Fildebrandt

      EDMONTON, AB: The NDP are on a borrowing stampede after rubber stamping $6 billion in new debt behind closed doors, Wildrose Shadow Finance Minister Derek Fildebrandt said today. The announcement was made through an order-in-council approved by cabinet on July 8. It comes after the NDP rammed through a mini-budget with only three hours…

  • Trudeau Presents Plan to Restore Canada’s Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples

    Trudeau Presents Plan to Restore Canada’s Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples

    MONTREAL – Liberals have a plan for real change that will restore the federal government’s relationship with Aboriginal Peoples, said Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau (Tuesday) at the Assembly of First Nations 36th Annual General Assembly. “Canadians recognize the urgent need for a renewed nation-to-nation relationship between the federal government and Indigenous Peoples…

  • Ring Road Announcement Incomplete Without Details on West Leg: Wildrose

    Ring Road Announcement Incomplete Without Details on West Leg: Wildrose

      CALGARY, AB: Today’s ring road announcement failed to provide any details for Calgarians and the people of southern Alberta on when the final leg of the ring road on the west end will be completed, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. This afternoon, the government announced the long expected construction of the southwest portion of…

  • Further Delays and Lack of Information on Calgary Cancer Centre: Wildrose

    Further Delays and Lack of Information on Calgary Cancer Centre: Wildrose

      CALGARY, AB: The NDP announcement on a Calgary Cancer Centre was packaged with few details on the timing and cost of building the facility at the Foothills Medical Centre site, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. A timeline and budget will not be released until the fall, with the government still to determine a…

  • AG Report Shows Action Needed on Mental Health, Reducing Emissions: Wildrose

    AG Report Shows Action Needed on Mental Health, Reducing Emissions: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB (July 6, 2015): Today’s Auditor General report outlines out AHS’ failure on mental health services, and repeated examples of Alberta’s reduction emissions program being ineffective and unaccountable, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. “Today’s report is just another example of AHS failing to meet any of its targets or strategies set out…

  • Health Minister Responds to Auditor General Recommendations on Mental Health

    Sarah Hoffman, Minister of Health, has accepted all recommendations in the Auditor General’s report on mental health and issued this statement in response: “People who suffer from addictions and mental illness experience an incredible amount of pain and hardship. Their friends and family members suffer as well. We need to fully implement and measure the…

  • Wildrose Announces Nomination Date for Calgary-Foothills

    Wildrose Announces Nomination Date for Calgary-Foothills

      CALGARY, AB (July 3, 2015): At the Calgary Stampede Stomp on July 2, Wildrose announced Aug. 15 for its Calgary-Foothills nomination vote in light of a looming byelection. “The people of Calgary-Foothills deserve a new moderate and fiscally responsible voice at the table to hold the NDP accountable,” Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said. “This…

  • Fildebrandt Appointed Chairman of Public Accounts, Fiscal Discipline Top Priority

      CALGARY, AB – After being sworn in as chairman of the Legislature’s Public Accounts Committee, Wildrose Shadow Finance Minister Derek Fildebrandt announced a commitment to scrutinize past spending boondoggles and lead the effort in holding government spending to account. Tasked with analyzing every dollar the government spends, the Public Accounts Committee plays an integral…

  • Annual Report Shows Rough Financial Waters Ahead: Fildebrandt

    Annual Report Shows Rough Financial Waters Ahead: Fildebrandt

      CALGARY, AB (June 30, 2015): Today’s annual report released by the government shows the NDP fully committed to using the same bad accounting practices used by former PC governments and paints a troubling financial picture for Alberta going forward, Wildrose Shadow Finance Minister Derek Fildebrandt said. “Despite the NDP running on a campaign pledge of…

  • Pitt Calls on Premier to Explain Dancey Appointment

      AIRDRIE, AB (June 30, 2015): Today, Wildrose Shadow Minister for the Status of Women Angela Pitt released the following statement on the NDP’s appointment of Brent Dancey as the chief of staff for the new women’s ministry and the Ministry of Environment and Parks. According to reports, Dancey was previously convicted of a brutal assault…

  • Trudeau Presents New Plan for Canada’s Environment and Economy

    Trudeau Presents New Plan for Canada’s Environment and Economy

    VANCOUVER – The Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, today presented an agenda for real change that will create clean jobs, grow the economy, and protect the environment. “During the Harper decade, our environment has suffered. Canadians cannot afford to let this inaction continue – the cost is too high,” said Mr.…

  • Minimum Wage Increase Ignores Job Creation Experts: Wildrose

    Minimum Wage Increase Ignores Job Creation Experts: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB (June 29, 2015): Without listening to Alberta job creators, the NDP are pushing through a dramatic 50 per cent increase to the minimum wage without doing any economic analysis on how it will impact employment, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. “There has been zero economic analysis of the impact of the…

  • Minimum wage going up to $11.20 October 1

    Minimum wage going up to $11.20 October 1

      Alberta will take first step towards a $15 per hour minimum wage by 2018. Alberta’s general minimum wage will increase to $11.20 from $10.20 per hour. The liquor server minimum wage will rise to $10.70 from $9.20 per hour in the first of two steps to eliminate the differential rate altogether in 2016. “Alberta’s…

  • Alberta Seeks Renewed Relationship with First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples of Alberta

    Premier Rachel Notley announced that Alberta is joining the call for a national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The Alberta government also committed to acts of reconciliation and a fundamental shift in its relationship with the Indigenous peoples of the province. As a first step in reconciliation, the government apologized for not taking…