Category: Politics

  • ASBA President’s statement: Budget 2015/16 cuts funding for students, classrooms and schools

    ASBA President’s statement: Budget 2015/16 cuts funding for students, classrooms and schools

    Alberta School Boards Association President Helen Clease issued this statement.  Concerns are growing across this province about the budget and the impact on our students. This is not a good news budget for education in Alberta. After years of belt tightening this budget is being called “one of the worst”. As boards review and dig deeper…

  • Foothills School Division Responds to Budget Constraints

    Foothills School Division Responds to Budget Constraints

    Dear Minister Dirks: Re: Budget Constraints, 2015/16 Foothills School Division appreciates the tremendous efforts that Alberta Education and the Province puts forth on behalf of the students of Alberta. We also understand the enormous constraints that are facing all Albertans as we grapple with the considerable gap between projected revenues and departmental expenditures. While we…

  • Election 2105: Marking Earth Day, Alberta Greens call for adoption of Environmental Bill of Rights

    Election 2105: Marking Earth Day, Alberta Greens call for adoption of Environmental Bill of Rights

    By Janet Keeping On Earth Day 2015, Green Party of Alberta Leader, Janet Keeping, calls for adoption of an Environmental Bill of Rights for Alberta.  According to Keeping, “An Environmental Bill of Rights for Albertans is long, long overdue.  Alberta’s ecosystems and wildlife habitat have been nickle-and-dimed nearly to death. It’s time Albertans had stronger…

  • Stephen Harper’s budget helps those who need it least

    Stephen Harper’s budget helps those who need it least

    OTTAWA – Stephen Harper’s tenth budget gives the most to Canadians who need it the least. It is time for a better plan that invests in jobs and growth for the middle class and those working hard to join it, said Liberals today. “Canadian families deserve a real and fair chance at success, but Mr.…

  • REALITY CHECK: Prentice ABC Promise Heavy on Rhetoric, Light on Details

    REALITY CHECK: Prentice ABC Promise Heavy on Rhetoric, Light on Details

      EDMONTON, AB – Last week, after facing steep criticism for protecting ABCs from salary disclosure rules and increasing spending while raising the largest tax increase in Alberta’s history, Jim Prentice stumbled out another dithering policy prescription to reduce ABCs by 25 per cent. Now, he needs to be straightforward with Albertans, and say which…

  • REALITY CHECK: NDP Welcomes PC Change of Heart

    REALITY CHECK: NDP Welcomes PC Change of Heart

    It seems one PC candidate finally started to listen to Albertans on the issue of corporate tax giveaways. While Jim Prentice is working overtime to protect the PCs’ corporate tax breaks, his candidate and former Deputy Premier, Thomas Lukaszuk, says that after the election he would look at increasing corporate taxes. Lukaszuk’s position was reported…

  • What Foothills Residents Need to Know to Vote in the Alberta Election

    What Foothills Residents Need to Know to Vote in the Alberta Election

      You are eligible to vote in the Provincial General Election if you live within the electoral division and you: are 18 years of age or older on Voting Day, are a Canadian citizen, and have been ordinarily resident in Alberta for the six months immediately preceding Voting Day. Livingstone-Macleod Riding Livingstone-Macleod Candidates: Alida Hess…

  • Evan Berger: Progressive Conservative Candidate for Livingstone-Macleod

    Evan Berger: Progressive Conservative Candidate for Livingstone-Macleod

    Why I am Running To be an effective MLA requires a strong support network, the ability, the desire, and 110% commitment to serve the people and the communities of the constituency and the province. I have that network, ability, desire and commitment. I have been encouraged by the many conversations, calls, notes and messages of…

  • Statement by David Swann: School Boards Confirm that PC’s Have Failed On Education

    Statement by David Swann: School Boards Confirm that PC’s Have Failed On Education

    EDMONTON, AB – Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann released the following statement in response to today’s joint statement by Alberta’s School Boards: “Today, Alberta’s school boards took the courageous step of speaking out about the damage that has been done to our schools by this PC government. “For five consecutive years the PCs have tried…

  • Minister Oliver Tables Balanced-Budget, Low-Tax Plan for Jobs, Growth and Security

    Minister Oliver Tables Balanced-Budget, Low-Tax Plan for Jobs, Growth and Security

    Economic Action Plan 2015 supports jobs and growth, helps families and communities prosper, and ensures the security of Canadians April 21, 2015 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Finance Minister of Finance Joe Oliver today tabled Economic Action Plan 2015, the Harper Government’s balanced-budget, low-tax plan for jobs, growth and security. Economic Action Plan 2015…

  • Alberta Party Candidate says Wildrose Not “Standing up for Albertans”

    Alberta Party Candidate says Wildrose Not “Standing up for Albertans”

    Windsor wants community supported, calls out Wildrose press conference for making High River unmarketable. HIGH RIVER, AB – Alberta Party candidate Joel Windsor is calling out Wildrose Leader Brian Jean and his local candidate Wayne Anderson for casting High River in a bad light. On Friday, April 17 Jean and Anderson used Wallaceville, the neighbourhood…

  • Standing Up For Families: Free Two-Hour Parking at Alberta Hospitals

    Standing Up For Families: Free Two-Hour Parking at Alberta Hospitals

    EDMONTON, AB – Today, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said a Wildrose government would make it mandatory for all hospitals to offer two free hours of parking for visitors, easing the burden Albertans face when they visit loved ones in hospital. Alberta Health Services (AHS) currently generates over $70 million in revenue from hospital visit parking fees, making…

  • Protect Alberta communities and businesses by building flood mitigation

    Protect Alberta communities and businesses by building flood mitigation

    By Meagan Wade Too much to risk With another flood season fast approaching, the PCs’ dithering has left Alberta’s river communities and downtown Calgary unprotected from flooding. Until adequate flood mitigation is in place, lives, homes and thousands of jobs remain remain at risk. Another flood could devastate our river communities and jeopardize Calgary’s role…

  • REALITY CHECK: PCs no better than WRP on health care

    REALITY CHECK: PCs no better than WRP on health care

    The PCs say the Wildrose want to open the door to two-tiered health care. The truth is the PCs already opened that door, and refuse to close it. The PCs allowed privatized health care at the Copeman Healthcare Clinic (opened in 2012) and refuse to shut it down despite “serious concerns” raised by Health officials.…

  • Reality Check: Even PC Candidates Shocked at Prentice’s Tax on Charities

    Reality Check: Even PC Candidates Shocked at Prentice’s Tax on Charities

      EDMONTON, AB (April 19, 2015): Even PC candidates are firing back at Jim Prentice’s cruel tax on charities. Medicine Hat candidate Blake Pedersen said recently he’s, “shocked at the government’s decision to do away with the tax break for those making charitable donations.” Maybe Pedersen should come clean with voters which party’s platform he…