Tag: Central Alberta

  • Significant investment in Alberta roads and bridges will create jobs, improve traffic flow and build a more resilient economy

    Significant investment in Alberta roads and bridges will create jobs, improve traffic flow and build a more resilient economy

    Major improvements to one of Alberta’s busiest travel corridors are part of more than $7 billion in investment in roads and bridges over five years under the Alberta Jobs Plan.   The $100 million investment in the Queen Elizabeth II Highway interchange with Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer will improve traffic flow and safety for…

  • Making Things Worse: NDP Carbon Tax Will Hurt Charities

    EDMONTON, AB: Premier Rachel Notley must come clean with Albertans about the full cost of the NDP carbon tax on charities and non-profits after Budget 2016 listed zero exemptions or rebates for Alberta’s charitable sector, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. The carbon tax will come with a price tag of at least $1,000 for the…

  • Government Increases Funding to Fight Organized and Serious Crime

    Government Increases Funding to Fight Organized and Serious Crime

      Budget 2016 includes a $2.6 million increase for Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) to continue fighting crime across Alberta. The increase means ALERT will be able to maintain all its policing positions. ALERT will receive a total of $29.1 million in provincial funding. “This government knows the valuable work ALERT does to help…

  • A birthday gift for The Queen – Banff Commonwealth Walkway to celebrate Alberta and Canada’s Royal heritage

    A birthday gift for The Queen – Banff Commonwealth Walkway to celebrate Alberta and Canada’s Royal heritage

    Alberta has a special gift to mark the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and to celebrate Canada’s longstanding role as a member of the Commonwealth. “I am delighted to announce that a Commonwealth Walkway will be created in the Town of Banff and Banff National Park,” said Her Honour, the Honourable Lois…

  • NDP Misleading Albertans on Full Cost of Carbon Tax: Wildrose

    NDP Misleading Albertans on Full Cost of Carbon Tax: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB: The NDP government is being dishonest with families and businesses about the full cost of the new carbon tax that will hit families with at least $1,000 in extra costs when fully implemented, the Wildrose Official Opposition said (Monday). The NDP rebate program is only designed to cover average increases on natural gas and…

  • Amber Ruddy: Alberta’s Small Business Tax Cut First Step on a Long To-Do List

    Amber Ruddy: Alberta’s Small Business Tax Cut First Step on a Long To-Do List

      For years Alberta’s governments have rested on their laurels and the province’s reputation as the best place in Canada to own and operate a business. Taking this status for granted left policy-makers complacent and the Alberta Advantage slowly languished. The tabling of the 2016-17 provincial budget, the Alberta Jobs Plan, placed a refreshing and renewed focus…

  • Wildrose Releases Statement on W-18

    Wildrose Releases Statement on W-18

    EDMONTON, AB (April 20, 2016): Wildrose Shadow Justice Minister Scott Cyr today released the following statement on the rise of W-18, a potentially lethal synthetic opioid in Alberta: “I am extremely concerned by the reported appearance of W-18 in Alberta communities. This very dangerous compound has the potential to kill many Albertans and take our opioid…

  • Statement from Minister McLean on the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Alberta

    Statement from Minister McLean on the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Alberta

    Status of Women Minister Stephanie McLean issued this statement, yesterday, on the centenary of women’s right to vote in Alberta.  “One hundred years ago today, women gained the hard-fought right to vote in Alberta. “It was an important victory for social justice, but an incomplete one. The fight for equality continued as women of different…

  • New Investor Tax Credit Supports Jobs and Economic Diversification

    New Investor Tax Credit Supports Jobs and Economic Diversification

    The new Alberta Investor Tax Credit (AITC) will encourage investment in small and medium sized businesses in non-traditional sectors, diversifying Alberta’s economy and creating new jobs. The AITC will offer a 30 per cent tax credit to investors who provide capital to Alberta companies in the information technology, clean technology, health technology, interactive digital media…

  • Alberta Business Owners Still Worrying About Labour: ATB poll

    Alberta Business Owners Still Worrying About Labour: ATB poll

      Calgary – Just as it was one year ago, Alberta small and mid-sized enterprise owners and operators (SMEs) are worried about labour and workforce issues. But the reasons they worry about employee-related issues has changed. That’s the key finding from the latest edition of the ATB Business Beat survey. In each survey, ATB asks SMEs…

  • MLA Pitt Marks 100 Year Anniversary of Suffrage

    EDMONTON, AB (April 18, 2016): Today, Wildrose Shadow Status of Women Minister Angela Pitt released the following statement to mark the 100 year anniversary of Alberta women gaining the right to vote: “It is an honour as a woman and a legislator to mark this significant milestone in the suffrage movement. The past 100 years has shown us just how…

  • Cooper on NDP Trying to Shut Out Parental Choice and Playing Games with Opposition Motion

    Cooper on NDP Trying to Shut Out Parental Choice and Playing Games with Opposition Motion

    EDMONTON, AB: “I am incredibly disappointed by the NDP government pushing amendments on a motion to protect parental choice. “Instead of affirming the long standing position by the Alberta government to protect choice, they played politics with a simply worded motion. “The fact is, charter, independent and home education options play a critical role in…

  • Register to be an Organ and Tissue Donor

    Register to be an Organ and Tissue Donor

    Join the 230,000 Albertans already registered as organ and tissue donors during National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. April 17 – 23 is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week in Canada. With more than 600 Albertans waiting for an organ transplant, and many more waiting for tissues, increasing the number of Albertans registered…

  • New Area Code 825 in Alberta

    New Area Code 825 in Alberta

    With the continuing popularity for telecommunication services, the demand for new phone numbers will soon exceed the supply in Alberta.  Currently covered by area codes 403, 587, and 780, the solution was to add a fourth area code on April 9, 2016.  The new 825 area code will co-exist within the same geographic region as area…

  • Government Introduces Amendments to Simplify and Streamline How Minor Offences are Enforced

    Government Introduces Amendments to Simplify and Streamline How Minor Offences are Enforced

    Bill 9 proposes two sets of amendments that would make the enforcement of provincial laws and municipal bylaws more effective, efficient and proportionate. One set of amendments in an Act to Modernize Enforcement of Provincial Offences would, if passed, end the practice of issuing warrants for unpaid fines for minor infractions such as not shoveling…