Tag: Central Alberta

  • Dr. David Swann Proposes 5 Point Plan to Fix Healthcare

    Dr. David Swann Proposes 5 Point Plan to Fix Healthcare

    EDMONTON, AB – (This week) Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann announced a five-point plan to fix health care. The Liberal plan is specifically designed to fix the health care system’s most pressing problems: EXPAND HOME CARE AND LONG-TERM CARE Problem: Without access to home care and long-term care, many seniors turn to hospital emergency rooms…

  • Alberta PCs ~ Protecting Jobs: Oil & Gas Industry

    Alberta PCs ~ Protecting Jobs: Oil & Gas Industry

    Fort McMurray-Conklin PC Candidate, Don Scott outlines how the Prentice Plan will protect Alberta jobs in the oil and gas industry. By Don Scott, PC Candidate Fort McMurray-Conklin As a longtime Fort McMurray resident, I know firsthand how important the oil and gas sector is to Alberta’s communities, families and economy. Managing my own law…

  • The Alberta Party: Make government more effective and efficient by reducing the number of MLAs by 30%

    The Alberta Party: Make government more effective and efficient by reducing the number of MLAs by 30%

    By Greg Clark The Alberta Legislature is the most ineffective legislature in Canada Most of the government of Alberta’s business is done behind closed doors in cabinet or in the PC caucus room, far from public scrutiny. The Alberta Legislature also works far less than other Canadian legislatures – only PEI and Nunavut sat for fewer days…

  • Alberta Veterinary Medical Association Pet Importation Warning: Canine Influenza (H3N2)

    Alberta Veterinary Medical Association Pet Importation Warning: Canine Influenza (H3N2)

      A strain of canine influenza has recently been spreading in parts of the United States including Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and New York State. To control the spread of this infection and keep our animals safe, we request that you do not import animals from these areas until the infection has subsided. While H3N2 is…

  • School Councils Conference: Parents Engage with Peers and Partners in Education

    School Councils Conference: Parents Engage with Peers and Partners in Education

      Promoting engagement in public education, the Alberta School Councils’ Association (ASCA) is hosting its annual conference event and business meeting this weekend in Edmonton. Working with Alberta Education to strengthen parent participation in education, ASCA provides a unified voice for parents as the provincial organization representing school councils in Alberta. The School Councils Conference…

  • Jean Presents Clear Vision for Low Taxes and Balanced Budgets in Leaders’ Debate

      EDMONTON, AB – Wildrose Leader Brian Jean presented Alberta voters with a clear alternative for low taxes and balanced budgets against what he called the “Coalition for Higher Taxes” during (last night)’s leader’s debate. Jean contrasted the PC, NDP and Liberal plans for overspending and higher taxes on Alberta families and small businesses with…

  • Notley takes Jim Prentice head on in Leader’s Debate

    Notley takes Jim Prentice head on in Leader’s Debate

    EDMONTON – The NDP’s Rachel Notley emerged (last night) as the clear winner of the Alberta Leadership Debate. The hour-and-a-half long debate saw Notley outline her vision of a province where health care and education are protected by asking corporations to pay their fair share. “It was obvious from the debate that Jim Prentice does…

  • Camrose and District Victim Services Photo Essay: Lucy the Dog

    Camrose and District Victim Services Photo Essay: Lucy the Dog

      In 2013, we introduced you to Caber, Canada’s first “Trauma K9,” in a National Victims of Crime Awareness Week (Victims Week) Sharing Our Stories video. Since that time, the use of victim service dogs has increased significantly across the country. Camrose and District Victim Services, one of only two amalgamated Victim Service units in…

  • Global TV Livestream and Live Blog of the Alberta Election Leaders Debate Tonight

    Global TV Livestream and Live Blog of the Alberta Election Leaders Debate Tonight

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  • Statement on Wildrose Financial Plan

      CALGARY, AB – In response to the PCs continued attempts to justify their desperate and outlandish claims about the Wildrose Low-Tax Balanced Budget and Savings Plan, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean made the following statement: “Wildrose has been putting together alternative budgets with a transparent cash balance for years.  As in the 2012 election, our…

  • 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…

  • ACT Alberta Challenges Myths of Human Trafficking

    ACT Alberta Challenges Myths of Human Trafficking

    Last week, a Red Deer man and woman were charged with human trafficking following a lengthy investigation into the alleged abuse of eight temporary foreign workers at the Econo Lodge in Red Deer’s Gasoline Alley. Human trafficking – the act of forcing, coercing, or deceiving an individual into providing sex or labour for the personal…

  • 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…

  • 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…