Tag: Central Alberta

  • Organ Donation Works

    Organ Donation Works

      National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: April 18 to April 25 Story by Devon Jolie Organ donation saved Kristy Thackeray’s life when she was just 13. Years later, it would save her daughter’s life, too. Diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart turns fatty and fibrous, making it hard to…

  • NDP Reveals Skyrocketing Ambulance Alerts as PC Hospital Crisis Spreads

    NDP Reveals Skyrocketing Ambulance Alerts as PC Hospital Crisis Spreads

    EDMONTON – Today, NDP Leader Rachel Notley revealed a staggering rise in ambulance red alerts in Edmonton and Calgary as the PC hospital crisis spreads to our ambulance services. “Families depend on our hospitals and first responders to provide the care they need,” said Notley. “When a loved one’s life is in danger, no one…

  • RCMP Edmonton for BC RCMP – Missing Person – Travis Moore

    RCMP Edmonton for BC RCMP – Missing Person – Travis Moore

      Dawson Creek RCMP are seeking public assistance to locate a missing person. Travis MOORE was last seen on April 3rd 2015 as he travelled from Dawson Creek BC to Caroline Alberta. Travis is travelling in a 2009 white GMC pickup truck bearing Alberta licence plate 86J190. Police are asking the public to call if they should happen…

  • Prentice PCs Unload Almost $60M in Severances Over Three Years

    Prentice PCs Unload Almost $60M in Severances Over Three Years

      EDMONTON, AB  – While Jim Prentice will bring in the largest tax hike in Alberta history, the Prentice PCs have unloaded almost $60 million in severances over the past three years, the Wildrose announced today. In the three years from 2011 to 2014, the PCs rolled out $31 million in severance payments across government…

  • Rachel Notley’s NDP to improve access to long-term care by opening new beds

    Rachel Notley’s NDP to improve access to long-term care by opening new beds

    EDMONTON – Today, NDP Leader Rachel Notley announced the NDP’s plan to improve patients’ access to long-term care. “The PCs are forcing hundreds of patients to spend months waiting for long-term care,” said Notley. “After years of PC neglect, New Democrats will put families first and improve access to long-term care by opening the new…

  • Letter To The Editor From The Hon. Jim Prentice

    Letter To The Editor From The Hon. Jim Prentice

    To the editor: As Albertans, we care deeply about our natural world and we feel a connection to the land and our environment. I’ve never met a farmer or a rancher who isn’t a conservationist. Yet, we are also an oil and gas producing province. Landowners sometimes face situations where their rights come into conflict…

  • Build Schools, Protect our Teachers and Reduce Class Sizes

    Build Schools, Protect our Teachers and Reduce Class Sizes

    The PCs made your kids’ education too dependent on the price of oil Now they want to raise your taxes while they cut your kids’ education. Their new budget provides no funding for the 12,000-19,000 new students that are expected to enroll in public education. In fact, it does not provide funding for any of…

  • Pro Playoff Hockey Back in Alberta, ATB Place Lights Up!

    Pro Playoff Hockey Back in Alberta, ATB Place Lights Up!

    Calgary (and Edmonton) — For the first time in six years, there is pro playoff hockey in Alberta, and ATB Financial is helping tell the storey on the Edmonton skyline. Yes, the Edmonton skyline. “Congratulations to Calgary, to their captain, Mark Giordano and to the players and management and fans in Calgary,” says Dave Mowat, ATB Financial…

  • Reality Check: Wildrose the Only Party that Will Protect Property Rights

    Reality Check: Wildrose the Only Party that Will Protect Property Rights

      EDMONTON, AB – Promising more reviews and reports is not real action on property rights. The Prentice PCs had the past six months to review Bill 36.  To date? Nothing. In fact, Prentice missed two Legislative sessions to introduce new legislation. The Prentice PCs had the power to immediately address the Lemke decision weeks…

  • Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

    Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

      If the budget put forward by Jim Prentice and the PC party becomes law, Alberta will be the first province in Canada to put a heavier tax burden on charitable giving. Budget 2015 slashes the tax credit for Albertans who give to charity by 39 per cent, from 21 per cent to 12.75 per…

  • Alberta Liberals: Solutions to Protect and Support Our Most Vulnerable

    Alberta Liberals: Solutions to Protect and Support Our Most Vulnerable

    CALGARY, AB – (Friday) Liberal Leader David Swann announced Alberta Liberals will propose two initiatives to provide solutions for our most vulnerable citizens: increase funding to Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) and reinstate Premier Ed Stelmach’s Charitable Donation Tax Credit (CDTC). “Every person deserves a roof over their head,” said Swann. “When government, community…

  • Red Deer RCMP Warn of Job Scam

      Red Deer RCMP recently encountered a new take on the cheque cashing scam, when three male suspects approached two men who were at a downtown employment agency looking for work. The suspects invited the men to get in their vehicle, saying they were taking them to be interviewed. The men were taken to a…

  • Wildrose Calls in Auditor General to Investigate if PCs Hiding Gov’t Contracts

    Wildrose Calls in Auditor General to Investigate if PCs Hiding Gov’t Contracts

    EDMONTON, AB – The Wildrose is calling on the Auditor General to investigate whether the legally required  government disclosure of contracts (the Blue Book) is accurate. Multiple freedom of information requests confirm Enzo Development Inc. was hired for a $21 million sole-source contract during the 2013 floods to deliver modular classrooms to High River and…

  • Alberta Liberals on the Campaign Trail

    Alberta Liberals on the Campaign Trail

  • Prentice Plan Will Continue Building Critical Infrastructure and Protecting Jobs

    Prentice Plan Will Continue Building Critical Infrastructure and Protecting Jobs

    CALGARY – Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice outlined how the party’s infrastructure plan will protect Alberta jobs, and invest in the services and infrastructure that matter most to Albertans. “In a rapidly growing province, Albertans rightly expect their government to have a realistic plan to invest in schools, health care facilities and roads we use…