Provincial Politics

Alberta introduces bill affecting pay rules for doctors, public-sector workers

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing new legislation that could affect where doctors work and how much they get paid as well as allow the government more freedom to bring in replacement workers for union j...

Oct 29, 2019 Doctor's office

Province introduces new climate change plan focused on large emitters

EDMONTON -- The provincial government has unveiled it's new plan to address climate change in Alberta.Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment and Parks, has tabled Bill 19, which would create the Technol...

Oct 29, 2019 Minister Jason Nixon announces Alberta’s TIER regulation and proposed legislation alongside industry supporters. - Government of Alberta photo

Government to ask public sector workers to take wage cut

EDMONTON -- The province is asking public sector workers to accept a pay cut when wage arbitration talks resume later this week.In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Finance Minister Travis Toews...

Oct 29, 2019 Finance Minister Travis Toews in the Legislature -- Govt of Alberta

Alberta asking arbitrators to cut public service pay by two per cent

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is seeking wage rollbacks as binding arbitration gets set to resume with more than 180,000 public sector workers. Finance Minister Travis Toews says the government wi...

Oct 29, 2019

Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation

EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...

Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

UCP budget full of broken promises, says MLA Phillips

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge West MLA and Provincial NDP Finance Critic Shannon Phillips says the budget Jason Kenney and his government delivered Thursday, will be "devastating" to just about everyone...

Oct 27, 2019 Lethbridge West MLA Shannon Phillips

UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...

Oct 24, 2019

Alberta education minister releases new guidelines for school seclusion rooms

EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says seclusion rooms in schools will not be banned, but only used as a last resort when a student poses significant and imminent danger to themselves or others....

Oct 23, 2019

Finance minister forgoes new shoes and selects cowboy boots to present Alberta's next budget

EDMONTON -- It's a decades old tradition for finance ministers to purchase a new pair of shoes to present a new budget. Spending money on new footwear tends to offer a foretaste of what is to come in ...

Oct 23, 2019 Alberta Legislature -- LNN

Alberta finance minister says first budget to attack spending, not services

EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the first budget of the new United Conservative government will surgically attack spending but not at the expense of essential services. Toews say...

Oct 23, 2019