Tag: Election 2012

But 21 MLAs still paid $1,000 a month Alberta opposition members are calling on the Redford government to kill an all-party committee that never meets to spare the province the […]

Some funds are voluntarily being returned Alberta’s opposition parties say they aren’t under investigation in a controversy over illegal donations that has put the governing Progressive Conservatives under the scrutiny […]

MLAs scramble to explain phantom committee’s stipend Imagine you were getting paid $1,000 a month to do work above and beyond your regular job. Now imagine you haven’t actually done […]

Ramp-up planned for September 2013 Alberta parents shouldn’t expect to see the full-day kindergarten promised by Premier Alison Redford this fall, but the province’s education minister says as much as […]

Horne says province trying to mend relationships with MDs CALGARY — Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne said he’s not aware of political intimidation in the province’s medical system — and […]

Wildrose party cries political electioneering The Redford government is under attack from opposition members over spending more than $1.3 million of taxpayers’ money on advertising campaigns – including $425,000 promoting […]

The government has it backwards when it comes to the new public inquiry being launched into queue-jumping in the health-care system. Sure, it’s a troubling issue. But former Alberta Health […]

EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour says energy companies exploited a loophole in the province’s drilling stimulus programs, forcing the province to spend about $2.9 billion, more than double […]

Government advertising should be used to inform the public about programs and services, not to promote the party in power. The Redford government’s new $425,000 ad campaign on its recently […]

Politics in Alberta. Money for nothing and the cheques for free. Dire straits indeed. Let’s hope somewhere in their skulls or souls they know it’s wrong. We can always hope […]

Opponents of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives must go to sleep at night thanking the political gods for making life so easy for them. The PCs keep handing an endless supply of […]

Linda Sloan would make one great poker player. The president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association was handed a royal flush late last week, and when given the opportunity to […]

Low-level bullying is bad, but high-level bulling is fine. There’s the latest news flash from an inconsistent government. For writing a stupid letter to a local school board, PC MLA […]

Alberta’s chief electoral officer is now investigating more than 50 cases of alleged illegal donations to political parties – and actively weighing how best to penalize those responsible. According to […]

Over-the-top letter bolsters criticisms Tories govern through intimidation, pork-barrel politics When the leaked letter first crossed my desk, I thought somebody was pulling my leg. I suspected a prankster – […]

Don’t let the Alberta government tag fool you. What we’ve got here is a pure political piece of work, an ad where the provincial Tories want to get you to […]

Catholic board warned comments could delay new school decision A culture of “political extortion” practised by the Alberta government has been laid bare in a recent letter from northern Conservative […]

CALGARY — Tory MLA Hector Goudreau stepped in one huge cow pie when he told a northern school board last month that offending the wrong people could delay funding for […]

EDMONTON – With an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, Alberta currently fares better than any other Canadian province. But despite being fairly insulated from the economic turmoil plaguing the rest […]

A reasonable pace of oil-sands development would mean more jobs for Albertans, says AFL Calls to expand the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Alberta are a move to unfairly […]

Coalition calls for changes that would bring more workers into the province ahead of an anticipated shortage EDMONTON – An alliance of 19 Alberta business organizations called on the federal […]

Election 2012 Report Card, February 2012 Over the past several months, the AFL has given each party a chance to show us where they stand ont he issues important to […]

Election 2012 – Make It Count! (February 2012) Vote for working people. Let’s face it. Politicians only speak one language: getting elected!

More and more Albertans understand the value of having a stronger opposition. They know that if we have an effective opposition, we can hold the government accountable and take them […]