Alberta lost 70,000 salaried employees since UCP were elected
Alberta has the worst performance since 2018 of all the provinces.
New report claims living wage for Lethbridge family of 4 is $15 an hour
Alberta Living Wage Network calculated that a Lethbridge family of 4 could cover their living needs if both parents were working full-time and making $15 an hour.
New poll shows 1 in 3 Albertans aren’t paid enough to cover their bills
Alberta consumers are most likely to say that it’s becoming more expensive to feed themselves or their families.
UCP govt to cut postsecondary spending by $1.5 billion
That number increases to more than $3.5 billion if you factor in inflation and population growth.
Lethbridge city council appoints cop’s dad to police commission
Newly-elected city councillor John Middleton-Hope was recently appointed to the Lethbridge Police Commission. His son is a constable with LPS.
Alberta’s new $10/day childcare programme excludes some families
While $10 a day is better than what have now, there are a bunch of caveats.
Alberta announced $23M for homelessness but no actual homes
Nearly all the funding will be for temporary measures.
Keystone XL officially died in June 2021
And all Alberta has to show for it is $91 million in shares should the project ever sell off pipeline components.
UCP govt helping 2 Métis communities take Ottawa to court
The Métis Nation of Alberta denounced the spending of over $372,000 by the provincial government to these two groups.
Debunked: Alberta minimum wage workers aren’t mostly teens
Since 2011, the Alberta government has been publishing the “Alberta minimum wage profile”, a summary of the demographic information regarding those whose average hourly earnings are at or below minimum wage. This past June, the government added the minimum wage profile for workers during the period between October 2019 and September 2020. This was the […]
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