Tag Archives: Provincial Politics
Highlights from Alberta budget 2019
Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget Thursday. Here are some of the highlights:* $8.7-billion deficit on revenues of $50 billion.* Debt projected to rise from the current $63 bil...
Oct 24, 2019
Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre expansion not part of Alberta's budget
The first budget from Alberta's United Conservative Government does not include capital funding for Red Deer Regional Hospital expansion.Instead, the capital plan for the budget tabled Thursday by Fin...
Oct 24, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Budget 2019: Debt still grows but path to balance mapped out
Calgary, AB - With a mountain of debt for Albertans to climb out of while being weighed down by low commodity prices for oil and gas, Alberta's 2019 budget is still boasting the lowest tax rate in Can...
Oct 24, 2019 Finance Minister Travis Toews (Photo: Government of Alberta)
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
Premier Kenney to speak in television address tonight
On the eve of the provincial budget, Premier Jason Kenney is taking to the airwaves to speak to Albertans.Kenney will speak in a televised address that will air at 6:10 p.m. on Global News. it will al...
Oct 23, 2019
UCP government to continue with NDP’s petrochemical credit program, cancel two others
The United Conservative government in Alberta says it will continue with a program introduced by the former NDP regime to use $1.1 billion in natural gas royalty credits to encourage new petrochemical...
Oct 23, 2019
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
Kenney to Trudeau: "The time for talk is over"
EDMONTON- After the Liberals failed to secure a single seat in Alberta or Saskatchewan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hears Alberta's frustrations.Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says that isn't ...
Oct 23, 2019 Premiers Jason Kenney and Scott Moe
Broncos family member content with province's direction on trucker safety legislation
The sister of late Humboldt Broncos head coach Darcy Haugan says she'd be glad if the tragedy weren't used as a political football.Deborah Carpenter, who lives in Red Deer, spoke with rdnewsNOW after ...
Oct 19, 2019