Provincial Politics

Local school boards lobbying for mental health funding

Trustees for Red Deer Public Schools and Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools are teaming up to press the province for more funding for mental health initiatives.They will be doing so by sending a lette...

Jun 12, 2019

Local school boards pleased with province's plan to fund new students

News of the provincial government's plan to fully fund new students entering grade school classrooms this fall is welcome news for Red Deer's two largest school districts.Bev Manning, board chair for ...

Jun 11, 2019 Elementary school kids in a classroom raising their hands (ID 71526666 © Monkey Business Images | Dreamstime.com)

Alberta to bring in bill in fall to help First Nations invest in energy projects

EDMONTON - Alberta will bring in legislation this fall to create a Crown corporation backstopped by $1 billion to help First Nations invest in major energy projects like pipelines.Premier Jason Kenney...

Jun 11, 2019

Red Deer seniors take in pancakes and visit from provincial minister

Alberta seniors have a lot on their plate, but at the top of the list is housing, according to one local advocate.Jane Grenier-Frank, president of the Central Alberta Council on Aging, spoke to rdnews...

Jun 07, 2019 Rita Schuetz (left) receives breakfast from Seniors and Housing Minister Josephine Pon on Friday at the Golden Circle in Red Deer. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Kenney promises constitutional challenge if Bill C-48 is passed

EDMONTON- Premier Jason Kenney says he is deeply disappointed the Senate has voted not to kill the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic in the environmentally sensitive waters off north...

Jun 07, 2019

Alberta introduces amended Education Act

EDMONTON - Alberta is overhauling its framework for grade-school education for the first time in a generation, but the Opposition says it's just a cover to out gay kids and expose them to harm.A bill ...

Jun 05, 2019

Province tables bill to allow municipalities to provide tax breaks

EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government is introducing amendments to the Municipal Government Act with the goal of helping municipalities attract investment and development.Bill 7, the Municipal Gove...

Jun 04, 2019

Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone. Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mit...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with extreme weather events such as fires in northern Alberta. Trudeau says Canadians are seeing the impact of...

Jun 04, 2019

Kenney rejects Opposition attacks as Alberta halts new drug consumption sites

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting Opposition accusations that he is putting vulnerable Albertans at risk by freezing funds for proposed new supervised consumption drug sites.Kenney ...

Jun 03, 2019