When we were in government, Labour Day was a time to reflect on the progress we had made together on safer workplaces and ensuring hard-working families could make ends meet, and on our next steps.
✅ Steps like increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour, to make sure a worker didn't have to go to the food bank after her shift to feed her family.
✅ Steps like our affordable child care pilot centres offering almost 1,300 quality, $25 a day child care spaces helping more Alberta women enter or stay in the workforce.
✅ Steps like improving the safety of gas station and convenience store workers with mandatory pre-pay for fuel.
✅ And banning the mandatory use of high heels in restaurants and other workplaces.
Now, with the Kenney government in power, on Labour Day we commit to fighting against all the things the UCP are doing that hurt hard-working Albertans, their wages, and their security.
Premier Kenney is rolling your back wages and overtime pay, playing with your pensions, and attacking the public sector workers that the rest of us rely on to provide the services we count on.
We will fight for an Alberta that works for all Albertans, one that supports working people, one where there’s economic prosperity for everyone not just those at the top.
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We’re sharing documents that have come into our possession. I'll be completely candid - they showed up in the mail. I don’t know who sent them.
There are 35 pages of photos of a presentation to cabinet detailing the UCP’s scheme to rip apart Albertans’ public health care.
This is a plan to massively concentrate control of healthcare in Danielle Smith’s office.
It’s a blueprint for chaos in our clinics and hospitals.
Those UCP members who cheered for more rural or local decision-making in healthcare at their AGM this weekend are about to find out they’ve been brutally double-crossed. None of that is in here.
Three years ago, like many Albertans, my family adopted a "COVID pup" from Zoe’s animal rescue society. 🧵
Johnny was a tiny puppy, we had no idea he’d get so big (over 90 lbs now).
We watched with amazement (and a little horror) as he grew by leaps and grounds that summer.
With big dog comes big love. Johnny is a great cuddler. Johnny is trained-ish.
Johnny loves his food, a good bone and barking at birds he will never catch.
We all feel a little safer when he growls at cats walking by the house. If you are looking for a pet, or just want to support a fine animal rescue organization – I can’t recommend Zoe’s enough.
If we win this election, we will expand affordable childcare to include before- and after-school care—and we will accelerate $10/day childcare for all Albertans.
We need affordable childcare that works for working parents.
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“Childcare creates opportunities for our kids to have the best start in life by preparing them for school and ensuring they learn through play,” said @pancholi_rakhi.
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In 2019, the UCP cancelled the Alberta NDP’s affordable childcare program and failed to implement the federally funded $10-a-day childcare program, leaving thousands of parents on waitlists.