BREAKING: How many times have we heard the UCP accuse its critics of not respecting or listening to Hinshaw? As it turns out, it’s the UCP itself who hasn’t been respecting or listening to her. Bombshell report on secret recordings. #COVIDAB#AbLeg#abpolicbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
In early June, against Hinshaw’s advice, the government shifted away from orders to “education.” 'We need to be leading Albertans where they want to go, not forcing them where they don't want to go,’ was the way Hinshaw characterized the UCP’s position.
While other provinces were cracking down on businesses and individuals who violated COVID guidance, the UCP refused to support consequences for offenders. “They don’t want us to enforce anything.”
Between early April and early September, the Alberta government received 29,000 complaints about violations of COVID orders. But only 62 enforcement orders were issued. (That compares to about 700 enforcement orders in a similar timeframe).
We have no idea how many inspections of worksites the Alberta government conducted to ensure compliance with COVID guidance (if any). BC conducted 51,000 inspections.
700 orders in BC...in the same period (sorry for the omission) Typing too fast!
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More than $300 million in federal wage top-ups that should have been paid out to lower-wage frontline workers in Alberta months ago is still being held up by UCP foot-dragging and political manoeuvring. Shameful! #AbLeg#abpoli#COVID19AB#cdnpoli#canlabcbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Don’t let the Kenney government tell you they’re ‘still negotiating with the feds.’ No other province is having any problems. The UCP here in Alberta are the ones who are holding things up by not kicking in their share.
Here is the document that the federal NDP obtained in response to the inquiry to Parliament they submitted on behalf of the AFL. It shows that most or all of the available money has already flowed to front line workers in other provinces. In Alberta? Only 3.5 percent!
As Alberta blows past 1000 COVID-19 cases a day, Jason Kenney needs to stop behaving like a Republican Governor. If he doesn’t, we’ll look like Republican states, with overwhelmed hospitals and refrigerator trucks outside to store the dead. #COVID19AB#AbLeg#abpoli#cdnpoli
Albertans will pay a steep price as Kenney continues to follow Trump’s playbook on COVID, says AFL president in urgent speech posted to You Tube. Alberta’s largest worker organization supports call for “circuit-breaker” lockdown. #AbLeg#abpoli#canlabafl.org/albertans_will…
Excerpts from the speech: "Premier Kenney said he would act when faced with a catastrophe. Well, a catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes. But instead of action, all we get is Republican-inspired talking points and half measures."
When chief medical officers of health like @CMOH_Alberta defer to politicians like Jason Kenney and fail to use their legal powers to save lives ... it’s like a firefighter refusing to order people out of a burning building. Ouch. #AbLeg#abpolimacleans.ca/opinion/politi…
“Every province in Canada equips their medical officers of health with the power to make systemic orders.”
“...most medical officers of health are only rarely using their powers in the second wave, or worse, they are doing so only with the consent of politicians.”
Charles Koch is the billionaire who bankrolled a successful 40-year campaign to poison the minds of Americans and plant the seeds of corporate authoritarianism. Now he wants to “build bridges” with progressives. Don’t fall for it! #USAelection2020wsj.com/articles/charl…
Yesterday’s wildcat strike by health care workers is over, but the conditions that created it remain. Just read the statements made by UCP finance Minister Toews. He says there will be no layoffs — while confirming there will be layoffs. 1/n #AbLeg#abpolicbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
He then goes on to blame the workers for putting patients at risk — when it is the UCP government itself that is putting patients at risk by implementing a radical restructuring of the health care systems in the midst of a surging pandemic. 2/n #AbLeg#abpoli
And he says that workers must obey labour laws — when the UCP tramples on all the laws, norms & traditions that surround Canadian labour law every day. They have zero respect for the collective bargaining process, believing they should simply be able to impose their will. 3/n
Wildcat strikes have apparently begun at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and the Foothills Hospital in Calgary. When Kenney and the UCP decided to attack health care during a pandemic did he really think workers wouldn’t fight back? #Solidarity#AbLeg#canlab#cdnpoli
The strikes have now spread to the South Health campus in Calgary (huge!), as well as hospitals in Westlock (my home town!) and Cold Lake. Alberta Hospital in north Edmonton has also joined in.
Many, many more sites are now reporting that they’ve gone on strike. Trying to get a full list, but it’s hard to keep up. Stay tuned!