Alberta’s NDP is demanding the immediate re-establishment of a Ministerial Panel to see through urgently needed improvements to supports for children in care and child intervention services in the wake of a new report that sees 2021 verging on a grim record. 1/4 #ableg
Figures released by the Ministry of Children’s Services this week show that between April 1, 2021 and October 31, 2021, 30 young Albertans receiving child intervention have died. 2/4 #ableg
Four more deaths have been reported this month alone, for a total of 34 so far this year. Thirty-four deaths ties a record for the most deaths in a single year dating back to 2013 and there are still five months remaining in the fiscal year. 3/4 #ableg
“These are children and young adults placed in government care.

“They were put in government care to give them a new start, to give them a chance and they were failed,” said NDP Children’s Services Critic Rakhi Pancholi. 4/4 #ableg

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22 Nov
We can use the energy resources owned by all Albertans to make hydrogen that dramatically lowers our own carbon footprint while powering a global hydrogen economy.

#cdnenergy #ableg #abfuture

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We have the opportunity to succeed as the world’s leading low-cost, low-emission hydrogen producer.
Our renewable energy proposal on hydrogen, released at AlbertasFuture.ca, explores large-scale commercial production, innovation and export of hydrogen fuel, including a potential new export pipeline.
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21 Oct
My formal statement in response to the release of the Steve Allan Report:

This report will not create jobs for Albertans. After several years of work and millions of Alberta tax dollars spent, the UCP has done nothing to open new markets for our energy products. 1/8 #ableg #yyc
Our provincial government must be focused on finding jobs, not looking for enemies. Instead, they are deliberately lying about the funding being provided to charitable groups and the intended purpose of that money. 2/8 #ableg #yyc
We need to build support for industry, continue to promote ourselves internationally and build a reputation as the sustainable source for global energy. Alberta is at a critical juncture. 3/8 #ableg #yyc
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20 Oct
Heather Sweet (@heathersweetab) has been named the NDP’s Rural Economic Development Critic.

She will be tasked with engaging Albertans and developing a plan to grow and diversify the province’s rural economy. 1/6 #ableg #abfuture
Heather will be reaching out to rural Albertans through the NDP’s Alberta’s Future initiative - a long-term project to hear from Albertans on ways to build a more diversified economy that works for everyone. 2/6 #ableg #abfuture
Last week marked one year since the NDP launched Alberta’s Future. To date, the NDP have held nearly 40 public consultations and have engaged over 50,000 Albertans through the project. 3/6 #ableg #abfuture
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8 Oct
NDP Finance Critic @SPhillipsAB issued the following statement regarding the release of September’s job numbers by Stats Canada:

"While September’s job figures are encouraging news, there are still serious concerns about the health of Alberta’s job market and economy.

#ableg
“The UCP government’s failure to prepare for the fourth wave of the pandemic is hurting business and consumer confidence, as Calgary faces the second lowest business activity in the country, according to Statistics Canada.

#ableg
“Alberta’s unemployment rate remains significantly higher than the national average and is the highest outside of the Atlantic provinces.

#ableg
Read 5 tweets
7 Oct
In Fort McMurray, healthcare workers have been treating patients brought in from all over the Alberta Health Services North Zone. Workers are burnt out, stressed beyond belief and struggling to keep up with a continual rush of patients.

#ableg #fortmac
I know there’s some help from Newfoundland coming to Fort McMurray this weekend and they are most welcome. These workers will help no doubt, but let’s be clear that Fort McMurray has opened more ICU beds than ever before.
Alberta’s NDP Opposition has proposed direct payments to working nurses and those who would come out of retirement to help staff hospitals, as well as an intense door-to-door vaccination program in partnership with community groups.
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30 Sep
I want to answer a question that Jason Kenney clearly didn’t understand this week.

And that question is: What do you say to the frontline healthcare workers heading to work today?
1/7 #ableg #abhealth
My message to these workers is that I am incredibly grateful for the immense sacrifices you have made and are still making … and I know the overwhelming majority of Albertans are grateful as well.

I hear you when you say you are in crisis. 2/7 #ableg #abhealth
Just as you have shown up for us, it is our job to show up for you, and do everything we can to help.

I know that you have worked incredibly hard for more than a year and half of this pandemic. 3/7 #ableg #abhealth
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