Alberta Health Services plans to lay off 750 front-line nurses, union says | CBC News
The government had promised “not to touch front-line health workers,” Smith said in a news release.
McNeil says talk of any province leaving Canada ‘makes absolutely no sense’ | CBC News
McNeil and his counterparts will meet next
week in Toronto under a cloud of western discontent, with concerns
emanating from Alberta and Saskatchewan about the level of support they’re receiving from the federal government
at a particularly challenging economic time for the two
provinces, whose economies are so directly tied to natural resource
development.
Those worries have fuelled talk amongst some people
about the idea of provinces being better off if they were on their own,
rather than a part of the federation. McNeil said he doesn’t have much
time for that kind of talk, despite whatever challenges people might be
facing.
Secession Would Make Alberta World’s Biggest Carbon Polluter – The Energy Mix
“Saudi Arabia currently holds the title for world’s most dangerous nation, regularly ranking dead last in analyses of climate performance,” Vancouver-based freelancer Chris Hatch writes for National Observer, in summary text for the Saxifrage data. But “on a per capita basis, Alberta is already three times as bad as Saudi Arabia.”
I suppose those boos could have been because Mr. Kenney was dressed like dweeb in a lame “I-heart-mapleleaf-oil-&-gas” bunnyhug, thereby “politicizing” one of the sacred rituals of Canadian professional sports. You know, the east-versus-west championship contest of our very own underpaid American-style football league, which comes complete with its own esoteric rulebook that still astonishes our cousins south of the 49th Parallel. Twelve players? Three downs? Say what?
Hundreds of public sector workers protest post-secondary layoffs | CBC News
“We’re here to tell Jason Kenney, ‘hey, you lied to us, because you said you weren’t going to touch front-line services,’” he said.
“Well, here we have an example where hundreds of front-line positions are being cut. So I don’t know what else we can expect from this government. They’ve been arrogant, aggressive, and they’ve lied to us.
"I think all Albertans should start getting concerned by that.”