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2005 Spring Session Report: Seniors and Community Supports
The Liberal Opposition’s major accomplishments in Seniors and Community Supports this session included the government’s long-overdue increase to AISH levels, in response to the Liberals’ repeated calls for more help for AISH recipients. The 2005 provincial budget included an $80-million annual injection to the program, raising spending to $488 million per year for severely disabled Albertans who cannot work full time to support themselves. This is exactly what the Liberal Caucus had been calling for. However, we continued to criticize the government’s inability to conduct long-term planning when they failed to set a plan to ensure regular increases to the monthly living allowance.
| 08 June 2005 | Read More... |
Helping Alberta’s Seniors Lead Full and Active Lives
Today’s seniors are not content to watch life from the sidelines – they are actively involved in their communities and most are fully aware and engaged in the issues that affect them.
| 01 March 2005 | Read More... |
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| 21 February 2005 | Read More... |
Environment & Sustainable Resource Development
Logging in the Castle threatening grizzlies
Edmonton – Laurie Blakeman, Official Opposition Critic for Sustainable Resource Development (SRD), says logging in the Castle Crown Special Management Area further threatens Alberta’s tiny population of grizzly bears – a species already listed as “Threatened” under Alberta’s Wildlife Act.
| 02 February 2012 | Read More... |
Finance
Trust and Accountability
The Warlords of Alberta, Part Three: County of Camrose
In Alberta, important public servants such as city councillors, school boards and university officials are routinely invited to donate taxpayer money or participate in partisan political fundraisers for the governing Progressive Conservative Party. These public servants feel immense pressure to comply for fear of losing provincial government support for their communities. In effect, powerful government MLAs are acting as warlords, intimidating local officials to toe the party line.
| 01 February 2012 | Read More... |
Health, Seniors & Community Support
Municipal Affairs
Bed bugs biting Alberta seniors
Edmonton – Official Opposition Leader Raj Sherman and Edmonton-Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman say the state of some publicly funded seniors’ accommodations is unhealthy and an affront to the human dignity of Alberta’s seniors.
| 31 January 2012 | Read More... |
Energy
Environment & Sustainable Resource Development
Statement: Sherman on pipelines
Yesterday interim federal Liberal leader Bob Rae suggested that he does not approve the construction of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline. Alberta Liberals respect Mr. Rae, but he is on the wrong side of this issue.
| 31 January 2012 | Read More... |
Finance
Trust and Accountability
The Warlords of Alberta, Part Two: Big Lakes
In Alberta, important public servants such as city councillors, school boards and university officials are routinely invited to donate taxpayer money or participate in partisan political fundraisers for the governing Progressive Conservative Party. These public servants feel immense pressure to comply for fear of losing provincial government support for their communities. In effect, powerful government MLAs are acting as warlords, intimidating local officials to toe the party line.
| 27 January 2012 | Read More... |
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