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Alberta NDP slams UCP, ex-finance minister for big COVID-19 bonus to health chief
Rachel Notley makes an announcement at a news conference in Calgary on Monday, March 15, 2021. The Alberta Opposition Leader says the United Conservative Party government, particularly former finance minister Travis Toews, must bear the responsibility and the fallout for the record-setting six-figure bonus payment to the chief medical officer of health during the COVID-19 pandemic.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta NDP Leader Notley says external firm will examine staff and volunteer treatment by NDP
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley attends a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Notley says Alberta NDP has ‘fallen short’ on respect for staff, volunteers
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley announces proposed new legislation to protect Alberta's mountains and watershed from coal mining at a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta NDP responds to internal letter alleging poor treatment of volunteers
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks at a news conference in Calgary on Monday, March 15, 2021. The government has begun enforcing a paid pass required to visit popular parks in Kananaskis Country, but the Opposition NDP says if it wins government, the fee will be scrapped. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Enforcement begins on Alberta’s K-Country pass; NDP opposition promises to axe it
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks at a news conference in Calgary on Monday, March 15, 2021. The government has begun enforcing a paid pass required to visit popular parks in Kananaskis Country, but the Opposition NDP says if it wins government, the fee will be scrapped. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Rachel Notley is the happiest opposition leader on the planet
Gary Mason
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NDP says data shows Alberta’s emergency medical services in crisis
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley attends a news conference in Calgary on Monday, March 15, 2021. Notley says a renewed abortion rights fight in the United States is a “dark, dark day” and she's calling on Premier Jason Kenney’s government to affirm its commitment to women’s rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta government alters bereavement leave legislation amid abortion debate
Alberta premier Jason Kenney shakes hands with Kaycee Madu after being sworn into office in Edmonton on Tuesday April 30, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta Opposition leader Rachel Notley demands province affirm abortion rights
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley attends a news conference in Calgary on Monday, March 15, 2021. Notley says a renewed abortion rights fight in the United States is a “dark, dark day” and she's calling on Premier Jason Kenney’s government to affirm its commitment to women’s rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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NDP bill to protect Alberta Rockies from coal mining dies in legislature committee
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley announces proposed new legislation to protect Alberta's mountains and watershed from coal mining at a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 15, 2021. A private member's bill before the Alberta legislature that would have blocked all coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountains has died after government members voted against it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta premier, UCP pandering to COVID-19 blockaders, NDP Opposition leader says
NDP leader Rachel Notley, in Edmonton, Alta., on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Alberta's Opposition Leader says Premier Jason Kenney is treating illegal blockaders with kid gloves in order to curry favour with them and their supporters at a crucial upcoming party leadership vote. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta NDP politician steps aside while RCMP investigate computer privacy breach
Alberta NDP MLA Thomas Dang, 20, signs up for his official phone in Edmonton, Alberta on Thursday, May 21, 2015. Dang is the youngest in his party. Amber Bracken for The Globe and Mail
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Alberta’s top doctor says COVID-19 cases receding but vigilance needed at Halloween
Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provides a COVID-19 update in Edmonton, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. Hinshaw says the numbers continue to recede on COVID-19. But Dr. Deena Hinshaw cautions that the hospital situation remains precarious given the high number of patients. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta NDP calls for mandatory COVID-19 vaccine rules for non-essential business
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Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley promises to make Alberta a green energy powerhouse
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks at a news conference in Calgary on March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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COVID-19 news today: Alberta suspends legislature; Ontario to expand vaccination rollout
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Alberta Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board, Travis Toews walk in to give the 2021 budget in Edmonton Alta, on Thursday February 25, 2021. Kenney's government is suspending the spring sitting of the legislature due to soaring, record-breaking caseloads of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta passes bill to give all workers paid leave to get COVID-19 vaccine shot
AstraZeneca vaccine bottles at a Pharmacy in Edgeware, London, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, as Britain continues use of the vaccine. In recent days, countries including Denmark, Ireland and Thailand have temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after reports that some people who got a dose developed blood clots, even though there's no evidence that the shot was responsible. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available do not suggest the vaccine caused the clots.?(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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Opposition bill to protect Rocky Mountains from coal mining allowed to proceed to legislature
Alberta NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley announces proposed new legislation to protect Alberta's mountains and watershed from coal mining at a news conference in Calgary on March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta MLAs air grievances with letter opposing COVID-19 restrictions
Kelly Cryderman
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Private member’s bill would protect mountains from coal mines, Alberta NDP says
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley announces proposed new legislation to protect Alberta's mountains and watershed from coal mining at a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta NDP call for stricter public health measures to be reinstated as COVID-19 variant cases rise
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks during a news conference in Calgary, on March 15, 2021.
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Alberta, Ottawa to distribute $465-million to COVID-19 front-line workers
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks during a news conference in Calgary, on Sept. 15, 2020.
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A leader’s political death can come from a thousand small cuts
Kelly Cryderman
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Keystone XL may be the end of Alberta’s risky investments
Kelly Cryderman
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Critics decry reading list issued by Alberta’s energy inquiry commissioner as climate change denial
FILE PHOTO: The Syncrude tar sands plant and tailings pond at their tar sands operation north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, November 3, 2011. A tailings pond holds all the toxic waste from oil sands extraction process. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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RCMP in Alberta investigate report of man wearing what appeared to be KKK hood
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. RCMP in central Alberta have charged a woman who worked as a health-care aide for failing to isolate after returning from a trip to the United States. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Kenney says his government was right to balance COVID-19 with economy
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney answers questions after announcing $43 million in repairs and improvements to provincial parks at a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
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Alberta Opposition calls for more virus contact tracers as case numbers rise
NDP Leader Rachel Notley says a recent Harvard University study suggests Alberta needs 1,300 contact tracers.
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Alberta’s opposition NDP at work on proposals to reshape the province’s economy
NDP leader Rachel Notley, gives a concession speech after election results, in Edmonton on April 16, 2019. Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley says it's a good idea for Premier Jason Kenney to delay release of his Fair Deal panel report, given the federal government has outshone Kenney's efforts to aid Albertans through the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Rachel Notley to stay on as Alberta NDP leader for 2023 provincial election
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is seen in an April 16, 2019, file photo.
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‘Intensely hypocritical action’: Alberta NDP call out UCP refusal to consult on parks changes
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley speaks in Edmonton, on April 16, 2019.
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Kenney rejects NDP call to fire speech writer who called residential schools ‘bogus genocide'
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks during a press conference in Edmonton on Feb. 24, 2020.
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Alberta to resume environmental monitoring, reporting at oil-patch operations
FILE PHOTO: The Syncrude tar sands plant and tailings pond at their tar sands operation north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, November 3, 2011. A tailings pond holds all the toxic waste from oil sands extraction process. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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Alberta NDP mocks Kenney’s UCP for taking COVID-19 subsidy for party wages from ‘sugar daddy’ Trudeau
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney updates media on measures taken to help with COVID-19, in Edmonton on Friday, March 20, 2020. Alberta's United Conservative Party says it is applying for the federal wage subsidy program during the COVID-19 pandemic while the Opposition NDP says it is holding off.
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Kenney wise to delay releasing ‘fair deal’ report given Ottawa’s COVID-19 aid: Alberta NDP
NDP leader Rachel Notley, gives a concession speech after election results, in Edmonton on April 16, 2019.
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Alberta Energy Regulator temporarily suspends environmental requirements for oil and gas sites
Oil goes into a tailings pond at the Suncor oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. REUTERS/Todd Korol//File Photo