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26,000 Albertans got their 1st COVID vaccine in Jan

Maybe our perceptions aren’t quite accurate regarding how we view Albertans who are still unvaccinated.

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1 in 4 poll respondents satisfied with Kenney’s COVID-19 response

That being said, Kenney has the lowest approval rating in Canada and trails Trudeau in Alberta.

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Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs were paid $1.1B in 2020

Alberta saw 9 CEOs cut from the top 100 list, compared to 2019.

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What Whitney Issik left out about women workers

Alberta’s associate minister of the status of women was praising employment data for women workers in the province last week, but she left out a few details.

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Alberta has largest unemployment rate in Western Canada

Alberta had the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada in December 2021

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Record number of drug responses for Lethbridge EMS in 2021

This was driven by the third quarter, which saw EMS responding to more opioid-related events than in any other third quarter since 2018. Actually, than any other quarter since 2018.

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Alberta lost 8,500 people to other provinces since UCP elected

Since the UCP were elected in the spring of 2019, Alberta has seen 166,472 people move here from other provinces. However, 174,962 people left here for other provinces during the same period.

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Increasing wages in Alberta doesn’t lead to higher inflation

Or more specifically, there is far more at play regarding inflation than just wages.

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Canada completed 3 of TRC’s 94 calls to action in 2021

This brings the total to 11 completed calls to action since the TRC released their report in 2015. That’s fewer than 2 a year.

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Did the NDP actually destroy Alberta’s oil & gas sector?

It seems as though I can’t go anywhere online lately without someone complaining that the NDP shut down the oil and gas sector in Alberta. But how true is that claim?