The good news is that the advanced education minister has postponed performance-based funding. The bad news is that the expenditure targets will still be in place.
Tag: lethbridge
In February, Lethbridge City Council passed a resolution to have administration to draft a bylaw regarding conversion therapy.
I decided to go through the campaign finance records for local campaigns and find some information on the donors. Today, I’m doing Lethbridge–West.
The City of Lethbridge recently published city council travel expenses. I collected and graphed the data for the last 3 years.
In fact, there are roughly 400% more non-religious people in Lethbridge than there are Mormons.
I discovered that among all 18 Alberta cities, Lethbridge has the highest property taxes.
Not only is Lethbridge tied for the lowest paid workers in the province, but workers here are paid $1,000 per month less than the average of all Alberta cities.
The majority of workers in Lethbridge can’t afford the average cost of rent.
So, a few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the labour history in Lethbridge. I discovered that historical information about labour in Lethbridge is not readily accessible. I intend to change that.
Given its propensity to vote in Conservative representatives, Lethbridge is known as a conservative stronghold. But it actually has a significant labour history going back over a century.