Alberta Worker
Earlier this month, Rob Roach, an economist with ATB Economics, posted the following tweet: Doug Schweitzer, Alberta’s economy minister, was pretty happy to see the tweet and even retweeted it. He wasn’t the only one though. His own press secretary did, too, as did the press secretary for the health minister, the press secretary for […]
Even though total production has been higher under the UCP, the pace at which it has grown has slowed.
Alberta still has the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada.
A 9th community had its obstetrics department closed until May.
2022 had the second worst year-over-year first quarter performance of the last 6 years.
Lethbridge EMS responded to the highest number of drug-related events during the 1st quarter of 2022 than in any other 1st quarter over the last 5 years.
Alberta was the only province west of Atlantic Canada with unemployment still over 6%.
One of the communities lost its emergency department for nearly 200 hours.
Meanwhile, the oil sands operations produce over 70 megatonnes of emissions every year.
One thing I often hear from UCP supporters is that the NDP drove up the deficit by creating more public sector jobs. So I took a look at the data.