Alberta’s premier recently claimed that Alberta was the only province in Canada to see an increase in consumer confidence last month. But she wasn’t telling the whole story.
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And that’s despite rising 3 spots in the index.
We’ve seen the worst performance of all the provinces in Canada. So much for being the economic engine of Canada.
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15,000 Albertans lost their job last month
Alberta lost 10,000 full-time jobs overall in November, nearly wiping out the 14,000 full-time jobs they gained the previous month.
Since at least 2012, the number of acute care beds per person in Alberta has been decreasing, despite hundreds of more beds. The opposite is the case for continuing care beds and addictions/mental health care beds.
If approved, this will make 5 years of wage freezes over the last 6 years.
Lethbridge EMS responded to the second highest number of drug-related events during October 2022 than in any other October over the last 5 years, building on an upward trend that started in June.
After just 1 week after one of Danielle Smith’s former Wildrose MLAs registered as a lobbyist for a Banff-based holding company trying to get a rail line built, Smith started advocating for the very thing the lobbyists were lobbying for.
Alberta gained 14,000 full-time jobs overall, but that was barely enough to cover the loss of 13,100 seen in August.
One other community had lost ambulatory care.