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Jun 23, 2011
Media ReleaseJune 23, 2011 Join Together Alberta holds Edmonton Town Hall to save education, health and social services EDMONTON - Join Together Alberta (JTA) is holding a town hall meeting tonight in Edmonton to challenge cuts to education, health care...
Jun 16, 2011
Fluctuating revenues lead to cuts when oil prices decline Lethbridge Herald Opinion In industries such as oil and gas, revenues can fluctuate, sometimes wildly, with the ebbs and flows of the market. For a province such as Alberta, whose revenue is...
Jun 15, 2011
Media ReleaseJune 15, 2011 Join Together Alberta holds Calgary Town Hall to save education, health and social services With 331 jobs set to be lost in Calgary’s public schools alone, Join Together Alberta is holding a Town Hall meeting tonight in Calgary...
Jun 09, 2011
By Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of LabourPrinted as a guest column in the Edmonton Journal People such as Premier Ed Stelmach and Education Minister Dave Hancock want Albertans to believe that these are tough times. They want us to...
Jun 08, 2011
By Eric Plummer, Grande Prairie Herald-Tribune A forum on Alberta's delivery of essential services comes to Grande Prairie on Thursday. Non-partisan presentations on the province's funding cuts to education and health care will be part of Join Together...
Jul 06, 2010
By Don Braid, Calgary Herald Stephen Duckett, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services, sits alongside AHS vice chair Catherine Roozen during the AHS public board meeting June 29 at Rockyview Hospital. Alberta Health Services' budget released last...
Jun 23, 2010
Closed-door meetings criticized for 'vague, nice principles' with few details By Sheila Pratt, Edmonton Journal Senior citizen Wilma Morin said she hopes the government got the message on health reform. She was one of 50 Edmontonians at a closed-door...
Jun 11, 2010
By Mimi Williams mimi@vueweekly.com In January, when the Advisory Committee on Health recommended the introduction of a new Alberta Health Act, Health and Wellness Minister Gene Zwozdesky appointed Edmonton Rutherford MLA Fred Horne to lead a public...
Jun 04, 2010
Friends of Medicare has learned that the Stelmach government is pressing forward with their plans to make sweeping changes to Alberta’s health laws without the benefit of full public hearings.  Instead, Alberta Health and Wellness will host 28 “...
May 25, 2010
Friends of Medicare has learned that the Stelmach government is pressing forward with their plans to make sweeping changes to Alberta’s health laws without the benefit of full public hearings.  Instead, Alberta Health and Wellness will host 28 “...
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