Affordability
Cell and Internet services
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Childcare
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"We will double the per space funding grant to non-profit child care operators to create more child care spaces from $5,000/space to $10,000/space." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
Pensions
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Poverty and the minimum wage
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"As part of the review, we will consult on:
Eliminating the discrimination in Income Support eligibility and amounts between Barriers to Full Employment and AISH.
Removing unfair clawbacks and asset thresholds that keep people in poverty and are disincentives to training and employment.
The Income Supports Appeals Secretariat to improve accessibility and reduce poverty." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Public transit
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"The Alberta NDP is committed to supporting the Calgary Green Line LRT through an investment to begin land acquisition for the north leg of the project. Once completed, the north leg of the Green Line will extend from 16 Avenue North to 160 Avenue North." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
Seniors' benefits
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Tax measures and rebates
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"We will introduce a Kids’ Activity Tax Credit. This will provide parents with up to $500 per child per year to pay for activities, including sports, dance, music lessons, and more."
Utilities
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Climate Change & the Environment
Energy generation
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Land
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"With an initial investment of $5 million, we will support Indigenous environmental monitoring, Guardian programs, and Indigenous co-managed parks to enhance land, water, and biodiversity conservation and stewardship, and will also uphold Indigenous Rights under Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution by removing harmful regulations on hunting, harvesting, fishing, and gathering." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
"The Alberta NDP will create more trails, campsites, playgrounds, warm-up shelters and amenities like fish-cleaning stations through an additional $40 million investment in parks and public lands infrastructure. This will bring the total investment to $250 million over three years." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Public transit
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"The Alberta NDP is committed to supporting the Calgary Green Line LRT through an investment to begin land acquisition for the north leg of the project. Once completed, the north leg of the Green Line will extend from 16 Avenue North to 160 Avenue North." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Education
Diversity in schools
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"And an Alberta NDP government will re-introduce legal protections for GSAs in schools, allowing students to create and participate in them without delays, restrictions, or reprisal." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
"We will support language learning and we will work with First Nations to develop K-12 curriculum in 6 of Alberta’s most prominent Indigenous languages - Dene, Nehiyâwewin (Cree), Isga (Nakota Sioux), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Tsuu’tina and Michif." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Post-secondary costs and tuition
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Post-secondary institutions
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"The Alberta NDP has allocated $45 million over three years to fund the planning and site preparation for the construction of the NAIT Advanced Skills Centre. Presently, NAIT trains around 8,600 apprentices annually, but with projected growth, Alberta is expected to require 51,000 new apprentices within the next three years." — Building a Better Future for Edmonton, retrieved 2023-05-22
School construction and upgrades
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School curriculum
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"In our first 100 days, we will work to review and revise the curriculum to ensure it’s modern, inclusive, and supports Alberta students to excel and compete globally."
School nutrition
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"We’ll work to ensure no child goes hungry by investing an additional $35 million in a School Nutrition Program to provide nutritious food for up to 75,000 students across Alberta." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
School staffing
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Student loans
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Health & Healthcare
Gender-affirming care
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Health staffing
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Healthcare availability
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"The Healthcare Innovation Challenge Fund is a groundbreaking initiative by the Alberta NDP, and is the first of its kind in the province. Through the fund, the Alberta NDP will invest an initial $75 million over the next three years to prioritize the procurement, scaling, and deployment of innovative solutions in healthcare settings across Alberta Health Services." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
Hospitals
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"We will proceed with construction and explore opportunities to speed up the completion timeline.
The South Edmonton Hospital will be built according to its original plan for 500 patient beds. We will not scale back operations to cut costs, and we will ensure the hospital is fully staffed as part of our targeted healthcare recruitment strategy and plan to introduce Family Health Teams." — Building a Better Future for Edmonton, retrieved 2023-05-22
"An Alberta NDP Government will:
- Press forward urgently with the expansion of the hospital, and explore any opportunity to speed up the timeline
- Recruit and train new healthcare workers to ensure the hospital is fully staffed
- Be transparent with the project's timeline and communicate any changes
The UCP has failed to deliver any substantial progress on expanding the Red Deer Hospital. After nearly four years they have quietly delayed the project even further.
We will never pursue a P3 construction model for the hospital, as these models only lead to further delays." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09
"Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP have pledged $40 million to support the planning and design of a new, stand-alone Stollery Children's Hospital." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
"The Alberta NDP will build the Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub, ensuring Calgary is a leader in cancer care across Canada. The Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub will develop clinical trials and deploy cutting-edge treatments and technologies.
The Alberta Cancer Innovation Hub is part of a broader commitment to improve research and development in Alberta’s life sciences industries and encourage patenting and commercialization of Alberta-based intellectual property. Most importantly, improve cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for all Albertans." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
"This includes the South Edmonton Hospital, Red Deer Hospital, staffing the Calgary Cancer Centre and Grand Prairie Hospital, planning for a North Calgary Health Campus, a new Stollery Children’s Hospital serving Edmonton all of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, a Cardiac Catheterization Lab at the Chinook Regional Hospital, and a new X-Ray machine in Morinville."
Primary care
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"With the Alberta NDP, if you need a family doctor, you will get a family doctor, and we will never make you pay for this."
Seniors' health and services
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"The Shingrix vaccine will be made available free of charge to every Albertan who receives the Alberta Seniors Benefit and who wants the vaccine. We will also offer the vaccine to all Albertans in continuing care or are clients of home care." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09
Sexual and reproductive health
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"This plan would cover oral hormone pills, contraceptive injections, copper and hormonal intrauterine devices, subdermal implants, and Plan B." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09
Housing & Homelessness
Affordable housing
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"In addition to increasing financial supports for rental assistance and rental supplements, the Alberta NDP’s Affordable Housing Plan outlines our commitment to invest capital funding and support the construction of affordable housing units in Calgary. Our plan will support the City of Calgary’s efforts to build the remaining 11,500 units required to meet their goals by 2026." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
"In addition to increasing financial assistance for rental support programs, the Alberta NDP's Affordable Housing Plan includes capital funding and the construction of thousands of affordable housing units in Edmonton. This includes the development of supportive housing with comprehensive services to address complex needs. Our plan aligns with the City of Edmonton's Affordable Housing Investment Plan." — Building a Better Future for Edmonton, retrieved 2023-05-22
"Supporting Indigenous-led and designed housing, and providing wrap-around support"
Rental housing
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"Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP will provide more funding for wrap-around supports within affordable housing and create a rent bank to protect housing for Albertans when they face a crisis like a job loss or family emergency." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-09
Shelters and homeless services
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Jobs & the Economy
Agriculture
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"Create an Alberta Value-Add Incentive Program to help companies access capital." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
"Set up a Local Food Incentive task force to incentivize small-scale, rural start-ups that can upgrade local ingredients to new food products." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
"Increase staff dedicated to help navigate services and agri-food and value-added approvals." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-19
Calgary
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"The Alberta NDP is committed to supporting the Calgary Green Line LRT through an investment to begin land acquisition for the north leg of the project. Once completed, the north leg of the Green Line will extend from 16 Avenue North to 160 Avenue North." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
"In addition to increasing financial supports for rental assistance and rental supplements, the Alberta NDP’s Affordable Housing Plan outlines our commitment to invest capital funding and support the construction of affordable housing units in Calgary. Our plan will support the City of Calgary’s efforts to build the remaining 11,500 units required to meet their goals by 2026." — Building a Better Future for Calgary, retrieved 2023-05-22
"This funding will support improvements to the Chinese Cultural Centre, Sien Lok Park, and other Chinese cultural hubs in the community, as well as upgrades to the public realm surrounding many of Chinatown’s businesses and social spaces." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Economic diversification
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"Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP have a plan to attract $20 billion in private-sector capital investment and create 47,000 good-paying jobs."
"An additional 10 per cent will be awarded for new capital investment that goes further — generating key outcomes like high-skilled job opportunities, new technological capacity in our province, or new sector skills and know-how."
Oil & petrochemicals
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"This will expand the eligible feedstocks of the program to include, for example, recycled plastics, will expand the program to include end-products and will bring back partial upgrading — which was removed by the UCP."
Startups and small businesses
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"We will eliminate the small business tax for more than 100,000 small businesses, including retail establishments, restaurants, mechanic shops, family farms and more."
Unions
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Working conditions
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"Giving Fort McMurray firefighters retroactive access to WCB coverage through legislation. This will include respiratory illnesses and cancer coverage retroactive to 2003. And we’ll consult with other essential personnel groups that occupied Fort McMurray at the same time to provide the same coverage." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
"Legislating a Catastrophic Event definition, to ensure all workers involved in such events have access to similar coverage without needing legislative changes." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Society & Government
Budgets
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Community spaces and facilities
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"Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP are announcing a new program called “Hometown Alberta” to build and improve local community facilities, like hockey rinks, in every corner of the province." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-22
"Our Hometown Alberta program will create 1,500 jobs over three years and build stronger communities by supporting municipalities and non-profits to build, repair, renovate, upgrade or expand local community facilities, including sports, recreational, religious, cultural and other public-use spaces.
Hometown Alberta would help build or improve community halls, legion halls, non-profit spaces, seniors centres, recreation centres, museum, art and culture centres, playgrounds, or places of worship.
Building off the current Community Facility Enhancement Program, we would increase grant funding available and add a new $100-million annual capital investment funding stream, so communities can build new spaces to gather at and enjoy!" — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-22
Immigrant settlement
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Policing
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Public safety
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"The Alberta NDP will hire 150 more police officers and pair them with 150 social workers, mental health workers, addictions counsellors and community navigators to improve public safety and provide support."
"Establish a long-term agreement with municipalities to support: stable and predictable police funding and an increased use of integrated police-community service teams; Indigenous partnerships; and provincial accountability for services such as affordable housing." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-20
Racism and diversity
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Social services
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Sovereignty and Independence
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Misc. topics
Arts and culture
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Parks
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In the meantime, you can learn more about them on their website.
Biography
Marlin is a passionate advocate for his community and works to ensure all Alberta families have access to the essential services they rely on.
During his time as Minister of Advanced Education, Marlin made life more affordable for students across Alberta. He modernized Alberta’s post-secondary system and froze tuition to make career training more accessible to more Albertans.
Marlin’s professional background is as a geologist and he is currently the Opposition Critic for Environment and Parks. Marlin has worked tirelessly to protect Alberta’s Rocky Mountains and watersheds from the UCP’s coal mining plans.
In the meantime, you can learn more about them on their website.
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