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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 3d

Alberta’s New Democrats stand with teachers. ❤️

Today, we unanimously voted to:
🪧 recognize and respect the work of teachers and education professionals
🗳️ defend and respect collective bargaining & strongly condemn any attempt to undermine it.
⁠✊ stand in solidarity with teachers if they strike

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 4d

Provincial Council is underway in Red Deer! 🧡

Alberta’s New Democrats come together to connect, organize, and plan for the better future we all deserve.

We’re moments away from hearing Leader, @naheednenshi.bsky.social, on HOW WE WIN.

Members, you can join us online - check your inbox!

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 4d

Alberta's New Democrats got it done once, and we'll do it again. 👏

Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 4d

Danielle Smith's 'plan' for a pipeline is nothing but a pipe dream.

There's no route, no partner, no funding, and no consultation. Just another $14 million of taxpayer funds wasted on a project that does nothing and goes nowhere.

Alberta's New Democrats got it done once, and we'll do it again.

Danielle Smith's 'plan' for a pipeline is nothing but a pipe dream.

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 6d

It's official: Alberta now has the lowest minimum wage in the country. 🏅

The minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2018, and Danielle Smith has no plans to change this.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 7d

Things Danielle Smith will spend millions of public dollars on:
✅ Advertising war against teachers
✅ Distributing worksheets

Things Danielle Smith won't spend any public dollars on:
❌ Improving public education

Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 7d

Worksheets aren't classrooms.

Danielle Smith will spend millions of public dollars on everything but offering teachers a fair deal.

youtube.com/shorts/lzFsB...

Worksheets aren't classrooms, Premier.

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

youtube.com

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 8d

Reminder:

Bruce McAllister doesn’t respect Albertans.

The Premier knows this and is paying him $825,000 to berate citizens in these so-called “town halls.”

We deserve better.

Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · Aug 15

Are you sure you’re listening? 🤨

Danielle Smith’s waste-of-taxpayer-money “Alberta Next” panels turned rowdy in Edmonton.

It’s clear they’re not interested in hearing from Albertans. The UCP just wants to continue to push their costly, destabilizing ideas on Alberta.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 8d

The news that Imperial Oil is closing its Calgary office and cutting jobs is a significant blow to Calgary's and Alberta's economies.

We need a Premier who keeps Alberta’s investment market competitive, instead of chasing separatism.
Read my full statement: www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/na...

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 8d

Today, and always, Alberta's New Democrats stand with you.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 8d

Alberta's students are worth so much more than the lowest per-student funding in the country.

Investing in education is the BEST thing we could do to build a better future for our province. We'll never stop fighting for that.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 13d

We’re shocked at the cruelty, but certainly not surprised…

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 13d

🚨BREAKING: Alberta’s New Democrats reveal the UCP plans to increase seniors' healthcare costs

📹WATCH LIVE youtube.com/live/IX0SKyh...

Smith Betrays Alberta Seniors

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

youtube.com

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 13d

The lack of accountability is the point.

It’s easier to pretend you aren’t failing students, teachers, and parents if you stopped collecting evidence showing you’re doing exactly that.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 13d

"Although the province stopped tracking class sizes in 2019, educators say anecdotally their classrooms are becoming increasingly jammed."

Honestly wild Alberta stopped tracking this data and we now have to rely on anecdotal evidence when it comes to a key issue holding up a new teachers contract.

Alberta teachers and their employers have reached a tentative agreement | CBC News

Alberta teachers and their employers have reached a tentative agreement that could avert a strike in the province's schools, according to a statement from Finance Minister Nate Horner.

www.cbc.ca

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 16d

WATCH LIVE: Naheed Nenshi, Leader of Alberta’s New Democrats, calls on the UCP to raise the minimum wage and protect Albertans’ paycheques - youtube.com/live/QrE1lNz...

Protecting Your Paycheque

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

youtube.com

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 17d

Surely... yet... the UCP has made their choice.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 17d

Danielle Smith and the UCP are launching a massive, expensive ad campaign to avoid funding classrooms and pay teachers instead of just... funding classrooms and paying teachers.

Make it make sense.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 18d

For the first time in Alberta history, Danielle Smith will use the notwithstanding clause preemptively to shield her bills targeting vulnerable trans children from legal scrutiny.

Her actions are simply cruel and wrong.

Read my full statement below:

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 18d

Danielle Smith often calls herself the most 'freedom-loving' politician in Canada, yet she's repeatedly infringed on your fundamental human rights.

Her actions are simply cruel, wrong, and politically motivated.

youtu.be/QSt_msI0ayo

Danielle Smith is stripping away your fundamental human rights.

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 18d

Overcrowded classrooms.
Erosion of public health.
Record unemployment.

That's the 'Alberta Advantage' under Danielle Smith.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 20d

We once had the best public education in the world, a reliable healthcare system, and a thriving economy.

But under the UCP, we've all but lost our advantage.

It doesn't have to be this way.

With Alberta's New Democrats, better is possible.

youtube.com/shorts/KGrLP...

Together, we can bring back the Alberta Advantage. Better is possible.

YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 19d

Wild idea:

Every cent spent advertising against teachers could be spent on fixing our overcrowded classrooms instead!

rdnewsnow.com/2025/09/18/n...

Negotiations between province and ATA set to become advertising war

A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its teachers is set to turn into an advertising war.Financ...

rdnewsnow.com

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 21d

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Grab your TSIRBB tote here: shop.albertandp.ca

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 21d

54 kids in gym class? Danielle Smith's failures in public education have crowded our classrooms beyond anything reasonable.

Our kids deserve better.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Looming teachers' strike puts spotlight on Alberta's crowded classrooms | CBC News

As the clock ticks toward a potential provincewide strike by Alberta's teachers, parents say classroom overcrowding is having a disastrous domino effect on learning with tutors being hired to fill in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Court Ellingson @courtellingson.bsky.social · 21d

The Alberta New Democrat Caucus is hosting #Economic Consultations to hear from #business stakeholders in #Alberta about how our province can grow our prosperity.

The discussions will include opportunities, challenges & potential policies to move us all forward.

#economy #jobs #abpoli #ableg #yyc

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 21d

A local landowner sparred with Marciano over not receiving the company’s lease payments on her land. Marciano said she needs to apply for reimbursement from the government.

“It’s still our tax dollars,” she said.

“That’s not good enough.”

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned

thenarwhal.ca

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 22d

This will cost jobs in the oil and gas industry. It will reduce industry research and innovation, the very things that we need to have in place if you want to keep the industry and exports viable in the the long term. The #UCP are so bad at future proofing Alberta. Couldn't be worse if they tried.

Nagwan Al-Guneid @nagwanyyc.bsky.social · 22d

The premier & her enviro minister will announce a plan to weaken AB’s Technology Innovation & Emission Reduction (TIER); industrial carbon pricing.

TIER is smart investment & climate policy. It has brought billions of dollars & created jobs.

The UCP is bringing the Trump playbook in AB #ableg

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