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March 2010

Beach Corner Road Intersection (March 25) (26 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Local residents are angry about changes that were made to the intersection of 16A and Beach Corner Road just west…

Residential Building Codes (March 25) (26 Mar): Mr. Taylor: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday the Minister of Municipal Affairs said that he’s not looking at applying building codes retroactively…

Community Grant Programs (March 25) (26 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The community facility enhancement program and community initiatives program continue to take six months or more…

Alberta Health Services Budget (March 25) (26 Mar): Dr. Taft: Mr. Speaker, for many months the Alberta Health Services superboard has claimed $650 million to $700 million in annual efficiency savings…

Funding for Human Services/Olympics Advertising Costs/Health Facilities Security Services (March 25) (26 Mar): Dr. Swann: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Today my questions are for the Premier. Does the Premier accept the fact that the oil and gas industry…

Farm Worker Exemption from Labour Legislation (March 24) (25 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Why do I feel that it feels like the last day of school in here?

Education Property Tax/Residential Addiction Treatment Funding (March 24) (25 Mar): Mr. MacDonald: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Page 68 of the fiscal plan for Budget 2010 states that the province of Alberta will collect in education property…

Funding for Advanced Education (March 24) (25 Mar): Dr. Taft: Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Advanced Education and Technology has been playing word games with information about this government’s funding…

Grizzly Bear Protection (March 24) (25 Mar): Mr. Hehr: Mr. Speaker, the Endangered Species Conservation Committee has now recommended for the second time that the grizzly bear be listed as a threatened…

Residential Building Codes (March 24) (25 Mar): Mr. Taylor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. During the 18 months, one and a half years, that this government knew sprinklers should be on balconies, in attics,…

Role of Auditor General/Pharmaceutical Benefit for Seniors/Economic Diversification (March 24) (25 Mar): Dr. Swann: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. We believe the Auditor General has done everything in his power to be effective and appropriate in his…

Puffball of the Week: Calgary International Airport Development (24 Mar): Ms Woo-Paw: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Given the proximity of the constituency of Calgary-Mackay to the International Airport in Calgary it is important…

Cancer Services/U of A Sustainable Development Campus (March 23) (24 Mar): Dr. Taft: Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Cancer diagnosis and treatment require a tightly co-ordinated team that includes pathology, radiology, surgery, pharmacy,…

Distracted Driving (March 23) (24 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Hundreds of other jurisdictions have distracted driving legislation, including seven provinces, 18 states, even China,…

Court Service Caseloads/Chronic Wasting Disease (March 23) (24 Mar): Mr. Hehr: Mr. Speaker, as I’m sure the Justice minister is aware, it is extremely rare to hear a sitting judge criticize the administration of justice,…

High-intensity Residential Fires (March 23) (24 Mar): Mr. Taylor: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. We have had at least four massive condo fires in Alberta in relatively new buildings in the last seven…

Teachers’ Unfunded Pension Liability (March 23) (24 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Mr. Speaker, in 2007 this government signed an agreement with the Alberta teachers. At the time the Premier wrote to ATA, “I pledge to…

Pharmaceutical Benefits for Seniors/Online Driver Licensing (March 23) (24 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Adding to the increasingly long list of government health mismanagement is the July 1 implementation of the new…

Patient Safety Report (March 22) (23 Mar): Dr. Taft: Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Alberta Health Services finally released the independent report into incidents at the Alberta Children’s hospital. …

Wood Buffalo Municipal Issues (March 22) (23 Mar): Mr. Taylor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last week while I was meeting with the mayor and councillors from the region of Wood Buffalo, I was surprised to…

Building Construction Review (March 22) (23 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government had an opportunity to introduce new standards for home and condo construction, but instead they chose…

Checkstop Program (March 22) (23 Mar): Mr. Hehr: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Random roadside sobriety testing in Australia and New Zealand has been very successful in curbing drinking and driving…

Education Achievement Training (March 22) (23 Mar): Mr. Chase: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once again the Minister of Education has catered, cratered to the competitive ideology of the Fraser Institute by…

Special-needs Assistance for Seniors (March 22) (23 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A man was prescribed meal supplements when he was being treated for cancer, and his family was told that the cost…

Water Management and Allocation/MLA Remuneration (March 22) (23 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is World Water Week.

Cancer Services/High-intensity Residential Fires (March 22) (23 Mar): Dr. Swann: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the most heart-wrenching moments a person can face in life is when they’re told: you have cancer. …

Energy-efficient Personal Transportation (March 18) (19 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government’s approach to energy efficient vehicles such as Segway is out of date.

Lethbridge Health Facilities Security Services (March 18) (19 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Alberta Health Services is ending the long-term security contract they had with the Corps of Commissionaires in…

MLA Remuneration/School Utilization Formula (March 18) (19 Mar): Mr. MacDonald: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The order in council on April 30, 2008, setting out the pay for Conservative MLAs to sit on internal cabinet…

Postsecondary Tuition Fees/Budget Debate Process (March 18) (19 Mar): Mr. Chase: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Education equals economy.

Electoral Boundaries/PDD Funding/AISH (March 18) (19 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In September a backbencher stated publicly that Executive Council had determined that there would be two seats…

Education Property Taxes (March 17) (18 Mar): Mr. MacDonald: Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, $316 million in education property taxes was collected in the city of Edmonton in 2009.

Anticrime Initiatives (March 17) (18 Mar): Mr. Hehr: Well, Mr. Speaker, Fort McMurray has struggled to eradicate crime and the social turmoil that resulted from Alberta’s last resource boom. …

Distracted Driving (March 17) (18 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One in four accidents in Alberta is a result of distracted driving.

Noise Abatement/Royal Alberta Museum (March 17) (18 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. For those of us who live in the centre of our cities or by major roadways, spring heralds the new season…

Renter Assistance/Municipal Sustainability Initiative Funding (March 17) (18 Mar): Mr. Taylor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last year the direct-to-tenant rent supplement program started in April, and by August the program’s funding had…

Funding for Long-term Care/Centralized Ambulance Dispatch (March 17) (18 Mar): Dr. Swann: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government has demonstrated repeated failures of management of the public purse: major reorganization in the…

Puffball of the Week: Health Care ID Cards, from Naresh Bhardwaj (17 Mar): Mr. Bhardwaj: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The health care cards in other provinces such as Ontario have pictures of the cardholders, much like…

Farm Worker Exemptions from Labour Legislation (March 16) (17 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister of Employment and Immigration stated that his number one priority is that every Albertan leaves home…

Construction and Manufacturing Outsourcing (March 16) (17 Mar): Mr. MacDonald: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Two hundred very large production modules for Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands project will be built in South…

Kainai Community Correctional Centre (March 16) (17 Mar): Mr. Hehr: Mr. Speaker, the Kainai community corrections facility, the only correctional facility in the province established for aboriginal inmates,…

Environmental Impact Assessments (March 16) (17 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The government has created a catch-22 in the competitiveness review.

Postsecondary Tuition Fees (March 16) (17 Mar): Mr. Chase: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government’s failure to properly fund the postsecondary system is causing institutions to look at charging…

Erotic Massage Parlours (March 16) (17 Mar): Dr. Taft: Thanks, Mr. Speaker. The time has come for Alberta to take a strong stand in the battle against sexual exploitation.

Long-term Care in Grande Prairie/Centralized Cytology Lab Services (March 16) (17 Mar): Dr. Swann: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last Thursday I asked the Minister of Seniors and Community Supports why the long-term care centre promised to Grande…

Funding for Private Schools/School Closures (March 15) (16 Mar): Mr. Chase: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Unlike their public school counterparts, private schools and religious charter schools exclude students by charging…

Swan Hills Treatment Centre (March 15) (16 Mar): Mr. Kang: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last week I asked the Minister of Infrastructure when the review of the Swan Hills treatment plant will be released. …

Activity-based Funding Model for Hospital Care (March 15) (16 Mar): Dr. Taft: Well, thanks, Mr. Speaker. Activity-based funding is a new funding model that Alberta Health Services is going to implement across the province. …

Farm Worker Safety (March 15) (16 Mar): Ms Pastoor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the last reported year there were 23 farm-related deaths and 757 injuries that required ER visits.

Environmental Monitoring and Reporting (March 15) (16 Mar): Ms Blakeman: Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker. I don’t believe that Alberta currently has a perfect balance between oil and gas development and environmental…

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