Alberta This Week (Your Voice For Choice)
March 7 - March 13, 2026
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There is a lot going on in Alberta: Let’s get started…
If you are new to us or want to check on how the health system is doing, links to other News, Legislature links, videos, etc., will be available after the news.
Some Actions you can take:
Please read these carefully to ensure you agree with them before signing.
Require Majority Canadian media ownership.
pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership and control of print, digital, and other non-audio-visual news media, to protect Canadian sovereignty, ensure journalism integrity, and guarantee that our media reflects Canadian priorities and values.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6821
Send Peter Hoekstra packing.
As a proud Canadian, I am deeply troubled by the continued presence of Pete Hoekstra as the US ambassador to our great country. This is more than just a diplomatic position—it’s a role that requires respect, tact, and an understanding of our shared history and values. Unfortunately, Ambassador Hoekstra has demonstrated none of these qualities.
Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada.
Stop Two-Tier Healthcare: Prime Minister Mark Carney Must ACT Now
Universal Healthcare petition on a universal healthcare solution:
“Please sign this petition, copy and post to other social media platforms
https://win.newmode.net/mythery/saveouruniversalhealthcare
Write the Federal Health Minister re: Bill 11
Alberta has passed Bill 11: The Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2), legislation that allows doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics for medically necessary procedures while also working in the public system.
This American-style approach opens our health care to private insurance corporations, creating preferential access for the wealthy few who can pay while increasing wait times for everyone else. If Alberta’s law stands, other provinces may follow, undermining our entire health care system nationwide.
We’re asking Canadians across the country to contact Health Minister Marjorie Michel and their MP, urging them to enforce the Canada Health Act, which guarantees medically necessary care based on need, not ability to pay.
https://win.newmode.net/stopalbertastwotierhealthcarelaw?
Friends of Medicare have several actions you can take.
Protect the CPP for seniors in Canada. Closes March 9, 2026
Tell the federal government to take steps to protect the CPP in light of the Alberta government’s actions.
House of Commons e-6990 Protecting CPC
Gender affirming care is a form of life-saving and evidence-based healthcare.
The Government of Alberta has limited who can have reasonable access to healthcare through Bill 26.
The Canada Health Act states that “eligible residents of Canada must have reasonable access to required health services. The services are to be provided on the same terms and without patient charges.
e-7005 (Health) petition is over on March 20, 2026
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7005
Security Clearances
All Federal, Provincial, and Territorial office holders should have a security clearance.
Authored by Bruce Fanjoy - expires April 7, 2026
We, the undersigned, citizens, call upon the House of Commons to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7148
Getting ICE out of Canada.
Heather MacPherson - Expires June 6, 2026
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7146
Stop the Contract: No Canadian Weapons to ICE
Canada stands up for Cuba.
With the US sanctions on Cuba and the blockage of fuel from reaching the islands, Canadians have the opportunity to sign a petition supporting Cuba’s access to fuel.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7082
Keep the RCMP
We’re relaunching #FactCheckFriday to give Albertans real facts on public safety. Govt panels and polling show most Albertans oppose replacing the RCMP. Stop the push for a duplicate police service.
Send a letter: keepalbertarcmp.ca/get-involved/
The Jay Treaty
The colonial border between the US and Canada dissects Indigenous territories in ways that sever the lifelines between First Nations families, communities, languages, and ceremonies.
Every year, thousands of U.S.-born First Nations people who are Indigenous to Canada are denied the ability to live and work in Canada because the government refuses to recognize their ancestral rights to do so. With ICE now arresting First Nations and Indigenous people in the U.S. and looking at deporting them, this treaty will give them safe haven in Canada with their communities.
Indigenous
Indian Residential School denialism needs to be stopped. Please sign: expires July 2, 2026
Bill C-254, introduced by MP Leah Gazan in the House of Commons on October 31, 2025, would amend the Criminal Code to create an offence of wilfully promoting hatred against Indigenous peoples by condoning, denying, downplaying, or justifying the Indian Residential School system in public statements.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7191
Sign up to be a canvasser for the Water Not Coal campaign.
https://www.waternotcoal.ca/
Let PM Carney know how you feel about Canada supporting Trump and Netanyahu in their choice to go to war. The link is below
Please send a pre-crafted (you can change the wording) letter to PM Carney to not publicly state considerations about supporting Trump and Netanyahu in their illegal war of choice.
Timberwolf & the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes filed a judicial review application with the Federal Court of Canada in Dec 2025, Re: DFO’s approval of West Fraser’s 1100 hectares of clear-cut logging in the Highwood headwaters 😤.
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Donate to Help Protect Bull Trout Habitat in the Upper Highwood River, organized by Mike Sawyer
It’s been a week! Let’s get started!
The links are in alphabetical order by day, so you can check out the areas you are interested in.
Saturday, March 7,
Education:
Students are circulating a petition to cancel diplomas this year.
Employment:
Alberta College reinvents career fair for the new reality of AI job hunting.
Energy and Minerals:
Fort McMurray leaders are frustrated with the postponement of CNRL expansion.
Executive Council:
Editorial: Premier pointing the finger at newcomers. Danielle Smith blames Trudeau-era immigration policies for flooding Alberta classrooms, emergency rooms, and social support systems.
Federal:
Gap narrows in Alberta as federal Conservatives shed some support to Liberals: poll
Healthcare:
AC: Opinion: Who is being protected? Rethinking Alberta’s MAID announcement
PC: Health experts say dual practice will backfire, Smith says ‘they’re wrong.’
PC: Mumps infections reveal that vaccine-preventable illnesses are resurging in the U.S.
PC: Measles is ‘worse than expected’ in Utah, officials say. Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation.
PC: Disrupted iron levels after SARS CoV2 infections may trigger long COVID/
International:
As Carney seeks strengthened global alliances, is it time Canada joins the European Union?
As Carney seeks strengthened global alliances, is it time Canada join the EU? | CBC News
Trump quietly invested Millions in Bank Securities, Late Ethics Filing Shows
An expert warns that Canada’s involvement in the Middle East conflict could have global ramifications.
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Trade:
Things are growing again at this former Alberta cannabis facility. Fresh produce and mushrooms.
Justice
The Alberta Premier’s referendum is a direct threat to the proper functioning of our justice system
Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction:
Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years, stat can.
Social Services and Assisted Living:
Advocates push back on Danielle Smith’s comment that people are moving to Alberta for social programs
Alberta women’s shelters advance work on violence-informed assessment tools.
Sunday, March 8,
Affordability and Utilities:
Alberta and the U.S. have been arguing over electricity, but a win-win may be in sight.
Damaging winds leave some Albertans without power.
Arts, Culture and the Status of Women:
Minister of Arts, Culture, and Status of Women Tanya Fir issued the following statement on International Women’s Day
Community:
Clint’s Kitchen fights food insecurity while building community in central Alberta.
The majority of Americans see fellow citizens as morally bad, but Canadians see the opposite.
Education:
Alberta school division adopts new technology to help students’ families access school information.
By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order. Graphic novels, poetry, memoirs, art books, and retellings of classics and the Trojan War were removed.
Federal:
Carney calls byelections in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne and two Toronto ridings.
Canada commits nearly $1B to drone and airborne defense research.
Healthcare:
A newly formed Canadian pharmaceutical company is seeking to enter the market with a generic version of one of the world’s best-known prescription drugs: Ozempic.
International:
U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year.
The Kansas City airport was evacuated because of a bomb threat.
Dr. Marci Shore, an intellectual historian formerly of Yale University, is now the Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Ukrainian Night, Caviar and Ashes, and Taste of Ashes, and a frequent contributor to Bette Dangerous and RadPod. Here is a print version of our interview, lightly edited for brevity and clarity.–hsc
Trump and his team have bashed European leaders for a year; now, he wants support?
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Jobs:
Critics say Ottawa’s sustainable jobs plan offers no new support for energy workers.
Cocoa beans rot, and West African farmers seek other options after commodity crash
Municipalities:
Alberta mountain towns deal with ‘low-grade anxiety’ as wildfire season begins.
Monday, March 9,
Affordability and Utilities:
Volatile oil prices spark calls for Alberta to suspend fuel tax again.
Next week Edmonton City Council will look at restrictive covenants for grocery stores.
Agriculture:
Not just oil: Fertilizer prices spike amid Iran war, worrying Canadian farmers.
Arts, Culture and the Status of Women:
Calgary artists call out the Calgary Public Library residency program that is calling for the use of AI in artwork.
Education:
High winds blow the roof off the school in Swan Hills, wreaking havoc across Alberta.
Budget 2026 funds 10 new school projects in Edmonton, bringing the total number of public school projects underway in the city to 37.
Energy and Minerals:
Oil prices dip during a manic day for markets amid the US - Israel war with Iran.
Environment and Protected Areas:
Global Warming Is Accelerating, Study Shows.
Federal:
6 World Leaders Threatened in China-Linked Campaign Against Shen Yun. A death threat against the Australian prime minister is the latest in a string of Chinese emails threatening leaders of Taiwan, Canada, Italy, Denmark, and South Korea.
How are MPs passing so many bills without voting?
According to the latest ranking, Canada has jumped up one spot and is now among the seventh most powerful passports in the world, a position it shares with six other countries: Australia, Czechia, Latvia, New Zealand, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Canadians also now have visa-free access to 182 countries, up from 181 in January, when it ranked number eight alongside Iceland and Lithuania.
Canada commits nearly $1B to drone and airborne defence research. Government says research aims to benefit both military and civilian operations.
Healthcare:
PC: Challenging your brain helps keep it healthy. Here’s how to do it.
PC: Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease, years after he had it as a baby. (Article is from the US)
PC: Healthcare is a right. The federal government cannot let privatization erode access.
PC: The government expanded who can provide primary care, but must now define which services Canadians are entitled to.
PC: Tomorrow’s AI models are learning from today’s polluted research.
Indigenous:
Indigenous Chiefs gather at legislature, pressure Alberta to quash separatism push.
A delegation of chiefs from Treaty 6 is on its way to the United Kingdom for a private audience with the monarch this week.
International:
A world at war: Iran conflict goes global.
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Trade:
Alberta separation talk already affecting more than a quarter of surveyed Calgary businesses. Calgary Chamber of Commerce head says organization’s inbox inundated with concern
Study links working while sick to higher risk of future absence
Justice:
Alberta Court of Appeal upholds four-month jail term for organizer of Coutts blockade
Coutts border protester Marco Van Huigenbos’ sentence was upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal.
Municipal:
Councilor pushing for more grocery stores to help lower food costs.
City council looking to evaluate restrictive covenants for grocery stores next week
Calgary returns yet again to water restrictions amid work to fix the ailing pipe system.
Edmonton’s single-use waste rules unpopular — but working
Police/Sheriffs:
49 high-profile fugitives arrested across Alberta during multi-agency sweep.
Victim shot with pellet gun along 17 Avenue: Calgary police.
A warrant round-up led by the Alberta Sheriffs has resulted in the arrests of several dangerous fugitives in central Alberta.
Separation:
Alberta separation talk already affecting more than a quarter of surveyed Calgary businesses.
Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site
Social Media:
TikTok allowed to keep business in Canada under new rules. The social media platform has agreed to enhanced data protection measures.
Social Services and Assisted Living:
Alberta’s government continues to make progress on the Alberta Disability Assistance Program, thoughtfully designing the program based on feedback from Albertans.
Technology and Innovation:
Promising breakthrough creates plastics that self-deconstruct on cue: Study
Transportation:
Landmark lift: Red Deer’s historic CPR bridge was moved for a $22.3 million restoration project.
Tuesday, March 10,
Arts, Culture and the Status of Women:
Alberta eliminates funding for 119 year old historical society. A volunteer historical society that’s almost as old as Alberta itself is concerned that the province’s past may be forgotten after its funding was eliminated.
Education:
Strike aftermath leaves many Alberta teachers isolated, looking for new work. CBC News teacher questionnaire garners more than 6,000 responses.
Finance:
Alberta’s government has introduced legislation to authorize components of Budget 2026.
Healthcare:
AC: Canadians are dying preventable deaths in this country’s choked ERs, doctors warn.
PC: Young Innovators: U of S student uncovers hidden risk in cleaning products.
The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence
Indigenous:
Chief’s non-confidence vote ‘somewhat’ unfair: Alta. minister.
International:
Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year.
Enbridge, BMO, and TC Energy’s U.S. wings directed donations to election deniers.
16 Canadian-headquartered companies supported politicians who voted not to certify the 2020 election through corporate PACs.
Canada restricts drug boat intel from the U.S. Navy’s Caribbean airstrike operation. DND says country placed ‘caveat’ on U.S. intelligence-sharing for small-boat strike
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Trade:
Could rising gas prices make 2026 the year of the EV?
Justice:
This moves towards tyranny’: Justice system groups protest UCP attacks on judges, use of notwithstanding clause
Municipal:
Edmonton’s ban on disposable items has reduced use of plastic bags and straws: City data.
Public and Emergency Services:
Repairs are underway in parts of Alberta after powerful winds battered roofs, caused a school to close, and led to semi-truck rollovers.
Wednesday, March 11,
Orders Approved - March 11, 2026
Justice Minister appoints judges to the Alberta Court of Justice:
Kristin Lara-Lauren Fahlman
Boyd Ernest Langford
Travis Troy Cunningham
Elizabeth Marie Iredale
Denis Lefebvre
Jayne Marilee Janzen
Tourism and Sports Minister proclaims Section 1 of the Red Tape Statues Amendment Act to do with recreation areas.
Finance Minister appoints and designates Vice Chair Deanna Stebyk to the Securities Commission.
Environment and Protected Areas Minister proclaims the Water Amendment Act - using water for AI and Data centers is one part.
Energy and Minerals Minister appoints David Yager (has received 3 sole source contracts from the UCP govt. - to the BOD of the AER and Michael WEbb to hearing commissioner of the AER,
Minister of Forestry and Wildlife make the Timber Management Amendment Regulation.
Minister Advanced Education appoints Kyle Braithwaite BOG Norquest College.
Minister of Affordability and Utilities makes the Rebate Authorization Amendment Regulation for Heating OIl and Propane.
Premier appoints Arno Doerksen as a member of the Council of Alberta Order of Excellence.
Minister of Municipal Affairs reappoints Douglas Nobel, Brad Slorstad and Kevin Wilson members of the Special Areas Board.
Minister of Addiction and Mental Health makes the Mental Health Patient Advocate (extends expiry date) Amendment Regulation. So now they can lock you up for your own good.
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Affordability and Utilities:
Gas prices in Canada soar as U.S.-Israel war with Iran spreads
Another Alberta school division joins the trend of covering the busing deficit with fees. Wild Rose School Division set to implement bus fees, cites $1M shortfall
Children and Family Services:
Alberta’s Family Violence Death Review Committee is quietly dissolved after an internal review. CFS Ministry found continued operation could be an inefficient use of resources, citing overlap.
Ottawa Valley parent warns of lethal Benadryl TikTok challenge after teen hospitalized.
Education and Childcare:
Daycare abuse notifications must improve: Alberta NDP.
Alberta spends about $600M on education for children of temporary residents as immigration referendum looms.
Energy:
Information on Energy and on Kevin O’Leary’s application for the Wondervalley AI Data center.
Alberta’s oil and gas industry should be held to a fair methane standard
Environment and Protected Areas:
Alberta’s government is improving how water can be accessed and shared, helping farmers, ranchers, businesses, and communities make the most of this vital resource.
Executive Council:
Why Danielle Smith’s Populist Referendums Are Dangerous to Democracy.
Danielle Smith is making an about-face. Can we be fooled again? I hope not.
Federal:
Federal prisons to lose library technicians, employment coordinators in budget cuts
Critic calls move ‘the hollowing out of a core rehabilitative service.
Tolls on the new Gordie Howe bridge will be considerably less than the Ambassador bridge.
NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals, bringing Carney closer to majority. Nunavut MP’s move brings Liberals to 170 seats ahead of 3 byelections.
Conservation groups worry Carney’s new nature strategy won’t come with funding
Liberals contemplating market-based solutions to halt biodiversity loss: sources, which means it won’t come with funding.
Finance:
Budget 2026 is investing in provincial parks and public land infrastructure to make outdoor recreation safer, easier, and more enjoyable.
Healthcare:
PC: Medical wait times costing Canadians billions in lost wages, productivity
Medical wait times costing Canadians billions in lost wages, productivity - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
PC: Taurine supplementation as a therapeutic strategy for cellular senescence and chronic inflammation in long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis
PC: Alberta hit with yet another measles upswing, triggering new calls for action
3 dozen cases reported over the weekend alone, but province says uptick ‘not unexpected.’
PC: Alberta won’t budge on charging Indigenous people for COVID vaccines.
AC: Edmonton team allows Alberta lung patient to receive care closer to home
AC: Edmonton physicians warn province of immediate, unavoidable surgery disruptions over changes to compensation.
Alberta in a hospital crisis doubles down and stops stipends to create a more dire situation.
Information on AMA support for physicians on stipend programs.
Information from committees and working groups on stipend ARP resolution working group.
MH&A: Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety
The Alberta government’s Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers a case study of how conflicts of interest and privacy oversight are at a crisis point in Alberta.
MH&A Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Rick Wilson issued the following statement on peer-reviewed research studying the Red Deer Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) closure:
Indigenous:
Treaty 6 chiefs raise Alberta separation concerns with King Charles
King Charles ‘expressed his concern’ over Alberta separatism in meeting: grand chief
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Trade:
A young man from South Korea, came to Canada to learn about becoming a cowboy. It’s a learning experience for the ranchers who took him in as well.
A daily update on immigration issues in Canada.
Justice:
Alberta Court of Justice appointments will increase court capacity and support public safety across the province.
Municipalities:
Following the recent announcement of the proposed 2026 Alberta Provincial Budget, Lethbridge residents may be wondering what changes within it may impact their local property taxes this year.
Recalls:
Danielle Smith’s recall comes up short.
Citizen-led recall bid against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fails
Citizen-led recall bid against Alberta premier falls far short of threshold | CBC News
Nearly all petition campaigns reported harassment: Elections Alberta.
Separatists:
Braid: How separatism gets on the referendum while pro-Canada question misses out
Social Services and Assisted Living:
Boyle Street housing program loses funding.
Transportation:
Edmonton bike group raises concern over shared use path during LRT line construction on 102 Ave
Thursday, March 12,
Advanced Education:
A new program funded by the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership will encourage veterinary students to work and stay in rural Alberta.
Affordability and Utilities:
Enmax open to mayor’s call for it to run Calgary’s water system. But utility resistant to Farkas’s idea it sell the U.S. power company it owns
CRTC to eliminate fees when cancelling or switching cellphone and internet plans. Move will make it easier for consumers to switch internet and cellphone plans, regulator says.
Telus probes cybersecurity incident that ‘Shiny Hunters’ group claims responsibility for.
Education and Child Care:
30 facts about childhood today. Why schools are struggling.
Budget 2026, if passed, invests $90 million to help ease enrolment pressures by creating 6,000 new student spaces at independent schools.
Translating, restraining kids, teaching multiple grades at once: Alberta teachers describe complex classrooms. More than 4,000 teachers shared their experiences with CBC New.
Energy and Minerals:
Landowner blockades access to wellsite after three years of alleged unpaid bills
Alberta landowners take stand over years of missed payments by delinquent oil company
Varcoe: ‘We haven’t seen anything yet’ — Volatile oil markets, escalating conflict, meet Alberta’s royalty roller-coaster
Environment and Protected Areas:
WorldAtlas.com has released its list of “The 10 Driest Cities in Canada”, half of which are in Alberta. Included are Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton.
Executive Council:
Alberta Politics: UCP Leads in Voting Intentions as 60% Say Province Is on Wrong Track, Leger Poll Finds
In 2024-25, Alberta government ministries spent $4.41 million on travel and hospitality, a 28 per cent increase over the $3.45 million expensed in 2023-24.
For pennies on the dollar, lobbyists give the UCP political donations, and in return, they get???
Federal:
Carney announces $35B for defence, infrastructure in Canada’s North. Funding includes building military hubs and roads, improving northern airports.
Carney to meet with King Charles while in United Kingdom next week. Prime minister set to arrive in London after visiting Norway.
CCLA at the Senate Committee to Sound the Alarm about Bill C-15’s Anti-Democratic Exemption Powers.
The International Humanitarian Society has had its charitable status revoked as its resources were used to pay for a pastor’s personal expenses.
Healthcare:
AC: Alberta hospitals must admit patients to prevent ER backlogs, says review into Edmonton man’s death. Acute Care Alberta recommends putting triage liaison doctors in ERs.
PC: Start screening for colorectal cancers earlier, Canadian Cancer Society urges. Current cancer screening guidelines don’t catch the disease in people under 50, advocates say.
PC: Action Needed on For-Profit Plasma Centres After Deaths, Non-Compliant Inspections.
PC: Suspended doctor who worked in both Saskatchewan and Alberta faces 28 new sex-crime charges, including sexual touching of minors.
PC: Evidence of severe COVID and Flu can prime the lungs for lung cancer.
International:
Canada’s Conservative leader needs to make inroads with Trump. Is it too late?
Why Pierre Poilievre has few friends in and around the White House.
Silence from Ottawa ‘shameful’ after report of Canadian camp hit by missile: Conservative MP. Camp at Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait appeared to be damaged on March 1: report
China owns Canada’s only antimony (mineral needed for military weapons) mine. Shuttered it in 2023.
The Israeli government secretly hired a Toronto law firm in an effort to stop the Canadian government from accurately labeling wines from Israel’s illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank, documents reveal.
Municipalities:
Canmore residents raise concerns about potential hotel, Nordic spa
‘We are a tourism community. Tourism is where our economic growth will happen,’ says developer.
Canmore’s vacancy tax gets appeal court’s approval. The vacancy tax is the first of its kind in Alberta.
Police/Sheriffs:
New tools for law enforcement to investigate threats and keep Canadians safe Federal Bill C-22
Edmonton police chief faces backlash for ‘educational’ meeting with Israeli police. Warren Driechel was part of counterterrorism delegation in February.
Recalls:
Recall petitions launched against Alberta MLAs Peter Guthrie and Marie Renaud. Majority of citizen-led bids launched last year have failed.
Social Services and Assisted Living:
Social services shadow minister says UCP has wanted to make changes to AISH for years.
Alberta’s government is committing more than $200 million to build and upgrade seniors housing across the province.
20% of Canadians over 50 living at poverty level.
Technology and Innovation:
Titan Technology Corp. (CSE: TTC) (“Titan” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has submitted a comprehensive proposal in response to Alberta Innovates’ Request for Proposal MW0202 (AB‑2026‑00962) (the “RFP”), a competitive process to establish a pre‑
qualified roster of vendors for artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation services.
Transportation:
Speeding and other traffic fines rise on Friday across Alberta.
Drivers may experience delays as a large, slow-moving load will move between Tofield and Fort Saskatchewan on March 13.
Friday, March 13,
Education and Child Care:
Restorative Justice Didn’t Deliver. Why? Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever.
Alberta teachers fail to get court injunction on Bill 2
Starting Friday, not buckling up or failing to secure kids in the car could come with a bigger fine in Alberta.
Alberta Teachers and Nurses Burnout: Burnout is becoming more of a problem for Alberta teachers and Nurses compounded by chronic stress, staffing shortages and growing classroom sizes
Why are teachers quitting?
Energy:
Amid an energy crisis, the world is drawing on its oil reserves. Why doesn’t Canada have any?
Gift Article, Internal emails highlight Alberta Energy Regulator leadership concerns on coal files.
The Alberta Government is doubling down with taxpayers’ dollars.
We Would Be Entering a Completely Different World.’ What happens if oil hits $200 a barrel?
Canada is supplying 23.6 million barrels of oil under the IEA release plan.
Environment and Protected Areas:
Will Canada meet its goal to protect 30% of land and waters by 2030?
Canada must protect 1.7 million sq. kms, the size of Alaska, to meet 2030 conservation goals. Manitoba is eyeing Indigenous-led plans to get there
Federal:
Poilievre to focus on trade and auto sector as he launches U.S. trip in Detroit. Struggling at home, trying to look like Prime Ministerial material.
Healthcare:
AC: The Alberta agency in charge of hospitals has released a review making 16 recommendations to the government in the wake of the death of a man who waited for hours for care in an Edmonton hospital.
AC: Canada’s hospital emergency rooms have hit a breaking point. Is it the new normal?
PC: Individuals who were in this location during the specified date and time may have been exposed to measles
PC: Long COVID occurs in 1 in 9 adults. It’s as prevalent as diabetes, but not as recognized.
We get vaccinated to protect our community.
International:
U.S. moves to exempt Russian oil from sanctions for 30 days.
Nanos survey says border crossing no longer ‘on the radar’ for many Canadians
Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz. They should not have fired all the top brass.
Canadian potatoes may soon be heading to Mexico.
The Trump administration expands trade investigations to Canada and another dozen countries.
I was there when Trump almost got us into a nuclear war. We’re worse off now. Here’s why. Few Americans realize how close the president took us to the brink of nuclear war in his first term before aides talked him down. Today, there’s no one prepared to stop him.
Carney, Norway PM push message on oil market stability as war in the Middle East rattles global supply.
Jobs, Economy, Immigration, and Trade:
Canada’s economy lost 84,000 jobs in February. Unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%.
Ottawa to allow rural employers to increase the proportion of temporary foreign workers.
Canada’s economy lost 84,000 jobs in February, the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Carney says Canada’s job creation is still way ahead of the U.S. despite losing 84,000 jobs last month.
Municipal:
Edmonton pothole repairs and snow clearing fall short of city targets.
Alberta’s government is launching a formal inspection of the City of Calgary’s management, administration, and operations of the Bearspaw South Feeder Main.
Boil water advisory issued for 500 southwest Calgary homes and businesses
City says the issue is not related to the Bearspaw south feeder main
Recalls and Initiatives:
More harassment in recall, citizen initiative campaigns being reported: Elections Alberta.
More harassment in recall, citizen initiative campaigns being reported: Elections Alberta | CBC News
Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction:
Canada wine ban wipes $357 million from US exports.
Tourism and Sport:
A Memorandum of Understanding with the Jays Care Foundation will soon unlock a new way that Albertans can help youth discover their passion for baseball.
Parks Canada is banning paddling at some popular Banff National Park lakes. Restrictions come after Parks Canada confirmed whirling disease in Lake Louise for the first time
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EXTRAS: This is where you will find all of our information that appeared first in our previous newsletters. New video and article links that we have found, etc.
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WE have heard there is some confusion about our purpose. We are here to help Albertans recall their MLAs if they are not acting in your best interests. Here is a slide show that outlines how recalls work. ABResistance.ca Recalls As part of our process, we started sharing information through our newsletters and research articles, as well as building community.
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Upcoming Events: See our ABR Resistor for Updates about upcoming events:
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Links for Health Information:
Measles Tracker - We now have the highest number of Measles Cases in the world, and to think it was almost eradicated 50 years ago. Thanks in part to Alberta, Canada has lost its Measles Eradication Status.
https://www.alberta.ca/measles. They have reset the bar for tracking cases. In 2025, there were 2008 cases, and so far in 2026, we have had 174 cases. We had 123 as of last week; we are up 51 cases. Eight cases are still active.
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Drug stores are administering COVID vaccines for an Alberta government administrative fee of $100 + a dispensing fee.
Here is a map you can check for availability.
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Respiratory Dashboard - Here is a link to Alberta’s respiratory virus dashboard - including RSV, Flu, and COVID-19 cases. (Last updated December 6, 2025) 1 flu and 2 COVID, and 0 RSV patients in the ICU.
COVID-19, RSV, and Flu wastewater testing: Check out the major population areas in Alberta here:
Canada COVID Tracker:
COVID-19 - Moderate
Flu A - Low
Flu B and RSV - High.
If you live in the country, you may want to check this out if you need to go to an Emergency Room. Alberta AHS Facilities Temporary Service Disruption website
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UCP Travels:
Constituency week is over, the next big travel week, according to our predictions are for the week of April 6th. Altogether, UCP MLAs and their accompanying staff members have been gone from Canada for 68 days and 13 trips in 2026.
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Here is a link to the 2026 calendar, Legislative Assembly of Alberta *Days in yellow are the days they were at the Legislature. They start on February 24, 2026, for their four-day work week. They are sitting for 9 weeks - 36 days this winter/spring session, as well as 3 constituency weeks. All of them are afternoon sittings from 1:30 to 6:00 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and 1:30 to 4:00 pm Thursday.
It will be interesting to see how much they have planned to push through in this session.
After forcing teachers back using the notwithstanding clause and saying they were paid well for their work, Alberta Members of the Legislative Assembly are paid $120,936 per year.
Cabinet ministers, the speaker, and the leader of the opposition are paid $181,404 per year. They are working 66 days; what do they do the other 299 days of the year? Oh, right, maybe they go on trips to other countries that taxpayers are paying for.
Here is a one-pager calendar so you can see all the 52 days they are sitting this year - they include 4 constituency weeks.
.Legislative Assembly of Alberta (one-page calendar)
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* There are 4 active Recalls against UCP MLAs. They will be done this month. This month recalls have been filed against Peter Guthrie - Airdrie Cochrane Alberta Tory and Marie Renaud - St. Albert NDP
The UCP Caucus has 46 members. There are 38 NDP MLAs, 1 Alberta Tory Party MLA, and 1 Independent MLA.
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If you want to support a party in Alberta, here are the links:
Alberta Progressive Tory Party Memberships: Membership - Alberta Party
NDP Memberships: Membership EN | Canada’s NDP
The UCP is having its annual general meeting in Edmonton this year.
UCP Memberships: Membership - United Conservative Party of Alberta
Liberal Party memberships: Membership - Alberta Liberal Party
Republican Party of Alberta: Membership; the Alberta Republican Party
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Is My MLA a Separatist:
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Miscellaneous facts and information for you:
Here is our list of money wasted up to
+ August 2025: HOW THE UCP IS COSTING ALBERTANS BILLIONS OF $$$.docx
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Some Articles, Videos, and Podcasts we found that you might be interested in.
You can find all the email addresses for the different MLAs from different provinces.
One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada
Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms
Now to building community! You are not alone.
Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years
COVID-19 (I have been including a lot of COVID information in the newsletters, because so many organizations are coming out with new info and you can only take steps if you know what is going on.
Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here’s what you can do
Disrupted iron levels after SARS-CoV-2 infection may trigger long COVID
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Bell’s Palsy and Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome: A Multicenter Retrospective Study
Information on the best N-95 RESPIRATORS. Measles, tuberculosis, flu, RSV and COVID are airborne. You can protect yourself by masking up.
Lancet study finds Covid-19 viral proteins in blood of 25% of people post-Covid up to 14 months later.
Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’
What’s happening in Alberta with the Mental Health and Addictions Ministry. How Albertans are being affected.
Alberta government under-reports ambulance dispatches to drug toxicity by as much as 89 percent.
Drug Jail Plans:
“We can help”: How Recovery Alberta facilitated consumption site closures (Part 1)
“Inaccurate data”: How Recovery Alberta officials facilitated consumption site closures (Pt 2)
Healthcare Under Siege
U.S. Healthcare comes to Canada, what to know and how to fight it. U.S. health insurance companies see Canada as ripe for the picking, they just need a foot in the door to start selling private health insurance and Alberta’s Bill 11 is giving them that opportunity. We need to fight back now!
Webinar: U.S. health care comes to Canada: What to know and how to fight it - CCPA
Videos
COVID for Doctors.
Part 1
Covid for Doctors - Dr Nancy Malek
Part 2
Covid for Doctors Part 2 - Dr Nancy Malek
Facism:
Energy/ Oil and Gas
Enerji Media: Mark Doran Alberta Landowner Blocks Oil Well Over Unpaid Lease Fees
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Other Alberta News you can check out:
Alberta Views puts out a weekly synopsis of happenings in Alberta: This week’s version. (The Week in Alberta archives)
The Tyee puts out a weekly round-up of happenings in Alberta - Check it out.
A round-up of this week’s Tyee Alberta stories. They are a non-profit; if you can afford to donate to this amazing news source,
Calgary’s The Sprawl - Slow News for curious Calgarians
Alberta Municipalities News
News from the Municipalities - has an update on bills being passed.
Alberta Conservative News
Alberta Government Links
The Government is making its news announcements user-friendly. Here is the non-government branded version.
Here is the government version.
Hansard - The Alberta Government
Hansard Transcription
Legislative Assembly
Here is the sunshine list document for Alberta.
Here are the MLA payouts for wages/expenses for 2024 - March 31, 2025
If you have events coming up in your area or have a group you would like to promote, email us at abresistance2027@gmail.com
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If you are new here, you may find this interesting.
A Message from ABR (Alberta Resistance)
Recalls: We still have 4 active approved UCP recalls, collecting signatures. OperationTotalRecall.ca has all the details on their page for you to check out who is recalled, what the recall websites are (to register as canvassers and to find out where to sign petitions). WE are doing it, Alberta - Together.
Which area that the Alberta government is working on concerns you the most?
Health Care (hospitals- being able to transfer hospitals to other organizations to run, siloing health care, health care staff, vaccine accessibility, paying private facilities to do public surgeries, etc.) They are now talking about allowing Doctors to have private/public practices where there is a pay-to-access service. It has not worked well in other countries, but Marlaina/Danielle wants to break public health care, so that’s where Alberta is heading. What about the Procurement Scandal? Do you think it’s appropriate for the government to give sole source contracts to certain organizations - like ROSC for mental health or MHCare for procurement? Acute Care Alberta - the hospitals are at Code Red. No one in government is willing to call the emergency. They are talking about adding doctors to triage in Emergency Waiting Rooms - that was 4 weeks ago, and we are still waiting. The UCP has put EMS on life support itself. The statistics are astounding. 33,000 overtime hours monthly. Ambulances are being downgraded. 40 EMS shifts are unstaffed daily. Ambulances were sent from different areas to cover shortages, leaving those areas in need. If you call an ambulance, you may not get one for hours. EMS Paramedics are not getting the support they need to do their jobs, to remain healthy and functioning for their families and communities. When they need support, the government is making sure it’s not there. As Albertans, we can do better. They are investing $7.7 billion in staffing doctors. They have also created a new corporation HSS to oversee the four different silos, so another layer of management that will have to be paid for. Hard to believe that AHS did the job of all five areas and did it well. Demand better from Danielle Smith’s government. There are some actions to ask the Federal government to stop Bill 11.
Education (building charter and providing funding to support building, funding charter and private schools while public schools are struggling, firing Support staff during COVID lockdowns and not hiring them all back, not funding complex classrooms, the funding formula, not negotiating with teachers). News Flash - Webber Academy Calgary received over $5 million last year, and they donated $3.8 million to West Aspen Holdings. Since 2018, they have donated $73 million to this entity. Webber Academy’s $70m Slush Fund - by the ATA rank and file, Nicolaides wants to build bridges with Alberta teachers - he is fighting the school boards about banned books, expecting testing of K-3 students, and is setting up studies to improve education without actually putting money into fixing it. The government saved $143 million from striking teachers; they are turning that around to hire 436 Complexity teams to go into schools. These teams will consist of one teacher and two educational assistances so 436 + 872 = 1308 educators. Some rural school districts are getting one team for up to 20+ schools because they are only available for K - 6 classrooms. They will be lucky if they get one day a month with the complexity team in place. This is a band-aid, made to make the government look good. It is not a plan, it is not a long-term solution. Look deeper than the headlines and talk to educators; they will let you know this is too little too late. Budget increasing education spending to $10.8 billion. The government just announced planning and building 16 new schools in rural Alberta. They are also going to put money into building private school campuses.
Energy: Oil and Gas (not capping abandoned wells, Mature Asset Strategy, Fracking, Pipelines. Taxpayers cover Oil and Gas companies’ taxes to municipalities and rent to farmers for their land with abandoned wells. Demanding pipelines. This week, they announced $28 million for 7 projects, one of which will implement their MAS strategy to try, and get more oil/gas out of wells in the Calgary area. CNRL postpones Jackpine expansion of the oilsands. Landowners have blocked oil companies coming onto their land because of unpaid leases, the only way they can come on is to shut down the wells.
Eco Justice films 3 landowners’ stories
Alberta landowners react to well cleanup crisis - Ecojustice
Environment - Coal mining in the Rockies, Water conservation, developing the Little Smoky area, hunting, Oil and Gas well shutdowns, pipelines, others? Corb Lund has filed a Citizen Initiative to stop coal mining in the Rockies. The Alberta Government just changed the Citizen Initiative Act to make it harder for people to file. The cost has gone up from $500 to $25,000. It came into force after the Separatists filed their Separation Citizen Initiative. Northback continues to advertise steel-making coal, not using water from streams, but it will still use water. The coal dust will deposit in waterways, contaminating them with selenium. Corb Lund’s petition is active. He has canvassers out collecting signatures across Alberta. They need canvassers to sign up!
AISH/ADAP - Clawing back $200 from the federal government’s Canadian Disability Benefit for people on AISH and ADAP. Charging those in subsidized housing more - $200/month. or that they are moving all AISH recipients to ADAP, which will lower their monthly payment, and allow them to claw back more money if they are working. Currently, AISH recipients can earn over $1000 without money being deducted from their AISH payment. If they go on ADAP, they can only make $350 more. Here is a link to the information: Understanding the proposed changes to AISH, the new Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP), This is still slated to take place; there is no news about the infrastructure to support the ADAP program.
Wildlife - the bills that the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife has introduced that allow using dogs to hunt cougars and bears, trapping of endangered animals, and nine trips out of Canada to promote/sell his Ministerial licenses to come hunt in Alberta, when his family owns an outfitting/hunting company, “Red Willow Outfitters.” They are now being sued by wildlife organizations. It is the time of year that Loewen is making the tours of all the wildlife events outside of Alberta (in other countries) to auction/sell off his Ministerial hunting licenses. They have made it legal to hunt fenced in deer and elk populations (canned hunting).
Are there any we have missed? Let us know.
Build Community: Albertans need to work together to educate and build community. Finding your people is important. We are starting to host Zoom meetings and setting up to connect people in communities across Alberta.
Town halls, such as the Accidental Advocate and Friends of Medicare, are hosting Dr. Paul Parks. The Separatists and the Far right, like TBA (Take Back Alberta), are well-organized and have lots of money. Forever Canadian is getting ready to launch citizen actions. We need to counter that with information and community. Be a part of the change. See our ABR Resistor Update.
Join our Facebook page or a local group that shares events, information, and ideas on how to spread the word.
If you haven’t joined our webpage yet, please do. We are sending out newsletters specifically for different areas of Alberta to get support for recalls. There are many jobs you can do. If you join our volunteer list, I will invite you to our “Recall Connect” group so you can connect directly with recalls that are looking for assistance.
Knowledge:
Talk to your friends and share what you know. Watching the Socials, we see more outrage and anger about what is happening to Health Care, Education, Social Services, and the Environment in this province. These areas affect everyone! It’s time to speak up.
(They only win if we give up!)
Wins this week -
We are continuing to work with other groups to show up at peaceful demonstrations around the province. For details, see our ABR Resistor Update.
AB Resistance is a small group of volunteers that pays for expenses solely through donations. Hosting town halls, printing, paying for websites, and social media software all cost money. If you would like to donate to our cause, please transfer to abrdonate@gmail.com. We are a third-party advertiser, which means we report to Alberta Elections. When you donate, please include your name, address, and postal code in the message. The question is “What province do we live in? = Alberta, even if you don’t live here. It makes it easier for our CFO to accept your money. Thanks to everyone who has already donated. You can now sign up for our Substack. We will be publishing extra articles that uncover what the government is doing. By joining, you help us to fund townhalls, print materials, and get the word out to the public.
ABResistance has a “Speaker Series” - They are coming! For the Speaker Series lineup, Ali has: Chris from Friends of Medicare to talk about healthcare, and Claire Kratz to talk about the environment.
Dr. Jared Wesley, Nigel Banks, and Corb Lund with Laura Lang. We are not sure of the exact dates, so stay posted.
There are more being posted as we get them ready, so keep checking our YouTube channel, and we will post them in the newsletter as well (See the video section)
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