ATA Local #55 Pamphlet to Members - Parties Views on Education

Alberta Teacher's Association Local #55 Handout to Members The ATA (teacher's union of Alberta) has this week produced a pamphlet to its members released through the members' place of employment. This blogpost is to display the information provided.

Side one of unfolded handout:

Side two of unfolded handout:

Not considering the content, one difference is evident. The Wildrose Party is  displayed in excerpt paragraph form and the other parties are all in easier-to-read point form. I will let the individual parties consider the ATA's point of view.


Links to major parties educational platforms are below (where no specific link was found, the party's full platform was included):

Wildrose: http://www.wildrose.ca/policy/education/
               Wildrose Education Policy Report (PDF)
               Wildrose Policy Green Book
                 
PC: Alberta Progressive Conservative Full Election Platform (PDF)

Liberal: Alberta Liberal Full Election Platform (PDF)

NDP: http://albertandp.ca/wherewestand/details/education_for_success
          NDP Education_for_Success Issue Sheet (PDF)
          NDP Alberta Platform Book (PDF) 
          
Alberta Party: http://www.albertaparty.ca/education
                      Alberta Party Full Election Platform (PDF)
                     

Nenshi Twitter Comments about the Provincial Government Educational Rebate to Calgary

nenshi Naheed Nenshi

Happy to be delivering meals for Meals on Wheels today as part of Mayors for Meals! #yyc

21 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

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seismicdeath John Rennie

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@nenshi Perhaps you should also be delivering $42m of education back payments to the Public and Separate School Boards (or to taxpayers)

17 hours ago Favorite Reply Delete

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@nenshi Naheed Nenshi

@seismicdeath that would be the province, not us. They fund education, or don't.

9 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet Reply

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Rick Bell's comments about the $42 million.

Alberta Health Care Comment

A common sense approach to health care has been abandoned in Alberta and Canada.
It is more than just decreasing wait times in the ER and for surgeries. It is an easy political voice clip to say
"We are doing everything we can to reduce wait times."

To lay the blame on the state of our Alberta health care completely on the government is also missing important pieces of the medical puzzle: doctors, nurses, unions, the public, and yes - even the media - need involvement. Staff need the ability to recommend and make changes to the system and whistle-blow without punishment.

We need to triage the system and change the triage process for ER. What is the minimum ER coverage per 100,000 that is required? What is the rate currently? How does it compare to other jurisdictions? I have even not heard of any statistics comparing locales in Alberta, let alone Canadian or international comparisons.

We need real study, real solutions, and real health care coverage.

Common sense approaches and procedures need implementation like if a patient is showing symptoms of appendicitis, do not make him wait in the ER for 8+ hours, then take his blood to send away for testing, wait another 2+ hours sitting in an examination room, then to be told it is not appendicitis, go home. Gee that happened to me!

Where's Capt. Hawkeye, Dr. House, and Nurse Abby when you need them?

UPDATE:
Days after saying his critical 'input' was important -- the tories dump MLA Raj Sherman. He's been suspended from caucus.
From QP today: Why won't the Premier allow his MLAs to stand up for Albertans? http://youtu.be/-E5gRCPxu5s