I find it interesting how the mod has a problem with one individual doing the exact same thing as another individual is doing but the right guy gets removed and the communist gets, what, a pat on the back? I thought this was a right wing paper, apparently someone needs to tell the staff. I wonder what Ezra would think?

A teachers aide who makes $38K a year is rarely the breadwinner in a household and is little more than a glorified babysitter. Add to that $38K the cost of the gold plated benefits package they all have and you can double the actual cost to the taxpayer. As for breaking the law, she is a lawyer and she can press charges if she wants. But I guess she may not want to since she kept the money from the no meet committee and that amounts to fraud. I'd say that fraud is a much more serious charge than holding a democratic election. And if ex W/R MLAs are elected in the next election and make it into cabinet then it is the will of the people. Who is she to complain against what the electorate wants?

"is little more than a glorified babysitter"

That reflects your ignorance in a big way. Do you have any clue what an EA does at a school?

Actually, yes I do. My neighbour's wife is one and regularly relates her duties as wiping kids noses and a$$e$ and trying to keep them entertained while class is in session.

Yeah, right.

Well what is your "knowledge" on the subject?

Parent.

So yours is the kid with the snotty nose?

Do they really need an assistant to wipe them all through grade school?

You are making the incredibly ignorant assumption that is all that an EA does. And it is by far not the case.

OK, I'll let the neighbour's wife know that she has no idea of what she does for a living but you do.

Careful if you piss this troll off he will get his pal the mod to nuke you too.

I actually have kids in school and talk to and see the EA's myself.

Feel free to tell your neighbour's wife what you want. Perhaps she needs to find a job she is competent at if all she is doing is "wiping noses". That is if she even is an EA.

I'll do better than that, I'll show her your posts.

I hope you do. If she even exists and is an EA because it sure doesn't sound like it.

Mostly wipe snotty noses...

More ignorance.

You are the troll my friend.

lol. You are the one that seems to be having issues in the rationality and sanity department.

When she wins the election the statute of limitations will long since have expired and Nuge will likely have grandchildren.

Government workers, who work for US, should never be paid more than minimum wage. From the premier down to the lowliest part time janitor, if you want to make more GET A REAL JOB!

Now if Notley would only pay back the money she received from the "no meet committee". She is quick to be critical , however has the same entitlement attitude . Come on Rachel , show some courage and pay the money back that you didn't earn .

"an educational aid who works with special needs kids who
makes $38,000 a year, to give up money too - that’s unfair.”

No it is unfair they are making $38,000 a year when the Canadian average is $23.097

I doubt that is the average in Alberta, and if so it includes all of the work force (aka kids working in fast food jobs), not high stress jobs that someone went to school to train for. you can bet on the fact that educational aid works 10 times harder every day than any MLA, for a fraction of the salary. Paycuts will only force these types of workers to flee to the private sector, and then we'll really be in trouble. You think government services are hard to access now? Just wait and see what happens if you threaten to cut pay from those who can't afford it.

$23,097?? Stats can says $910.74, or $47,358.48 per year. You just about got it half right.

I'd like you to see if you could live on $23,097 in alberta that is less then $2000/ month gross. Give me a break!! You try changing feeding tubes and see if its worth less then $2000/month gross.

Why don't you apply for a job that pays more??

If you think the job is too easy, too overpaid they you try it. Grant McEwan has the 8 month course ready for fall enrollment. Better yet, go volunteer in a special needs classroom.
By the end of the day, you will be advocating that $38,000 is a low wage for what those people do.

$38,000 isn't unfair. The double digit paid sick days( ie long week-ends) and 182 days worked in a year and private sector contributing to their pension when being unable to put a cent into their own......that IS unfair.

What you (and everyone else) seems to always omit is that school days and teaching hours are ALL mandated by the GOVERNMENT. NOT by teachers. You want that changed? Go talk to Mr. Prentice.

And never will be.

Never heard of the '' No meet Committee?'' You are the one with your head up your arse. Maybe get your mom to read you a paper more than once a year doughnut hole.

A lefty favorite.'' Go live in Korea.'' You're about as original as oatmeal cookies. You don't like Harper? Why don't you go live in Korea. eff your stupid.

Jan 5, 2015 - It's putting its $750 billion in foreign currency reserves on the line this is the decision by Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter. HOW MUCH has Prentice & his PC government saved up last year NOTHING ! How much in the last two year has the PC saved up NOTHING ! How much in the LAST 41 YEARS has the PC Government saved up for the ALBERTA people NOTHING ! NOT ONE DIME ! IT's Doom & Gloom every time THE Oil goes BUST ! SOON it will be the PRENTICE / SMITH show coming to ALBERTA soon ! AND Alberta has the the 3 or 4 largest reserves in the world and we are penniless. AGAIN ! And Prentice & his criminal MLA's want to shave 5% off their $200, k plus wage's so he and his crooks can shave at least 5 % off EVER TAX PAYERS wages and many don't make more than 40 to 50 thousand a year ! Living from pay cheque to pay cheque.... The Saddest part of this all is WE HAVE NO Alternative OPPOSITION Party. Prentice & his 1 % bought them all with our money for pennies on the dollar .... SMITH & PRENTICE JUST bought the Mayor of HIGH RIVER for $20 MILLON dollars .... a bargain & a BUY ELECTION AGAIN ! SMITH will get her gift from Prentice & the PC's her EX WILD ROSE DISTRICT back but turned into PC DISTRICT over night All this thanks to The Mayor of HIGH RIVER Craig Snotface ! HA HA HA HA and Alberta despised ALLISON REDFORD

This is all irrelevant...I mean gas at the pumps has jumped over 11 cents since last week so obviously oil has rebounded and the issue is a mute point. Yaaaaaaa economy....now get those schools built!

Gas jumped BUT the price of oil didn't go up at all. Grab a lungful of air and clear your head.

It rebounded in Alberta because the POLITICIANS raised the taxes I bet. Everywhere else it is still falling. Jack says that Costco gas in Arizona dropped to $1.69 a gallon the other day so it does NOT seem to be going UP ANYWHERE ELSE. Why just in Alberta? Greed!!!

Oil hasn't rebounded, the cost of wholesale gasoline has increased. Oil is still 53 bucks a barrel.

Try 45

Thanks biggy..... Obviously you didn't pick up on the sarcasm.

Under NDP rule our Provincial bank account would have been emptied years ago when oil was $140 per barrel.
We would be by now in a Greek type financial crisis with the IMF moving in to take over our finances.

The top ten list of the most indebted countries in the world, 8 of them are in Europe with Sweden being the poster boy of how wealth redistribution has destroyed the work ethic of a whole culture.

Read the Swedish Story, a pathetic example of how Liberal progressive ideologies have dumbed down a whole society into walking tax paying drone slaves of the state.

I don't understand your argument. You think we still have money in our accounts now? Prentice is trying to do the same thing that Klein did 20 years ago...do you not see the pattern here? Nothing was fixed except that the elite 1% are continuing to give raises to themselves while keeping the middle class poor and the lower class on welfare. Cutting the wages of less then of 100,000 workers might save $600 million (or 1.8 Billion over three years) Raising the corporate tax rate by 2% will increase 2 Billion (or 6 Billion over three years) Raising the tax rate on people making over $135,000 a year (Members of Government make $135,000) will increase revenue by 1.5 Billion (or 4.5 Billion over three years). We need to change this government and get some people that can think.

Raising the corporate tax rate by 2% won't get $2B when corporate earnings drop. Raising royalties on companies whose production costs are now higher than what they can sell their oil at only hastens the likelihood of bankruptcy and the resulting job losses. The ultra rich settlements the unions got from Redford in exchange for their vote are a good place to start reigning in government overspending but, I agree, it isn't the only thing that needs to be done. The vanity projects have to go as well and so do some things like schools which will be required only for perhaps 15 years then will be abandoned due to a reduction in that demographic. Nursing homes will also be out of style when the bulk of the baby boomers have passed on in about 15 to 20 years. What then would the government do with all these buildings that would have declining usage and increasing maintenance due to their age? Sell them off for pennies on the dollar?. The intelligent thing to do would be to rent the added space required for the short term and negate the losses that ownership poses at the end. In the mean time the cost savings from not having to spend the money to buy, construct, maintain and operate these facilities reduces the financial burden we leave to future generations.