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05/29/2026

Massive turnout in Edmonton for today's province-wide Day of Protest!

Across the province, tens of thousands of Albertans rallied today at 21 actions in 16 cities!

05/29/2026

Join Public Interest Alberta for a special screening of the award-winning documentary UNION on Sunday, May 31 @ 6:30 pm at the Metro Cinema!

Learn more and grab tickets at https://luma.com/0pigi2i3

Join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary UNION, hosted by Public Interest Alberta, on Sunday, May 31st @ 6:30 PM at the Metro Cinema!

“Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.” 

Shortlisted for the Oscars and named one of the best films of 2024 by the New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, and Rotten Tomatoes, witness the incredible story of how the Amazon Labor Union stood up to one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. 

Learn more and grab tickets at https://luma.com/0pigi2i3

Link is also in our bio!

✨ When: Sunday, May 31st @ 6:30 PM
📍 Where: Metro Cinema (8712 109 St NW)
🎤 Hosted by: Public Interest Alberta

If cost is a barrier, please reach out to us.
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Public Interest Alberta is a non-profit, non-partisan, province-wide organization focused on education and advocacy on public interest issues. Public Interest Alberta encourages all Albertans opposed to the privatization and ideological overreach by the provincial government to join Public Interest Alberta.

https://linktr.ee/publicinterestalberta

05/28/2026

Reminder: tomorrow (May 29) is the province-wide Day of Protest! See you at the Edmonton protest at Centennial Plaza at 11:15 for the march to the Edmonton Convention Centre.

Wear yellow and bring signs & noisemakers.

Get full details and RSVP at http://fightbacknow.ca

05/26/2026

Join us in supporting Alberta teachers on Friday, May 29 from 8-10 am at the Walterdale Bridge for the province-wide Day of Protest!

05/22/2026

On May 29, Albertans in 16 communities across the province will be standing up against the current direction of the Alberta government at the Alberta Federation of Labour's province-wide Day of Protest!

NASA will be joining the rally and march in downtown Edmonton and we hope to see you there!

Edmonton Day of Protest
Friday, May 29

11:15 am: Gather in Centennial Plaza (south of the downtown Stanley Milner Library at 9924 101A Ave).
11:30 am: March to join 600 healthcare workers rallying at the Edmonton Convention Centre. The rally will be over by 1:00 pm.

Please wear yellow and consider bringing a sign and noisemaker.

Full details and RSVP at fightbacknow.ca

05/01/2026

Happy May Day, everyone!

It was great to celebrate International Workers' Day on campus with our fellow workers, friends, and allies!

Solidarity!

04/28/2026

April 28 is observed annually as the National Day of Mourning for workers who died on the job or from illnesses acquired in the workplace. According to the official numbers accepted by the Workers' Compensation Board, 144 Alberta workers were killed as a result of workplace injuries or illnesses in 2025.

Today at 11 am, family, friends, co-workers, and the broader labour community will gather in Grant Notley Park at the Broken Families Monument for the Edmonton & District Labour Council's annual Day of Mourning commemoration event.

Every year we gather in Grant Notley Park at the Broken Families Monument to honour those who have lost their lives as a result of their jobs in the preceding year. This year our theme is Psychological Safety – The Invisible Threat where we will discuss the broad and long reaching impacts of ps...

04/17/2026

On this day in 1984, the Canada Health Act received Royal Assent and became law.

42 years later, the Canada Health Act and the future of Canada's universal public health care are in grave danger because of Alberta's Bill 11. That's why over 50 organizations from across the country have signed onto a letter we sent this morning to Prime Minister Carney 🇨🇦 and federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel urging them to enforce the Canada Health Act to protect Canada’s public health care.

➤ Read our press release and the letter here: https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/50_orgs_canada_health_act

📢🎂 Don't let today be the last anniversary of the Canada Health Act: Stop two-tier health care!

➤ Stand up for public health care by celebrating the CHA TODAY: https://www.una.ca/1768/stand-up-for-public-health-care-by-celebrating-the-canada-health-act
➤ Send a message: https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/enforcethecha

04/10/2026

Friends of Medicare has spent the past few months visiting 19 communities across Alberta with emergency physician, Dr. Paul Parks, on our Urgent Conversation townhall tour.

So far we've talked to THOUSANDS of Albertans from Lethbridge to Fort McMurray about our public health care—and we want to talk to YOU too!

➕ Join us for our ONLINE townhall Sunday, April 19! Register:
https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/virtualtownhall

12/11/2025

The Alberta government has passed dangerous legislation that threatens public health care across Canada. Bill 11, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, allows doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics for medically necessary procedures while also working in the public system.

Alberta's law sets a dangerous precedent that will spread without federal action. That’s why the Canadian Health Coalition is launching a national campaign to flood Health Minister Marjorie Michel's office and MP offices across the country with one clear message: enforce the Canada Health Act and stop two-tier health care.

It takes just one minute to send your letter. Enter your name, address, and hit send. Your letter will automatically go to Minister Michel and your MP.

Alberta has passed Bill 11 (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 cor...