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What's New at PIA?
Click the links above or scroll down for more PIA news, events, and actions!
Our Water Is Not For Sale
Water is essential to all life and should be recognized as a human right and protected and prioritized for basic human needs and for the ecosystems on which our survival depends.
The Government of Alberta, however, is poised to make major irreversible changes to how we allocate water throughout Alberta. Their plan would create a deregulated market system that will give control of our water to a few who would profit by selling something they got for free. We are calling on the government, instead, to establish a system that respects treaty rights and puts the needs of people, our communities, and the environment first.
Visit the Our Water Is Not For Sale website for information and resources on water markets and the campaign to protect this priceless resource that is essential to each of our lives. |
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Join Together Alberta! Unite for public services, strengthen the fabric of our communities
Join Public Interest Alberta and many other organizations and individuals across the province in challenging the provincial government's unnecessary cuts to vital public services such as health care, education, and community human services.
Visit the website where you can find more information, sign our petition, send a message to your MLA and more!
Declare Your Right to Vote - Legal Action Launched to Challenge Alberta Election Failures
We Must Do Better: It's Time to Make Alberta Poverty-Free
Following from a series of province-wide forums on poverty reduction, PIA and Edmonton Social Planning Council released a report on the critical need for a comprehensive poverty elimination strategy for Alberta.
PIA's Annual Conference:
PIA's Annual Advocacy Conference took place on April 8 - 10, 2010
Our annual conferences are essential opportunities to work with other individuals and organizations in developing positive solutions and strengthening our commitment to effective advocacy in the public interest.
This year, we were honoured to have as our keynote speaker David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and Agenda for a New Economy, as well as first-rate plenary speakers on key topics including Robert Chernomas, a well-published Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Alex Molnar, an expert on the commercialization of public education from Arizona State University, Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition, Ricardo Acuna, Executive Director of the Parkland Institute in Edmonton, and Meera Karunananthan, National Water Campainger for the Council of Canadians.
Click here for more information on the conference and be sure check back for the conference report as well as video interviews with the speakers and more.
Albertans Who Care: Advocacy Campaign Reveals Cuts to People with Developmental Disabilities
PIA has renewed its campaign calling for investments in community human services, now called Albertans Who Care, and on November 5 released information on cuts to the PDD (People with Developmental Disabilities) sector. Please support this campaign by visiting the website, sharing your stories, insights and ideas about community human services, and writing a letter to your MLA and the Premier.
Read the media release from November 5
Visit the Albertans Who Care website
Get the Message: Don't Sell Alberta's Seniors Out
Click here for more information
Campaign Demands Investment in Post-Secondary Education
PIA's task force on post-secondary education is launching a campaign to defend against cutbacks that threaten students, faculty, staff and the quality of education in our valuable institutions across the province.
Click here for more information, and to help us advocate for Alberta's post-secondary education system
It's Time to Demand Electoral Financing Reform in Alberta!
When it comes to the financing of our political campaigns and parties, Alberta has some of the least democratic, least innovative regulations in the country. Public Interest Alberta is highlighting the issue of campaign and party finance as the first step towards More Democracy in our province. As Albertans, we cherish the principles of our democracy, and must demand reform to ensure that electoral financing regulations work in the public interest.
What can you do?
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Our Power Citizens Group Defends the Public Interest
Visit the Our Power Citizens Group website to learn more about Edmonton City Council's private decision to sell EPCOR's power-generating assets, and find out what you can do to demand fairness and defend the public interest.
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