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Alberta Essential Workers to Receive $1,200 Benefit – February 10, 2021 At a press conference in Edmonton, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney discusses the province’s plan to recognize critical workers who continue to provide services during the COVID-19 pandemic. He announces that essential workers who have worked over 300 hours since the beginning of the pandemic will receive a $1,200 one-time payment through the Critical Worker Benefit. This $465 million joint federal-provincial program will reach approximately 380,000 Albertans. The premier is joined by Alberta Labour and Immigration Minist...

After much criticism, the United Conservatives announce details of the Critical Worker Benefit Program

Alberta will pay 25 per cent, while the federal government foots 75 per cent of the bill

Daily testing for Covid-19 is to be paused in schools due to new health advice and the emergence of a new variant of the virus. A spokesperson for the Government said: “Since the announcement of the schools testing programme in December, we have seen the emergence of a new variant of the virus which has become dominant in the UK. “The variant has been shown to have increased transmissibility and causes higher secondary attack rates.” The spokesperson added that given the variant “has higher rates of transmission and hence generates a higher secondary attack rate – and that t...

Out of that total, 149 are fully shut to ALL pupils. The remaining 12 schools are described as being partially closed. Nine of those schools have shut at different points throughout the day. Both Midland Road Nursery closed at 11.45am, while Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford shut at 12pm and Glenaire Primary School closed its doors at 12.30pm. Baildon C of E Primary School and East Morton C of E Primary School both made the decision to shut at 1pm, while Menston Primary School asked parents and guardians to pick students up between 1.15pm and 1.30pm. Finally, Wibsey Pri...