Monday, March 31: The Ministry of Children and Family Services announced it would stop funding the Child & Youth Support Program. The program primarily provided financial and medical benefits to children whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.
March 31: After Alberta Health Services (AHS) cut funding for “nourishment” for hospital and ER outpatients in late March, an upset Calgary mother posted on Facebook that the Children’s Hospital had denied her 11-year-old son, who has brain cancer, his usual post-treatment ginger ale or popsicle. An AHS memo said the cut would “improve efficiency” and that patients can use vending machines. On March 31 Health Minister Adriana LaGrange responded to the Facebook post, saying the information was “incorrect or being misrepresented.”
Tuesday, April 1: Andre Tremblay, interim president and CEO of AHS, announced that AHS would not proceed with the changes to food policy in ERs and other non-inpatient areas.
April 1: Premier Danielle Smith celebrated the removal of the federal consumer carbon tax and the average of $215 in fuel savings and $480 in home heating savings a year for Alberta families the move represents. The consumer carbon tax rebate, also removed April 1, previously provided a family of four with up to $1,800 a year via quarterly tax-free payments.
Wednesday, April 2: Premier Smith responded to President Donald Trump’s announcement of new, sweeping global tariffs, calling the lack of new tariffs on Canada “an important win for Canada and Alberta.” Tariffs on Canadian cars, steel and aluminum remain in place.
April 2: AHS released a health advisory about a confirmed measles case in Lethbridge. As of the announcement, the province has recorded 24 cases of measles.
Thursday, April 3: The United Nurses of Alberta, representing over 30,000 nurses, reached a four-year deal with the province representing a pay increase of around 20 per cent by 2028.
Friday, April 4: After Reform Party founder Preston Manning wrote in a Globe and Mail op-ed that “a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession—a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it,” Liberal leader Mark Carney replied at a news conference. “I think such dramatic comments are unhelpful at a time when Canadians are coming together,” he said, adding that he grew up in Edmonton. “I’m part of a government that governs for all of the country, and very much for the West.”
April 4: Statistics Canada’s March 2025 Labour Force Survey showed that Alberta was one of only two provinces where employment fell from the month prior, and that Alberta now ranks fourth in unemployment in the country with a rate of 7.1 per cent. The decline is largely found in manufacturing and wholesale and retail trade.