Kena
Kena
@kenashah.com
Journalist. '24 Amnesty International Media Award Winner. Signal: kenashah.02
Public records I obtained showed that this is false and that Alberta salaries are actually lower than other provinces for many workers, including teachers.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Spending over $42000 of taxpayer money on Meta platforms alone, the Alberta government ran the Better Here Campaign claiming that salaries for public sector workers are better here.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Of course. This nuance is explained in the story.
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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+ one more thing, if you want an issue impacting you to be covered, one way to increase that happening is to email a journalist offering to be a source.
June 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
healthcare workers are leaving Alberta for other provinces or elsewhere. Further, these ads, supposedly meant to attract workers to the province, were being shown only to Albertans.

Full story below, for @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-s...
Alberta Is Struggling to Keep Its Nurses and Teachers | The Walrus
Internal documents show the province tried to make workers “feel good about their service.” They don’t
thewalrus.ca
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
nurses, paramedics, and teachers. But a public records request I filed showed that these “highest salaries in Canada” are non-existent. In fact, Alberta has some of the lowest take home pay for these professions. Worker data from the CIHI also confirms what unions have been saying:
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I'm going to be honest this is really killing my faith in humanity (not that I had much left).

Don't you want to know why? Don't you want to find out interesting things about the world? Maybe it's not science, but maybe it's literature or fashion or sports!
May 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM