24 Facts About Shannon Phillips

Shannon Phillips is a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Shannon Phillips is a partner with Meredith, Boessenkool and Phillips Policy Advisors.

Phillips' mother was a physics teacher in Spruce Grove, where Phillips grew up with her parents and younger sister.

Shannon Phillips graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honours in 1999 and with a Master of Arts in 2002.

Shannon Phillips is an economic policy analyst who worked for the Alberta Federation of Labour for five years prior to political life, where she did much work on energy and environment-related matters.

Shannon Phillips served as chair of the group Womanspace Lethbridge for five years.

Shannon Phillips is an activist, a feminist, and is in favour of organized labour.

Shannon Phillips organized her first protest at age 17, which was successful in fighting Spruce Grove's curfew imposed on teenagers.

Shannon Phillips played roller derby for the Deathbridge Derby Dames team as Gnome Stompsky, an homage to American political writer and activist Noam Chomsky.

Shannon Phillips is conversational in French and is a mother of two sons.

In 2000, Shannon Phillips worked on Brian Mason's by-election campaign in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood.

Shannon Phillips was a University of Alberta political science grad interning in the office of Brian Mason and worked as a communication aide during the early years Ralph Klein was premier of Alberta.

Shannon Phillips previously ran in the 2012 general election, losing to Progressive Conservative incumbent Greg Weadick.

Shannon Phillips has advocated on numerous issues, including Indigenous land claims, consultation and relations, climate change, human rights, technology industry programs, renewable energy procurement, support for small and local breweries, public service wages and women's economic equality.

Shannon Phillips is an advocate for labour relations and bargaining rights.

Shannon Phillips is an advocate for the Water Act, which protects Water Act license holders to first-in-time, first-in-right system that protects investments in irrigation, a benefit to farmers.

Shannon Phillips has been advocating for Lethbridge's Supervised injection site to expand for safe intox and detox support, as well as supportive housing.

Shannon Phillips' first act as Environment Minister was to ensure quality oil sands monitoring and that the chief scientist that is in charge of the report makes it public, and not to the Minister.

Shannon Phillips spoke and voted against Bill 8, which she and others gave the sarcastic nickname "Bill Hate".

Shannon Phillips recalls growing up in a homophobic community where her peer confided in her their fears of being killed if the public were to fight out that they were gay, which greatly influenced Shannon Phillips' advocacy for GSAs.

On January 8,2018, Shannon Phillips was in the news because of a Tweet, which Shannon Phillips said was sent by her assistant, in support of a Green Challenge by Environment Lethbridge, in which the Lethbridge organization called on all Albertans to undertake five actions for 30 days from January 15 through February 15.

In January 2019, Shannon Phillips was criticized in the media for misleading Albertans, alleging the Royal Canadian Mounted Police advised her to cancel public consultations when no such advisement occurred.

Shannon Phillips was in the process of meeting with stakeholders in the lead-up to the formation of Castle Provincial Park, where the two officers had an interest in off-road vehicle driving.

Shannon Phillips resigned as an MLA effective July 1,2024, having opted out of the Alberta New Democrats leadership race following the retirement of Rachel Notley as leader, believing that she had accomplished enough in politics, had unnamed opportunities in the private sector and wanted to spend more time with her two teenage sons.