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Enbridge, union clash over bitumen pipeline project
Sep 24, 2012

Bitumen pipeline placement Comments made by the late Peter Lougheed hung over public hearings Monday about a pipeline that would ship bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to Asian markets. Both sides […]

Lougheed legacy cited by both sides in Northern Gateway pipeline debate
Sep 24, 2012

EDMONTON – Both sides in the Northern Gateway pipeline debate claimed support from former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed during some testy moments at hearings into the proposed 525,000-barrel-a-day pipeline that […]

Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings continue in Edmonton
Sep 22, 2012

Hearings dealing with the Northern Gateway Pipeline continued in Edmonton, Saturday, and for the first time backers of the project were given the chance to cross examine those opposing it. […]

Protect farm workers
Sep 20, 2012

Re: “Voluntary safety rules for farms ineffective, experts say,” Sept. 18. It is hard to describe how disheartening, how damaging, how dreadful it must be for farm workers and their […]

Urgent Action: RALLY for CEP 52A Edmonton Catholic Support staff Friday, Sept 21 at 10:30 AM
Sep 20, 2012

Issue: RALLY for CEP 52A Edmonton Catholic Support staff Friday, September 21, 2012 at 10:30 AM Edmonton Catholic Support Staff are well into their second week of their strike. Friday’s […]

The only sector where you can’t have a union is the only one with no health and safety rules? Explain, please…
Sep 19, 2012

Literally everybody – and that includes Alberta Premier Alison Redford – knows that permitting an industry to “voluntarily” self-regulate the health and safety of its own workers amounts to a […]