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Parties gear up with full slate of candidates
Mar 19, 2012

The New Democratic Party has a candidate running in all 87 provincial ridings, beating even the ruling Tory government to full slate status. In Edmonton-Goldbar candidate Marlin Schmidt has been […]

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Labour and Social Planning ordered a Mexican Consulate in Canada to conduct an anti-union campaign
Mar 19, 2012

Three former employees of the Mexican Consulate in Vancouver revealed before the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (in Canada) that they had received specific orders from Mexican public service employees […]

Health inquiry won’t include intimidation allegations
Mar 18, 2012

Minister reaches out to medical association EDMONTON – Health Minister Fred Horne stood his ground on the nature of the province’s public health-care inquiry Saturday, indicating recent calls from representatives […]

Dig deep to pay for schools
Mar 18, 2012

The province will be making announcements about new school projects in the next few days, Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk told Alberta teachers at a pre-election forum Saturday. He added a […]

Oilsands
Mar 18, 2012

The management of Alberta’s 171 billion barrels of proven oil reserves will be a major election issue, with political parties at odds about everything from upgrading to pipelines to environmental […]

B.C. public-sector unions look for pay raises after net-zero contracts
Mar 18, 2012

VICTORIA – British Columbia’s governing Liberals prefer the terms “net zero” and “co-operative gains” to describe their plans to rein in the cost of public-sector contracts, but unions say what […]