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‘Burma sanctions must stay’: trade unions
Mar 6, 2012

Burma must take significant steps to end human rights abuses, especially forced labour, before the EU can consider easing further sanctions against Burma, a leading British union body has warned. […]

Tories accused of muzzling critics
Mar 3, 2012

Catholic board warned comments could delay new school decision A culture of “political extortion” practised by the Alberta government has been laid bare in a recent letter from northern Conservative […]

Braid: MLA Goudreau’s letters inconvenient proof of Tory practices
Mar 3, 2012

CALGARY — Tory MLA Hector Goudreau stepped in one huge cow pie when he told a northern school board last month that offending the wrong people could delay funding for […]

Alberta’s woes: too many jobs, not enough people to fill them
Mar 2, 2012

EDMONTON – With an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, Alberta currently fares better than any other Canadian province. But despite being fairly insulated from the economic turmoil plaguing the rest […]

Expanding TFW program an attack on workers, says labour group
Mar 1, 2012

A reasonable pace of oil-sands development would mean more jobs for Albertans, says AFL Calls to expand the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Alberta are a move to unfairly […]

Labour crunch threatens Alberta’s growth, groups warn
Mar 1, 2012

Coalition calls for changes that would bring more workers into the province ahead of an anticipated shortage EDMONTON – An alliance of 19 Alberta business organizations called on the federal […]