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Alberta heads for another jobs crisis – and this time it will be self-inflicted
Jan 22, 2010

Deep public-sector spending cuts will kill tens of thousands of private-sector jobs, along with public ones The Stelmach government will stifle Alberta’s fragile recovery and create its own made-in-Alberta recession […]

Labour coalition takes aim at Ted Morton
Jan 15, 2010

Premier Ed Stelmach’s new cabinet members are to be sworn in this morning at Government House but the attack on one new minister has already begun. Public service organizations are […]

Morton warns Alberta’s spending ‘buffet’ coming to an end
Jan 15, 2010

As Premier Ed Stelmach warned Thursday that Albertans should brace for a leaner budget, his new finance minister issued his own missive: The province’s all-you-can-eat spending buffet is about to […]

Coalition to rally opposition to budget cuts
Jan 15, 2010

Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour says there’s growing public opposition to planned government cuts. (CBC)A coalition of 10 unions and lobby groups launched a new campaign Friday […]

Suncor asset sale a sign of permanent structural shift in gas patch
Jan 15, 2010

CALGARY – Suncor’s decision this week to unwind its natural-gas business points to what could be a permanent structural shift that highlights the decreasing competitiveness of Alberta’s natural gas patch, […]

Stelmach loyalists among the shuffled
Jan 14, 2010

EDMONTON – Premier Ed Stelmach softened the face of his government’s health reforms and signalled a shift to the fiscal right in a cabinet shuffle Wednesday. With his party falling […]