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Premier announces major overhaul of Alberta cabinet amid dismal poll results
Jan 13, 2010

EDMONTON – Premier Ed Stelmach is overhauling Alberta’s 24-member cabinet in attempt to turn around his Progressive Conservative government’s sagging popularity. Fiscal hawk Ted Morton moves to finance, where the […]

Suncor cuts shine light on weakness of Alberta gas
Jan 13, 2010

CALGARY- Suncor’s decision 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, observers said […]

Year-end labour force numbers show Albertans are still hurting as province begins to emerge from recession
Jan 8, 2010

Recovery could be smothered in its infancy by provincial budget and job cuts, warns AFL Year-end employment figures released this morning by Statistics Canada paint a picture of an Alberta […]

AFL says Evans was wearing “rose-coloured glasses”
Jan 8, 2010

EDMONTON – As the latest employment figures were released Friday, government critics suggest Finance Minister Iris Evans was looking through “rose-coloured glasses” last year when she predicted just 15,000 Albertans […]

Plug pulled on lawsuit challenging EPCOR privatization
Dec 24, 2009

A retired lawyer’s legal fight with the city and EPCOR ended after his lawsuit challenging EPCOR’s multibillion-dollar sale of their power-generating assets was dismissed in court yesterday. “I think I’ve […]

Stelmach policy hurts upgrading
Dec 9, 2009

Polls have consistently shown that Albertans want to keep valuable oilsands upgrading and refining jobs in the province instead of shipping them down a pipeline to processing facilities in the […]