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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 […]

Opening Statement NEB Hearing Order OH-1-2007
Dec 7, 2009

Opening Statement NEB Hearing Order OH-1-2007

Job gains mostly part-time: Only 200 new full-time Alberta jobs in October, out of 12,600 created
Dec 5, 2009

Alberta’s unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 per cent in November as 12,800 people found jobs –the largest monthly increase since October 2008. The provincial jobless rate dropped 0.1 percentage […]

What’s happened to the full-time jobs? asks AFL in wake of latest job figures
Dec 4, 2009

Labour leader in Calgary today to talk to Alberta manufacturing workers, one of the groups hardest hit by recession Please note that, due to weather conditions in Alberta today, Gil […]

MLAs freeze wages again, but Tories reject pay review
Dec 4, 2009

MLA wages will be frozen for a second straight year but an all-party committee– dominated by Tories–has rejected a proposal to strike up an independent panel to review politicians’ pay […]