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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 […]

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 […]