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Plunging oil prices to have spillover effects onto rest of Canada
Nov 23, 2008

CALGARY – The effects of plunging oil prices on Alberta’s once red hot economy will stretch well beyond the oil laden province’s boundaries, touching everything from Ontario steel pipe producers […]

Employer charged after rape of worker: Guard sexually assaulted while alone on job site
Nov 12, 2008

A private security company has been charged with failing to ensure the safety of a female employee who was raped while working alone two years ago. Garda Canada Security Corp. […]

Keeping teenagers alive on the job: Provincial ad campaign emphasizes workplace safety
Nov 1, 2008

EDMONTON – For 16-year-old Mitchell Tanner, last summer’s full-time gig at Rona was the real deal. “Mitchie had had jobs before, but this was his first actual job,’” said Marjorie […]

Alberta students taking workplace safety ads to heart
Oct 31, 2008

Jason Reid covered his face as he heard the bone cracking and saw the leg breaking at the ankle. The worker-safety video may be a dramatization, but it was based […]

Oct 2008: New government safety ads fall flat; Unions and coops; National boycott of Petro-Canada
Oct 31, 2008

New Government Safety Ads Fall Flat New, gory health and safety ads from the Alberta government aimed at young workers strike the wrong chord with workers. The new, web-only, ads […]

Unions rap safety campaign
Oct 30, 2008

A labour group is giving Alberta’s video campaign aimed at reducing injuries among young workers the thumbs down. The $850,000 campaign features six graphic videos of young workers getting hurt […]