EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour today strongly criticized the federal government’s proposed new measures to fast-track citizenship for only certain classes of temporary foreign workers in Canada. “By […]

Many of Canada’s streets-including some in Toronto and Calgary-are lined not with gold, but with asbestos. The Alberta Federation of Labour doesn’t like it. The labor union has accused the […]

CALGARY – Temporary foreign workers are streaming into Alberta at breakneck speed to meet labour shortages – and are, for the first time, surpassing the province’s yearly intake of permanent […]

EDMONTON–The number of workers being brought into Alberta under the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program continues to spiral upward, according to figures quietly posted on the federal government’s Citizenship and […]

A little more than halfway through the year, the dollar amount of fines levied against Alberta companies convicted of workplace safety violations is more than twice the total amount from […]

In approving the Keystone pipeline expansion, the National Energy Board (NEB) was not persuaded the project would threaten potential upgrading jobs in Alberta, the board ruled in a 98-page decision. […]