Labour unions in B.C. and Alberta commemorated the 13th International Day of Mourning amid claims that provincial government statistics underestimate the numbers of employees killed. The Alberta Ministry of Employment […]

Family income in Calgary this decade has increased by nearly double the national average while the Alberta figure is nearly triple, states a Statistics Canada report. But the numbers also […]

Labour Economic Monitor (May 2008) These are odd times in Alberta. With oil prices on the spot market topping $130/barrel and natural gas prices on the uptrend, you’d expect the […]

EDMONTON – Not even two years after Lorna Chandler’s husband was crushed in a grain silo at a feedlot near High River, one of his employers also died in a […]

The elimination of health-care premiums will pump $1 billion annually into the economy beginning next January and some of that cash could wind up in employees’ pockets, say business and […]

Alberta’s provincial opposition is calling for the province’s labour standards code and job safety legislation to include farm workers. Liberal Leader Kevin Taft on Monday called for the Stelmach government […]