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Linda Sloan would make one great poker player. The president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association was handed a royal flush late last week, and when given the opportunity to […]

Low-level bullying is bad, but high-level bulling is fine. There’s the latest news flash from an inconsistent government. For writing a stupid letter to a local school board, PC MLA […]

Catholic board warned comments could delay new school decision A culture of “political extortion” practised by the Alberta government has been laid bare in a recent letter from northern Conservative […]

CALGARY — Tory MLA Hector Goudreau stepped in one huge cow pie when he told a northern school board last month that offending the wrong people could delay funding for […]

EDMONTON – With an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, Alberta currently fares better than any other Canadian province. But despite being fairly insulated from the economic turmoil plaguing the rest […]

A reasonable pace of oil-sands development would mean more jobs for Albertans, says AFL Calls to expand the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Alberta are a move to unfairly […]

Coalition calls for changes that would bring more workers into the province ahead of an anticipated shortage EDMONTON – An alliance of 19 Alberta business organizations called on the federal […]

Election 2012 Report Card, February 2012 Over the past several months, the AFL has given each party a chance to show us where they stand ont he issues important to […]

Election 2012 – Make It Count! (February 2012) Vote for working people. Let’s face it. Politicians only speak one language: getting elected!

More and more Albertans understand the value of having a stronger opposition. They know that if we have an effective opposition, we can hold the government accountable and take them […]

OTTAWA — New Democratic Party leadership candidate Brian Topp, who has accused perceived front-runner Thomas Mulcair of having a plan to make the federal government “addicted” to oil and gas […]

EDMONTON – With a provincial election expected this spring, voters are going to be wooed by politicians using “creative language” to promise improved health care when they’re elected, consumer advocate […]

Tories acting to benefit pipeline companies and foreign oil interests, says AFL The Conservative government’s withdrawal of support for an upgrader clearly shows its priority is exporting raw bitumen instead […]

Wildrose agrees with the Alberta Federation of Labour and the New Democrats VANCOUVER, Feb. 24, 2012/ Troy Media/ – In an early February announcement with a local candidate near Edmonton, […]

A proposed new pension system puts the retirement security of New York firefighters, teachers, police officers and other public employees at risk, and the New York State AFL-CIO is fighting […]

Alberta’s largest union is calling on the government to tighten transportation safety regulations lest migrant workers in that province suffer a similar fate to those killed in a recent crash […]

INDIANAPOLIS – Union members went to federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to block Indiana’s new right-to-work law from being enforced, the first lawsuit and latest conflict over the […]

One million Canadians work in federally regulated workplaces. They deserve a government that respects their fundamental rights. Stop Federal Interference in Free Collective Bargaining Since winning a majority government, Mr. […]

Last chance to see Ralph Nader and Maude Barlow at Beyond Acute Care Conference You have only until tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday, Feb. 22) to register for the Beyond Acute Care: […]

Chinese deals make Canada seem like junior partner According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his recent trip to China was about advancing and protecting the “national interest.” But after taking […]

The public debate surrounding Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline has suddenly veered off in a new direction, powered by economic nationalists and the suggestion that rather than exporting oil […]

Pollution, bribes, more. Nikiforuk pries open the record of China’s oil giant, business partner for Northern Gateway pipeline. Sinopec, Enbridge’s Chinese business partner for the Northern Gateway Project, has a […]

Premier must fulfill her pledge to protect workers and close legal loopholes, says AFL A transportation tragedy on the scale that killed 11 farm workers in Ontario last week is […]

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline will deliver an inflationary oil price “shock” to Canadians of US$2 to $3 per barrel “every year for 30 years,” a B.C. economist predicts. Robyn […]