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CALGARY _ If anyone wants to see Alberta´s oilsands upgrading industry get a boost from the government as quickly as possible, it´s businesses in Alberta´s industrial heartland, just outside Edmonton. […]

Wrong Way! Stelmach vows to proceed with attacks on health care … In his recent televised address to the province, Premier Ed Stelmach vowed to press on with plans for […]

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach will take to the airwaves this week to deliver a plan to return the ailing province to a balanced budget in a “reasonable period of time.” […]

The mayor and city councillors acted legally when they privately approved the sale of Epcor shares in April, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench announced Friday, Sept. 25. The court […]

In Fort McMurray, it’s been a bad year for the cocaine and snowmobile dealers but boom times for the repo companies; thousands of oil sands workers are returning to places […]

It’s back to the drawing board, for the unions challenging the city’s decision to split up EPCOR. The Alberta Federation of Labour, along with two other city unions took the […]

Ruling doesn’t change the fact that Edmonton city council did an end run around the democratic process, says AFL EDMONTON – The labour unions that launched a legal challenge aimed […]

Ruling doesn’t change the fact that Edmonton city council did an end run around the democratic process, says AFL Sep 25, 2009 EDMONTON – The labour unions that launched a […]

More than 100 construction workers with an Alberta company have returned from New Brunswick, after becoming the target of angry protests by local trade unions. The workers were in the […]

Three labour unions challenged city council’s private approval of a multi-billion-dollar deal involving Epcor shares at the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench last week. The Alberta Federation of Labour, with […]

Albertans, go home. That’s the message about 100 Alberta tradesmen got from furious locals in St. John, N.B., this week, who have been staging angry demonstrations against out-of-province workers. It’s […]

EDMONTON – They carry little cocktail umbrellas to symbolize bringing people together under one roof. And on Sunday a group that advocates co-operating with the other opposition parties to take […]

EDMONTON – The controversial Epcor deal was brought back to court Friday with a coalition of union groups arguing for a judge in the Court of Queen’s Bench to review […]

A trio of labour groups took EPCOR to court today to challenge the sale of the company’s publicly owned power generation assets. The Alberta Federation of Labour, the Canadian Union […]

The law courts are the scene of a legal showdown over EPCOR today. Union groups are trying to convince a Court of Queen’s Bench judge that the city had no […]

It’ll be a long day at court tomorrow as the City of Edmonton, EPCOR and various labour unions argue whether or not the decision to privatize EPCOR’s power generation assets […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour and the city’s two largest unions will be in an Edmonton courtroom on Friday. They’ll be arguing that the privatization of EPCOR’s power generation should […]

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — Capital Power Corp.‘s purchase of electricity-generating plants from the City of Edmonton, which led to a C$500 million ($463 million) initial share sale in June, is […]

Several labour groups allege Edmonton city council broke the law when it voted behind closed doors to sell off some publicly owned assets. Lawyers for the groups will be in […]

A Court of Queen’s Bench justice will be hearing arguments tomorrow in a case launched by a group of labour organizations against the sale of EPCOR’s publicly-owned power generation assets. […]

Closed-door meetings breach Municipal Government Act, group charges in lawsuit The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench today is hearing a case that could potentially overturn the multi-billion-dollar deal that saw […]

As the ranks of the unemployed in the province continue to swell, a new report suggests Alberta’s workers are hit by an employment insurance double whammy: working longer hours to […]

Numerous trucks and employee vehicles were kept out of the Safeway distribution centre by striking workers on Labour Day, an act the Alberta Labour Relations Board deemed “unlawful” late Monday […]

True to their word, an environmental coalition has filed suit in California challenging the recent U.S. presidential permit granted to a controversial pipeline running from Alberta across the Canada-U.S. border […]