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Federal budget skills training plan embraced by Alberta business groups
CALGARY – Alberta business groups say a rejigged skills training program included in the most recent federal budget could offer some relief for the province’s tight labour market. Travis Davies […]
Read more »Hiring of temporary foreign workers raises hackles in Alberta
Significant numbers of temporary foreign workers continued to move to Alberta even as the economy shed jobs during the recession, says a new report from the province’s largest labour group. […]
Read more »‘This budget will bite’: Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON – There’s no denying the public sector took a hit in the 2013 Alberta Budget. In fact, Gil McGowan, the President of the Alberta Federation of Labour claims Thursday’s […]
Read more »Braid: Alberta Tories losing trust as rivals smell blood
/CALGARY — As the legislature opens today with the provincial budget ready for Thursday delivery, a new poll suggests the government has lost the trust of many Albertans. Sensing weakness, […]
Read more »Alberta’s largest unions warn of cuts to public service
/Days ahead of the provincial budget, Alberta’s largest unions are calling on Premier Alison Redford to avoid Ralph Klein-like cuts to the public service in a bid to balance the […]
Read more »Update: Alberta unions denounce ‘Klein-style cuts’ coming in budget
/EDMONTON – In a show of unity, nurses, teachers and labour groups joined Monday to condemn “Klein-style cuts” they say are coming to public services in Thursday’s provincial budget. Premier […]
Read more »Alberta Budget: Labour Leaders Don’t Want Public Services Cut
/EDMONTON – Labour leaders in Alberta have joined forces to say they don’t want to see public services cuts in Thursday’s provincial budget. The group consists of the Alberta Federation […]
Read more »Bitumen upgrading should be top priority: AFL
/In front of a government panel on Tuesday, a labour group argued in favour of increasing refining operations in Alberta, instead of sending unprocessed bitumen to foreign refineries. Alberta Federation […]
Read more »Bitumen upgrading should be top priority: AFL
/In front of a government panel on Tuesday, a labour group argued in favour of increasing refining operations in Alberta, instead of sending unprocessed bitumen to foreign refineries. Alberta Federation […]
Read more »Redford accused of picking a fight with labour
/Alberta Premier Alison Redford, desperate to cut costs amid a ballooning deficit, is angering the very labour groups she coveted for support during her leadership bid and last year’s election. […]
Read more »Advocates spar over government investment in new bitumen upgraders
/Report says Alberta will be upgrading 26 per cent of bitumen by 2025 EDMONTON – A labour group on Tuesday urged a government committee to support construction of new upgraders […]
Read more »Renewable in Ottawa
/When Peter Julian visited his in-laws in Shandong province in 2011, he was struck by skies which, depending on weather, either were grey, or grey and wet. The New Democratic […]
Read more »Alberta on pace for $3.5-$4 billion deficit: finance minister
/A $2.4 billion drop in resource revenue has put Alberta on pace for a deficit of between $3.5- and $4 billion — one of the highest deficits in history, Finance […]
Read more »Alberta on pace for $3.5-$4 billion deficit: finance minister
/A $2.4 billion drop in resource revenue has put Alberta on pace for a deficit of between $3.5- and $4 billion — one of the highest deficits in history, Finance […]
Read more »P3s, other alternative financing on Alberta government’s radar
/The Redford government’s promise to keep building Alberta despite budget woes and bitumen bubbles could lead the province to embrace alternative financing to pay for high-priority construction projects. Premier Alison […]
Read more »P3s, other alternative financing on Alberta government’s radar
/The Redford government’s promise to keep building Alberta despite budget woes and bitumen bubbles could lead the province to embrace alternative financing to pay for high-priority construction projects. Premier Alison […]
Read more »Province refuses to release unsafe employer information
/Ignores recommendation from freedom of information commissioner Alberta Human Services refuses to release information that would identify the province’s most unsafe, “high-risk employers,” effectively brushing off a ruling by the […]
Read more »Report says time running out for Canadian oil producers to access Pacific Rim
/CALGARY – A research paper is reinforcing the idea that Canada’s resource industry is at risk of being left behind internationally if it doesn’t find a way to get oil […]
Read more »Oil price gap a handy excuse for strapped governments
/According to experts inside Alberta Energy, it’s much more profitable to refine more of our oil before we ship it. Both the Alberta and federal governments are now pointing to […]
Read more »Sales tax discussion dominates economic summit
/CALGARY — Premier Alison Redford was ready to declare the inaugural Alberta economic summit a success Saturday even without a consensus from the prominent Albertans who spent the day hashing […]
Read more »We need pipelines, not pipe dreams
/With all the discussion recently over the lack of so-called value-added jobs, one might wonder why that debate is confined to one sector of the economy. For example, in 2010-2011, […]
Read more »Gil McGowan gives the best advice at Alison Redford’s summit
/With academics and everyone but the Tories themselves realizing that the government is too dependent on energy royalties, it was obvious Saturday’s economic summit was little more than a feel-good […]
Read more »Taxes, service cuts hot topics at Redford’s economic summit
/CALGARY – Premier Alison Redford’s first economic summit primed Albertans for a consumption tax, foreshadowed coming service cuts and reiterated the need to access new markets for oilsands products. Virtually […]
Read more »Much talk of sales tax at economic summit, but Redford says ‘nowhere near’ that
/CALGARY – Alberta Premier Alison Redford says a sales tax isn’t on the agenda, even though many of the panellists at an economic summit that her government convened Saturday said […]
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