Tag: Trade and Globalization
Canada-European Free Trade Agreement undermines Canadian workers
Deal will provide yet another avenue for employers to choose foreign workers over Canadians EDMONTON – The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) signed between Canada and the European Union […]
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 »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 »Alberta Federation of Labour cites ‘strong economic case’ to refine bitumen here
/EDMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour says the discounted price Alberta bitumen is fetching of the world market could provide an opportunity for more upgrading and additional jobs in […]
Read more »Northern Gateway Hearings: Vancouver Pipeline Protesters Greet Enbridge Panel
/VANCOUVER – The nationwide Idle No More movement merged with ongoing protests against oil pipeline projects proposed for British Columbia, to bring more than a thousand protesters out to greet […]
Read more »Chinese SOE Snatching Foreign Energy Companies
/During the last month of 2012, Christian Paradis, Canada’s minister of industry, announced on behalf of the Canadian government the approval of the $15.1 billion acquisition of Nexen Inc. by […]
Read more »AFL on PRC: Labour group weighs in on China’s energy interests
/The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) has added its voice to those worried about the ramifications of Canada’s role in China’s energy plans. Following Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s approval of […]
Read more »Nexen-China deal not without risk, conference told
/The federal government’s new rules around foreign investment by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) could potentially result in less investment in the Alberta oilsands and that could make it more expensive to […]
Read more »China’s largest-ever overseas deal shook oilpatch, Ottawa in 2012
CALGARY – Nexen Inc. began 2012 as a troubled oil and gas company struggling to meet its production targets and appease its shareholders. It ends the year on the brink […]
Read more »Highlights from the Joint Review Panel Technical Hearings on Economics
The technical hearings on economic issues raised by the Northern Gateway pipeline recently concluded in Edmonton. In these quasi-judicial hearings, Enbridge and intervenors (labour organizations, First Nations, environmental NGOs and […]
Read more »Reality Check: Profits, Prices, and Access to Markets
Reality Check: Profits, Prices, and Access to Markets Alberta is producing too much of the wrong product; no mystery why oil companies are getting a low price. The Government of […]
Read more »Government of Alberta does not consider jobs, taxes, royalties, or the public interest in their evidence at Northern Gateway hearings
Government of Alberta does not consider jobs, taxes, royalties, or the public interest in their evidence at Northern Gateway hearings Edmonton – AFL President Gil McGowan will be available to […]
Read more »Northern Gateway pipeline will not be Canadian infrastructure – it will be Chinese infrastructure
AFL on witness stand at Northern Gateway hearings; President available to speak to media after testimony ends Edmonton – AFL President Gil McGowan resumes his time on the witness stand […]
Read more »Enbridge, union clash over bitumen pipeline project
/Bitumen pipeline placement Comments made by the late Peter Lougheed hung over public hearings Monday about a pipeline that would ship bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to Asian markets. Both sides […]
Read more »Canadian price of crude oil would rise with the creation of Northern Gateway pipeline
/Listen to the first segment of Part 3 of CBC’s “As It Happens” for Tuesday, September 4th titled “Northern Gateway Hearings. The Alberta Federation of Labour says the Enbridge pipeline […]
Read more »Enbridge challenged on pipeline benefits
/Forecasts are too rosy; critics claim Enbridge faced tough questions Wednesday on its predictions that more than $300 billion in economic benefits will flow from its proposed $6-billion pipeline to […]
Read more »Enbridge Gateway pipeline would cost jobs in Alberta says Union
/Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada’s Pacific Coast could cost thousands of high-paying refining jobs in Alberta, a labour group warned in Edmonton on Tuesday as the company […]
Read more »Our Chinese oil sands
/Nexen could be just the beginning… In June, the Alberta government launched a website publicly outing employers who haven’t paid their workers—an online hall of shame. Among these “deadbeat bosses,” […]
Read more »Heated debate from government, business, union leaders to Nexen takeover news
/Federal government to review deal The proposed takeover of Calgary petroleum producer Nexen Inc. by a Chinese state-owned oil company sparked a fiery debate Monday, with the Alberta government welcoming […]
Read more »July 2011: Tories give billions of dollars and thousands of jobs away; Alberta Dubai of the North; ethical shopping website; CETA
Alberta Tories give away billions of dollars and thousands of jobs The Alberta Progressive Conservative government’s management of the energy industry and provincial finances has come under fire from the […]
Read more »2002 April Presentation Public Hearings on the G8 Summit Agenda and the North American Relationship
2002 April Presentation Public Hearings on the G8 Summit Agenda and the North American Relationship
Read more »300 Alberta industrial jobs to be lost at Celanese
Alberta Federation of Labour President Kerry Barrett was highly critical of the lack of any government industrial strategy in the wake of the announced closure of the Celanese Canada plant […]
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