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Losing the will to enforce: Death of Syncrude worker reveals an …

WEBOn April 8, 2024 Syncrude was fined $390,000 and pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the health and safety of a worker under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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AHS manager tells nurses to become Tik Tok influencers to …

WEBAHS manager tells healthcare workers to become Tik Tok influencers to supplement income due to policy limiting overtime

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Jason Kenney’s brother, who ran a recovery centre shut down by …

WEBEarlier this month Premier Jason Kenney told the Calgary Chamber of Commerce an anecdote he heard from a suburban developer that a hundred families a …

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Per capita health funding in Alberta continues to erode in 2024 …

WEBSome money is to be found in the capital budgets. The budget for “recovery communities” is jumping from $60 to $167 million, an increase of 178 per cent. The …

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UCP promise to use the “pointy end of the stick” to address …

WEB“This is why the police are at the table here. They’re not to be cast aside and pushed away. Whether some folks like it or not, and I can tell you from first-hand …

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A micro victory for decency as judge puts brakes on …

WEBThe Edmonton Police Service’s and the City of Edmonton’s plan to conduct the largest homeless encampment sweep in city history just before Christmas was temporarily …

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RIP Jack Hubler, a working class legend

WEBMarch 17, 2022. Alberta’s working class lost a legend when Jack Hubler passed away on March 4, 2022 at the age of 85. A long-time business agent and member of United …

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What you need to know about Alberta's newest batch of legislation

WEBIssue #325 of the Progress Report newsletter discusses the eleven new laws pitched for this session of the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

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The Alberta Model: Who benefits from the Alberta government’s …

WEBThere have been 904 opioid poisoning deaths in Alberta in just the first 9 months of 2020, compared with 790 COVID deaths to date. There are two public health crises racking …

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Grocery store workers are critical infrastructure now

WEBGrocery store workers are the troops now. To discuss the issues facing unionized grocery store workers on the front lines in Alberta during this emergency health crisis we talk …

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Cargill broke OHS rules and locked worker reps out of COVID-19

WEBMay 09, 2020. Management at the Cargill meat packing plant in High River violated the Occupational Health and Safety Act by shutting workers out of the investigation into the …

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Alberta Budget 2024 TLDR

WEBThe government of Alberta is anticipating an “accounting surplus” of $367 million in 2024-25. This is after the government ran surpluses of $11 billion in 22-23 and $5.2 billion in …

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Edmonton health-care workers rally to honour 249 Palestinian …

WEBAround 70 health-care workers and other community members gathered at the Canadian Druze Centre in northwest Edmonton to commemorate and honour their …

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Oil company turned healthcare company got ‘significant’ COVID …

WEBOn February 26, 2020 Heavoil Tech Inc. changed its name to Equity Health Services. Just a few months later, on May 10, Equity Health Services announced it had …

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POD: Kenney gave the anti-vaxxers everything they wanted and …

WEBLorian Hardcastle, University of Calgary law professor with a specialization in health law and health policy, joins us to discuss Jason Kenney dropping the the …

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Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell’s greatest investigative …

WEBJennie Russell and Charles Rusnell were reporters with CBC Investigates, the award-winning investigative unit of CBC Edmonton until suddenly calling it quits on December …

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Black tie business elite crowd in Calgary applauds Danielle Smith …

WEBOn Feb. 15, Alberta premier Danielle Smith boasted of her government’s mass displacement of unhoused encampment residents in Edmonton to a formal black …

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The definitive history of Kevin J. Johnston: Hateful Ontario loser

WEBKevin “Jackal” Johnston is in pre-trial custody until his trial on July 12 following a series of anti-lockdown stunts in Calgary, Edmonton and Dawson Creek, BC. He’s been in the …

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Jason Kenney’s budget continues to wage war on workers

WEBSource . Jason Kenney’s 2021 budget does just that. As the province fights the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, the UCP government is saying thanks to all its front …

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