If you were looking for a good career in Alberta, who’d have thought health care management would be the ticket?
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The Alberta Advantage? For workers subject to the province’s wage suppression tactics, it’s gone like the wind
To counter Alberta’s wage slide, Economist Jim Stanford suggests boosting minimum wages by at least 15 per cent and reforming labour laws to make it easier for workers to join unions.
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Edmonton Police Commission locks its doors, retreats to the Internet, to avoid facing peaceful protesters
Well, nobody likes criticism, and this may be why, now as ever, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one!
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Anger continues to grow at university administrations and police over Palestine solidarity encampment clearances
U of A President Bill Flanagan’s departure is now clearly on the protest movement’s list of objectives. Meanwhile, former Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason weighs in on the dangers of “Liberal-land.”
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Gil McGowan, who quit NDP leadership race yesterday, was the only candidate to make an issue of the party’s relationship with workers
AFL president for nearly 20 years, Gil McGowan pitched a strategy of wooing back working-class voters.
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Alberta NDP now has more than 85,000 members, party says; Gil McGowan drops out of leadership race
Commentators credit former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi’s campaign with much of the growth.
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Were the presidents of Alberta’s two largest universities pushed to call the cops to remove Gaza protesters, or did they jump?
If they jumped, they need to be held responsible – if they were pushed, we need to know by whom.
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A timely message to our many anti-woke friends and acquaintances: Sorry about yer Rex Murphy!
If the ugly mood yesterday in that slough of despond known as X is anything to go by, Rex Murphy’s passing seems to have both unmanned and unhinged his many admirers on the right.
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It’s never too early to panic! UCP introduces bill to extend its term and ‘control everything, everywhere, all at once’
It turns out the party of habitual climate change denial can read the smouldering auguries as well as anyone.
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Naheed Nenshi’s 2019 letter asking UCP to suspend unionized Calgary employees’ contract rights sparks sharp rebukes
Instead of apologizing for making a mere mistake, the former Calgary mayor’s response seemed slippery.
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Environmental action then and now in Alberta – don’t hold your breath waiting for promises to be kept
Alberta says it has struck a new committee “to help reclaim tailings ponds” in the province’s oilsands, eventually.
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Another little flaw with Bill 20: It’s not just bad law, it’ll probably make life hell for UCP backbenchers
The Pottery Barn Rule is about to come to Alberta politics – here’s how …