Unions are just groups of working people who pool their modest individual strength to bargain with employers to ensure a fair share of the great wealth they create ends up in the hands of ordinary families.
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Guest post by Steve Bradshaw: Is a regional transit system really a good deal for Edmonton?
Advice about the Edmonton Metropolitan Transit Services Commission from the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 569: maybe municipalities should take their money and run!
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Doug Schweitzer quits, effective midnight last night, tosses hot potato to UCP
If the new UCP leader who replaces Jason Kenney doesn’t have a seat in the Legislature, there’s no way she’ll want to run in a by-election she could lose with unpredictable political consequences before the general election.
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Lizard brain or legacy? Why is Jason Kenney, soon to be history, announcing big plans for Alberta’s latest windfall?
What makes Jason Kenney think he gets to decide what will be done with the $13.4 billion surging resource revenues have bestowed upon Alberta’s books?
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A spectre is haunting the UCP – the spectre of Rachel Notley – and it made for a dull ‘debate’
The prospect of an NDP victory in the general election expected next spring, personified by former premier and Opposition leader Notley, loomed over the seven candidates on the stage at downtown Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre.
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Conservative cancel culture is alive and well in the UCP’s Alberta – the War on Labour Day must end!
Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party are trying to cancel our Labour Day weekend. So they’ve created the bogus Alberta Day non-holiday.
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The insults hurled at Chrystia Freeland Friday are nothing new: Alberta’s UCP has long encouraged such abuse
The right wing in Alberta generally and the UCP in particular have encouraged ugly attacks on politicians and activists, especially women, who advocate ideas unpopular with the right.
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Minister’s demand substantially unchanged on move of Athabasca University executives, many staff, to town 145 kilometres north of Edmonton
Demetrios Nicolaides indicated yesterday he hasn’t changed his mind about requiring Athabasca University’s nine top executives to move to the town of Athabasca by 2025.
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One culture war, two cities, three statues, and two levels of government: a tale of two solitudes, perhaps
Given its inherently political nature, a surprising amount of public sculpture ends up in storage, outright exile, or subject to modifications to hide very public private parts.
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Jason Kenney’s strange obsessions: Winston Churchill, John A. Macdonald, and needlessly stirring up division
If Jason Kenney wants us all to think of him every morning and every night after he’s gone, it would be less expensive in every way if he’d just offer us all a free toothbrush and a roll of floss!
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Splish-splash! Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe channels UCP frontrunner Danielle Smith’s cynical Sovereignty Act performance
Something seems to be making provincial politicians act like they can just snap their fingers and make the federal government go away. It’s probably not in the water.
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Alberta is calling, again: Top-notch education at the U of A! (Never mind how we’re trying to bring it down a notch or two …)
This weekend Alberta Premier Kenney tweeted about the University of Alberta’s ranking on a list of the world’s top universities. Who knew that irony was part of the Alberta Advantage?