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Alberta’s Bill 32: a sweeping attack on worker’s rights

By Lana Smidt On July 7, the United Conservative Party government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act. It’s a massive omnibus bill that amends six different labour and employment relations [...]

Edmonton workers fight lockout despite Kenney’s anti-labour legislation

By Sasha Colvin, Jeremy Abbott, Luis Cifuentes In the morning on June 25, just over 30 workers of Boilermaker Lodge 146 of Edmonton-based CESSCO Fabrication and Engineering found themselves served with a lockout notice after two and a half years [...]

Kenney’s sneaky approach to privatizing Alberta’s parks

By Corinne Benson Alberta’s provincial government has slated 164 provincial park sites – 37 percent of parks in the province – for closure or third-party “partnerships.” Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party also intends to remove [...]

Alberta meat industry debacle shows dangers of capitalist priorities

Profit before people? By Corinne Benson Our now-famous COVID-19 virus initially arrived through travelers on planes and cruise ships, but the source of the pandemic now seems to be “community spread,” which is really a name for workplace [...]

Extraordinary crisis, but “business” as usual in Alberta

These are extraordinary times. News feeds and ordinary working people, not surprisingly, are focussed on the pandemic, the need to combat its spread by physical distancing, and the daily struggle to maintain life and supply the health system under [...]

Kenney and COVID-19: Alberta’s double whammy

PV Alberta Bureau Energy price wars and global pandemics would be a challenge for any economy. Price wars, pandemics and Jason Kenney’s budget are a recipe for disaster. Kenney has come out with a budget that would have been bad for Albertans [...]

Alberta labour pushes back against Kenney cuts

By Jim Felix When Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) ended Alberta's brief period of NDP government last year, the province's labour movement knew that tougher times were on the way. Unlike the era of Ralph Klein's spending cuts in [...]

Alberta Communists issue open letter on U of A controversy about Ukrainian famine

The Communist Party – Alberta has issued an open letter commending the University of Alberta for resisting calls to dismiss sessional lecturer Dougal MacDonald over his comments that the Ukrainian famine was not a genocide. MacDonald made the [...]

After Kenney’s Victory, the Struggle in Alberta Continues

The election of Jason Kenney and the UCP is bad news.

Alberta Communists Campaign for Fundamental Change

The only electoral force on the left is the Communist Party-Alberta.