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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
