Teamsters want to unionize workers at trucking company
The union is trying to organize all the workers at the Edmonton-based company.
Transcript: Frances Widdowson lecture at U of L
Frances Widdowson, who became a free speech advocate after being fired from Mount Royal University in 2022, spoke at the University of Lethbridge recently.
How many oil & gas jobs have the UCP created?
It’s been nearly 4 years since the UCP got a kick at the can. How many new jobs have been created in an industry that’s seeing record oil production?
Filling in the gaps from AB’s energy minister update
Alberta’s new energy minister had a lot of positive things to say about Alberta’s oil and gas sector. But what about everything he left out?
AB paid out $20M to current & former MLAs in 2021–22
This is about $93,000 less than the previous year.
AB had 2nd worst payroll employee growth under UCP
PEI grew their workforce 4.5 times faster than Alberta, despite having a corporate income tax rate that’s double of what Alberta has.
Lethbridge has fewer doctors now than when the NDP were in power
Lethbridge doctors are responsible for 77 more people than they were 3 years ago.
Did Alberta really lose 180,000 jobs under Rachel Notley?
Kim Siever investigates this claim that the UCP keep making.
CUPE trying to unionize 45 care workers
The owner tried to get rid of the unionized workers when they contracted out to a third party, but the tables may have turned.
UCP awards surgery contracts to party donor after years of lobbying
Prior to these contracts, all publicly-funded orthopedic surgeries occurred in AHS facilities.
It’s been 2 years since the Lethbridge SCS closed. Are things better?
New data for the two years since the SCS closed was shut down due to cancelled government funding shows a relationship between SCS usage in Lethbridge and the number of drug deaths seen in Lethbridge.
AB university grads least likely to have a job
Compared to the other 9 provinces in Canada, Alberta saw the smallest increase in the number of university-educated workers employed in the province, since the UCP gained power.
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