The Alberta WorkerKim Siever is an independent queer journalist based in Lethbridge, Alberta, and writes daily news articles, focusing on politics and labour.
Earlier this week, Forum Research released the results of a new poll, and it shows the the Conservative Party 3 points ahead of the Liberal Party. The telephone survey found that if an election were held the day of the poll (15 August 2021), 31% of the 1,203 respondents would vote for the CPC and […]
Alberta workers making the province’s median wage could better afford the cost of living in 2020 than they could in 2000.
Vast majority of voters in all major parties want large corporations and the rich to pay more in taxes.
One of the communities had their emergency department closed 13 times.
Plus, he donated over $2,000 to Tyler Shandro’s 2019 election campaign.
Lethbridge has seen 25 drug-related deaths so far in 2021. That beats out every other year except last year, but we’re on track to beating that, too.
Tourmaline Oil Corp., a Calgary-based oil and gas company, has been meeting with Alberta government officials since last summer asking them to consider making changes to municipal taxes. According to the Alberta Lobbyist Registry, the company hired the Toronto-based lobbying firm Counsel Public Affairs Inc. last August. Two days later, CPA filed an initial return […]
The federal government partnered with two energy companies to make the more than $750,000 investment possible.
The month before, it lost 37,000 full-time jobs.
With the NDP polling better than they were in 2019 and the Liberals holding onto a minority government, can Trudeau win again if an election is held this autumn?