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 year, the Alberta government issued a request for expressions of interest for the sale of several public registries. According to the REOI documents, the sale would be for a 35-year contract “to modernize, operate and maintain the Province’s Land Titles, Corporate and Personal Property Registries”. The three registries generated a combined $123.6 million […]
Since 1908, Lethbridge’s average temperature has increased and its annual precipitation has decreased.
The Alberta government announces this week that they plan to outsource low-risk ophthalmology surgeries to what they call “chartered surgical facilities”.
The right has taken upon themselves the title of defenders of liberty. Except they don’t actually defend personal liberty.
That’s more than the area of all the oil sands and the entire provincial parks system combined.
How Rachael Harder, MP for Lethbridge, voted in the most recent sitting of the House of Commons.
Last month, I wrote a news story regarding the Alberta government awarding the contract of lab testing services to a private company after lobbying from a firm the company had hired. Last week, I received collective bargaining agreements between the private company, DynaLIFE, and the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, as well as between HSAA […]
This marks two months of repeated closures in multiple communities, primarily in rural Alberta.
The UCP have borrowed nearly $17 billion a year since being in power, 36% more than the NDP borrowed.
Full-time jobs were down by 37,000. Part-time jobs were up by 36,800.