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Nearly 12K AB men lost their full-time jobs in Oct 2025

Also, Alberta dropped to third place for median full-time wages.

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AB saw 1,400 more family doctor registrations last quarter

They received only 80 more in the previous quarter.

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14 AB hospitals lost their ER in September 2025

Two of these emergency departments were closed for over 400 hours.

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Lethbridge drug deaths drop in first half of 2025

During the first two quarters of 2025, drug-related deaths dropped to their lowest levels in years. But there is a recent change in data that might be a concern.

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Alberta gained 42,500 jobs in Sep 2025

But they lost nearly 31,000 jobs in July and August, so this is not as large of an increase as it first appears. And most of them were part-time.

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19 AB hospitals lost their ER in August 2025

5 of those hospitals have ongoing closures. Plus, two other communities lost ambulatory care.

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Teens a minority of AB min. wage workers in 2024

There’s a persistent myth in Alberta that minimum wage workers are mostly teenagers. Except, this just isn’t true.

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Alberta lost over 30,000 jobs this summer

They were all men, and all in the private sector.

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AHS shut down the ER in 17 hospitals in July 2025

5 of those hospitals have ongoing closures.

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Alberta lost nearly 40,000 FT jobs in July 2025

And our unemployment rate is the highest it has been since October 2021.

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