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Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs received $1.6B in 2024

Alberta saw 11 CEOs make the top 100 list, compared to just 14 in 2023. And most of them were in the energy sector.

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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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AB min. wage workers in 2023 weren’t mostly teens

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

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Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs received $1.3B in 2023

Alberta saw 14 CEOs make the top 100 list, compared to just 11 in 2020. And most of them were in the energy sector.

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AB saw lowest rise in total income in 2021

Between 2020 and 2021, combined declared employment income, according to CRA tax statistics, increased by 0.51%, the smallest increase of all the provinces.

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Opinion

What are real wages?

The concept of real wages serves as a pivotal indicator of the material conditions of the working class within a capitalist society. Real wages not only reflect the purchasing power of labour but also unveil the inherent contradictions and exploitation embedded within the capitalist mode of production. Capitalism as a system is characterized by the […]

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Thousands of Alberta workers lose 0.5% raise

That’s another blow to workers whose wages haven’t kept up with inflation for years.

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Alberta had largest real wages cut in Canada

The average hourly wages in Alberta haven’t been growing as quickly as they once did. As a result, we now have only the third highest wages in the country and they’re rising slower than inflation.

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Chestermere workers get 5% raise

Most of the municipal workers are covered by this new contract, which is actually the first contract they’ve seen since unionizing in 2022.

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Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs were paid $1.5B in 2022

Alberta saw 14 CEOs make the top 100 list, compared to just 11 in 2020. And most of them were in the energy sector.

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