When the UCP was first elected in 2019, cuts were immediately on the menu. One of the government’s first acts was to assemble a team of capitalist representatives to “investigate” the impacts of the $15 minimum wage. But when the investigation concluded, the government hid its report for three years.

Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands facility has been leaking tailings wastewater, which risks seeping into the groundwater and nearby streams. The initial leak was ignored by the company for nine months without any notification of the incident to the public.

It’s no secret that orphan oil and gas wells in Alberta have been a growing environmental concern for quite some time. Farmers and rural municipalities have been struggling to cope with derelict equipment and the hazards that come with it, but little has been done to mitigate this problem. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has recently announced a pilot project based on a proposal from lobbyists: the RStar program, which would give $20 billion to oil companies to “incentivize” cleanup of the abandoned wells that litter the province. 

Despite near unanimous opposition, Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party (UCP) government have decided to go ahead with the plans to establish a provincial police force in Alberta. This move is expensive, as well as extremely unpopular among all layers of the province, with the exception of a very small minority.

Loblaw is raking in massive profits, yet doesn’t seem to have anything to spare for its workers. The Calgary union busting is simply the most recent example of the miserliness that made Loblaw an empire and the Westons the third richest family in Canada.

The recent stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation stands as one of the deadliest murder sprees in Canadian history. Such a senseless act of violence sent waves of shock and horror across the country. At least it did—for a few days. Despite the general public still having more questions than answers, media coverage has stopped […]

On Oct. 6, the United Conservative Party (UCP) will have a new leader and Alberta a new premier. The Alberta ruling class is hoping that the result of the UCP leadership race will bring the political stability they sorely need to weather a turbulent economy and prepare the party for the May 2023 election. After […]

Defence lawyers working for Legal Aid Alberta (LAA) have ceased taking on new legal aid cases as of Sept. 26. Hundreds of lawyers across the province have raised a number of reasons why they cannot continue legal aid work, including a lack of adequate pay, lack of resources, and chronic lack of government funding for […]

A recent article from a political scientist at the University of Alberta confirms what many ordinary people already realize: the Alberta government works for the rich energy capitalists. In the article, research fellow Robert L. Asch examines how a small number of oil barons are increasingly dominating the provincial oil industry. Private ownership over this […]

Thomas Dang, an Alberta provincial MLA, has been in a months-long limbo, out of the NDP caucus due to an unusual police investigation of hacking and whistleblowing. Dang was the youngest MLA ever elected when he won his seat in Edmonton-South in 2015 and had been working under the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) until […]