Nothing says “Thank you health care heroes!” like a wage cut. After 16 months of fighting a global pandemic, Alberta nurses are faced with a proposed three per cent wage roll back in an effort to “get the province’s finances back on track” according to United Conservative Party (UCP) Finance Minister Travis Toews. Combined with […]

The UCP, in their quest to make the working class pay for the crisis, are even prepared to wreak havoc on public health care. Alberta’s doctors are threatening to leave the province en masse in the wake of a long-running dispute with the UCP government. Many began to warn that they were considering leaving due […]

Alberta’s post-secondary institutions have been hit with back-to-back cuts by the UCP government. After the MacKinnon report was used to greenlight attacks on public education in 2019, operational funding for post-secondary was drastically cut partway through the academic year, followed by a 6.3 per cent cut in 2020, and a further 5.4 per cent cut […]

Under pressure from his fringe anti-lockdown base, and from rebellious MLAs inside his own party, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has fanned the flames of the third wave. By the beginning of May, Alberta held the dubious honor of having the highest per capita case rate of COVID-19 in all of North America. The third wave […]

Black gold Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) is fond of talking about the oil fields. Sometimes it feels like it’s all they talk about. But their attention has shifted to another black gold: coal.  Years of downturns, tax cuts, and layoffs in the oil sector—which in 2013 provided $2.48 billion in royalties—have left thousands of […]

The people of Lethbridge, Alberta are fed up with their city’s police service after a string of abuses of power. From surveilling an NDP politician to forcing a domestic abuse survivor into a sexual relationship, the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) are using their power to stalk, surveil, and abuse people with little to no consequences. […]

The Ontario population is reacting with extreme anger due to the government’s failure to take necessary action to stop the third wave. This sentiment is felt in province after province. Everybody knows that essential workplaces populated by poor and racialized workers are the main location of spread – everybody except the government that is. Instead […]

On Feb. 25, the United Conservative Party (UCP) government delivered Alberta’s provincial budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The UCP has had a disastrous term up to this point. The economy and government revenues have been hit hard by low oil prices. The party has faced scandal after scandal, most recently the campaign to stop […]

On Monday, March 15, 268 workers at the Coca-Cola Refreshments plant in northeast Calgary, Alberta, organized with Teamsters Local Union 987, went out on strike. This was announced in a release by Teamsters 987, whose members at the plant work in the warehouse, production, shipping, and equipment service.  Workers have lost job hours to third-party, […]

COVID-19 has created huge challenges for students in post-secondary, who have been forced to shift to lower quality online learning. Unfortunately for the students at the University of Alberta, instead of helping them face these new difficult circumstances, the UCP government has decided to kick them while they are down. Alberta students are facing massive […]