Alberta

2 Minutes

Canada Labour

Education workers at Buffalo Trail schools win big wage increase, set tone for other Alberta school districts

PV December 1, 2023

PV staff Alberta is a tough place for education workers. Per student funding is lowest among provinces in Canada, while the student-to-educator ratio is highest. At the same time, wages are low, with the...

4 Minutes

Canada

A healthcare plan designed to fail

PV November 10, 2023

PV Alberta Bureau The Danielle Smith government’s plan to ditch Alberta Health Services and create four different agencies to replace it is absurd, self-contradictory and obviously just plain stupid. That is, if you assume...

2 Minutes

Canada

Alberta health restructuring is a plan for privatization

PV November 9, 2023

Friends of Medicare warns that UCP proposal “will only make things worse” PV staff In response to the Alberta government’s plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services (AHS) – a plan leaked to and released...

3 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Alberta wildfires fuelled by government cutbacks

PV October 2, 2023

By Corinne Benson During the Alberta election this spring, one of my door-knocking lines was that the debate between the two major contenders – the New Democratic Party and the United Conservative Party –...