Alberta

4 Minutes

Canada Labour

Danielle Smith’s CPP plan jeopardizes workers’ pensions in Alberta and right across Canada

PV December 6, 2023

PV editorial Alberta’s hard right premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party (UCP) government are playing a dangerous game when it comes to their proposal to pull the province […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...