Alberta

6 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Alberta’s open-pit coal mining plan must be stopped!

PV December 9, 2020

By Corinne Benson Spread your legs Alberta. Australian mining corporations are already preparing to open-pit mine in the Bighorn area of the Rocky Mountains. Since 1976 the Coal Development Policy has guided land use...

2 Minutes

Canada

Kenney: a blood-sucking profiteer (literally)

PV November 10, 2020

In 1972, the impoverished and oppressed people of Nicaragua suffered a terrible crisis when an earthquake struck the capital of Managua. An estimated 5000 people were killed, and the city centre was destroyed. International...

4 Minutes

Labour

Alberta wildcat: a strike against Kenney’s “triple attack” on working people

PV October 27, 2020

Hospital workers in Alberta have been ruled back to work by a court injunction, after an impressive wildcat strike at hospitals across the province. The militant action, which began on October 26, is in...

4 Minutes

Labour Podcast

Alberta’s Bill 32: a sweeping attack on worker’s rights

PV July 23, 2020

[buzzsprout episode=’4969325′ player=’true’] By Lana Smidt On July 7, the United Conservative Party government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act. It’s a massive omnibus bill that amends...