Labour & Employment in Alberta

Earlier this week, the Parkland Institute released a report that I contributed to, entitled Thumb on the scale: Alberta government interfere...

Alberta has released its 2023 annual report for the part of the government that was at one time called Labour and that relate to Albertans ...

Andrew Stevens and Doug Nesbitt recently published an article entitled “ Refinery town in the petrostate: organized labour confronts the oil...

  Alberta Views recent published an article I wrote about the UCP's record on labour issues. The article reprises and extends a chapter...

Netflix is currently airing a documentary titled Money Shot: The Pornhub Story . This documentary examines, among other things, the way in w...

Yesterday, Athabasca University terminated the employment of its president , Peter Scott, and appointed the dean of health disciplines as it...

Yesterday, Athabasca University and the government finally agreed upon a new Investment Management Agreement (IMA). This IMA purports to add...

Back in September, I blogged about how Alberta’s OHS inspectors seemed unwilling to address uncontrolled aerosol hazards in a workplace. My...

Earlier this summer, I wrote about a fight between Athabasca University (on the one hand) and the government and residents of the town of A...

Recently, I blogged about how the UCP’s changes to joint health and safety committees has basically rendered them ineffective. I used the e...

Students are typically taught research methods as a very formal process. Basically, the literature yields hypotheses that we then test to co...

CBC recently ran a very interesting first-person account from a Calgary welder about his experiences in the oil-and-gas sector. You can read...

 As Labour Day rolls around, I’ve been giving some thought to the two-and-half years I spent as a worker rep on Athabasca University’s joint...