Labour & Employment in Alberta

A few weeks back, the Tyee ran a story on the effect of increasing levels of wildfire smoke on tree planter OHS . This story is interesting ...

CBC has an interesting new series on called The Porter. It is set in the 1920s (in Montreal, mostly) and follows a group of Black railway po...

John Oliver recently did an interesting piece on working conditions in meat-packing plants. These working conditions are broadly similar to ...

The autumn issue of Our Times magazine contained a very interesting examination of early Chinese worker militancy in BC , written by Winnie ...

I received a recent (2020) novel for Christmas entitled Always Brave, Sometimes Kind that was written by Katie Bickell. The novel is essent...

Over the holidays, I heard a Stompin’ Tom Connors song called Tillsonburg. Tillsonburg is a town located just southeast of London, Ontario a...

A recent issue of Labour/Le Travail contained a study examining the intersection of migrant workers and union renewal in Saskatchewan . This...

Researchers at Memorial University has issued a new report analyzing tax data on inter-jurisdictional employment in Canada between 2002 and...

  Athabasca University has opened a new online course. LBST 325: Labour Mobility and Migrant Workers examines various forms of labour mobil...

There have been some really good posts about the disproportionate impact of COVID 19 on racialized and migrant workers recently. In a post e...

A few years ago, I was a bit player in a pan-Canadian study of mobile work. One of the researchers in the study was Sara Dorow (University o...

A friend and I were chatting the other day about the ongoing occupational health and safety (OHS) problems at the Cargill meat-processing pl...

Statistics Canada has provided some analysis around commuting in several of Canada’s larger urban centres—comparing commuting in the 1996 a...

The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published an interesting article about the intersection between mobile work and retu...

In late May, the TV show Superstore wrapped up another season. I’ve written about Superstore before because they had a very interesting unio...

A few weeks back, the final report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls was released. While I have...

One of the long-term research projects I’ve been involved with is the On the Move partnership , which examines economic-related geographic m...

A week ago, a coalition of groups released a report addressing shortcomings in Canada’s existing Caregiver Program. This program brings for...

The Vanier Institute recently published an article about the impact of work-related mobility on family life . The study looked at workers wh...

In February, the Labourer’s International Union of North America (LiUNA) released a report entitled “The impact of Canada’s migrant worke...