Labour & Employment in Alberta

In late June, the federal government announced it had signed new labour market training agreements with Alberta worth $1.7 billion over the...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture features “Boiled Frogs” by Alexisonfire. The song is about the monotony of work and ho...

The summer issue of Labor Law Journal carried an interesting article about the state of mandatory retirement practices in Canada. “ The U...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Hard Working Hands” by Dave Gunning and Ron Hynes. The song is about the end of a ...

One of the things that came out of the weekend workers' compensation conference I attended was a discussion of how difficult re-employm...

Last spring, the government rolled out a new human resources strategy to meet the expected demand for workers in Alberta. One of the initiat...

Over the holidays I worked my way through a few books. Most were trashy fiction but I did run across The Coming Population Crash while wand...

The Edmonton Journal has an interesting story today about generational differences in income and prospects . Now, I’ve done my fair share of...

Today the government of Alberta announced a new action plan for ensuring mature workers stay in the labour force longer as one way to addre...