Labour & Employment in Alberta

Brooklyn 99 is a police comedy series that has just released its final season on Netflix. The first episode (“ The Good Ones ”) deals with ...

Alberta finally released its annual report on injuries and fatalities for 2019 . Some of the key findings are that, from 2017 to 2019: Lost-...

This post was originally published on the AU Hub  in conjunction with the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Sex Workers. It i...

Source: D'Arcy Norman, Wikipedia Commons Last week, I ran across an OHS order directed at the University of Calgary. Apparently, the U ...

I recently had the… opportunity?... to watch a few episodes of CBC’s Frankie Drake Mysteries series. The series centres on an all-female de...

In December, AU opened a new course ( LBST 415: Sex work and sex workers ). One focus of the course is how governments regulate sex work a...

I recently finished two sci-fi westerns by Alex Wells in which a union made an appearance. Hunger Makes the Wolf (2017) and Blood Binds t...

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

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Peacock Skeleton with Crooked Feathers” by Blood Brothers. It is a bit hard to know ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at “Death to my Hometown” by Bruce Springsteen. This Celtic-infused (and very angr...

Rainy summer days are a nice time for TV. I have been working my way through the Netflix series Damnation . The series is set in the rural...

It's summer and, honestly, I got nothing left this week so enjoy some Star Wars-related labour stuff. Especially the mission statement...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Mining for Gold”, most famously performed by the Cowboy Junkies. The very haunting...

To start the new year of Labour & Pop Culture, we return to NBC’s comedy Superstore. Last year they had an interesting storyline about ...

Continuing our look at Bill 30 ( An Act to Protect the Health and Well-being of Working Albertans ), today I wanted to examine new rules a...

Last week, Alberta introduced and passed (!)  Bill 19, An Act to Protect Gas and Convenience Store Workers . This legislation requires cus...