Labour & Employment in Alberta

CBC Calgary has being doing a series on farm worker safety. Here are links to the three videos they've done: Lack of WCB coverage Mi...

CBC has posted a video tour of migrant worker living quarters in Alberta (a 2010 video). The quality of the video bad but there is lots of ...

A reader sent me a link to a column from the Winnipeg Free Press on drug testing . It makes for fairly compelling reading around the issue o...

A new film The End of Immigration will be shown at the Edmonton International Film Festival at noon on September 30. This documentary look...

Alberta is the only province that continues to deny Alberta’s ~12,000 farm workers basic safety rights, such as the right t...

Last week I was on CBC discussing random drug testing, noting that there was no evidence random drug testing reduced injuries. You can see a...

Last week, I appeared in a CBC call in show about the implementation of random drug testing among Suncor employees as part of the ...