#Canlab

It is important to recognize how much work and labour is at the centre of our politics. The rail strike, teachers disputes, crown strikes, coop, strikes in universities and colleges,

On this day each year we celebrate the gains unions/workers have made. The struggles of working people to have better working conditions, safer workplaces, decent wages and benefits. This year

We are calling for a public apology from Premier Jason Kenney after UCP MLA Shane Getson accused over one million Albertans who applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)

Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, famously said "always accuse your enemies of what you are doing yourself." That's exactly what's going on with Jason Kenney's union-busting Bill 32. It's the

The UCP are pressing ahead on their agenda to create an Alberta Pension Plan, despite devastating new information revealing additional and significant underperformance at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)#ableg

Internal government documents obtained by our caucus reveal the grave financial risk to Albertans if @jkenney moves ahead with his plans to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan. #ableg

PM admits Canada no longer has vaccine production capability. That's because we privatized Connaught Labs—which contributed brilliantly to medical advances, incl development of polio vaccine. (see my book “The Sport

The UCP’s fiscal update shows their plan had nearly doubled the deficit while failing to create jobs or grow the economy even before the COVID-19 pandemic. #ableg #cdnpoli #canlab The

I'm going to start a daily series on everything the pandemic has taught us. (Well many of these are things we already knew, but #COVID19 has confirmed them.)Day 1: Austerity

As someone who has been researching and monitoring the downgrading, standardization and privatization of public education since the early 90s, I’m caught between being heartsick at the lives upended, the

3k workers (20-69 yrs) perished in #CdnPoli pandemic @CPHO_Canada. Hard to get good official #OSH info . Using #ONpoli @WSIB injury reports & PHU data from @TOPublicHealth & http://covid-19.ontario.ca to estimate

Last weekend @NDP convention delegates adopted a constitutional amendment on labour affiliation & convention delegate entitlement. In this , I try to make sense of the change by providing some