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The Year of Bargaining Diplomatically
Public-sector negotiations in the Notley era
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Teachers’ Association, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Alberta Views, Alison Redford, Alvin Finkel, Athabasca, Athabasca University, Budget Cuts, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Chamber of Commerce, Collective Bargaining, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, Guy Smith, Health Sciences Association of Alberta, Joe Ceci, Mediation, Nursing, Paramedics, Progressive Conservative Party, Registered Nurse, Socialism, St. Albert, Supreme Court, Teacher Strike, Teachers, Unions, United Nurses of Alberta
May 1, 2018
Christina Gray
AV: Far more Albertans are workers than employers, but our culture really celebrates “the entrepreneur”—the job creator, the employer. What do you think about this? Well, we need both. A source of frustration for me has been workplace legislation that wasn’t up-to-date. Employers will always work within the framework they have to maximize their […]
Tags: Capital investment, Christina Gray, Evan Osenton, Food Banks, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Tax Credit
Essential Workers’ Right to Strike
A dialogue between Marni Soucoff and Bob Barnetson
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Debate, Essential Workers, Labour Costs, Pros and Cons, Public Safety, Rule of Law, Strike, Supreme Court, Teacher Strike, Thomas Lukaszuk, Wildcat Strike
The Gig Economy
When Edmonton rock radio station The Bear planned to broadcast an all-night Halloween contest from a graveyard, they wanted 22-year-old student Andy Ferguson to work the shift. Ferguson had already worked that morning and he really didn’t want to do the “graveyard shift” too—but then, who ever does? You do it because you need the […]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Artificial Intelligence, Crown Corporation, Daycare, Dental Care, Gig Economy, Globalization, Labour Market, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Student Debt
Diplomatic Links
Where low score wins.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Barack Obama, Brian Mulroney, Donald Trump, Fred Stenson, Free Trade, Golf Courses, Hockey, Jean Chretien, Joe Clark, Justin Trudeau, Kim Campbell, Mar-a-Lago, North America Trade Agreement, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, Stephen Harper
April 1, 2018
Deliverance from Flood
Pitting city against country
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alberta's Floodplains, Bow River, Canadian Press, Canadian Rockies, Diamond Valley, Floods, Highwood, Homeowners, Hurricanes, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Newspapers, Reservoir, Rivers, Rocky Mountains, Saddledome, Transalta, Tsuut'ina Nation, Turner Valley, University of Saskatchewan
Big Muddy
I needed to connect with the brother I’d grown up with
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bipolar, CUPE, Cycling, Facebook, Foster Care, Ice Age, Lesbian, LGBTQ, Mental Illness, Panhandlers, Social Media
You Can’t Stay Here
Frank O’Connor, the great Irish author, described a writer as one who sets a mirror in the roadway and then goes about describing what he or she sees reflected there. Edmonton author Jasmina Odor discerns many things in her mirror, an important one being the nature of time itself: its effects on people and the […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Croatia, Jasmina Odor, Thistledown Press
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