Nancy Southern is the CEO of widely reviled infrastructure/utility/modular housing conglomerate ATCO. She inherited the company from her father Ron Southern, who started it in 1947. She is a billionaire because of the company she inherited. And with all that lived experience, Nancy is calling on the feds and the province to take care of who’s really struggling: multinational resource–extraction corporations.

Back in December 2022, before a final investment decision had even been made on Dow’s net-zero ethylene/polyethylene mega-project in Fort Saskatchewan, Brian Jean had already signed the ministerial order activating Division 8 of the Labour Relations Code for the project. 

In April 2023, hundreds of unionized workers were fired at the Civeo Wapasu Creek Lodge, a massive work camp that serves Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine, after the workers refused wage rollbacks. 

Climate Justice Edmonton (CJE) launched its “Right to Be Cool” campaign outside of city hall on July 11, calling on city council to ensure Edmontonians are protected from the extreme heat that’s becoming increasingly frequent. 

The dust has settled: Rachel Notley’s time as leader of the Alberta NDP is over. We’re now in the Nenshi era.

Everyone understood that Naheed Nenshi was in the lead of the ANDP leadership race, but the scale of his victory might have still been a surprise.  Nenshi hit the party like the meteor hit the dinosaurs, securing an incredible 86% of all the votes. And not by sneaking across an uncontested field, either—over 85% of active party members cast a ballot.

No more sweet Caroline. No more Moss pit. No more La Bamba, baby. The Oilers playoff run has ended with them coming up just short.

Things have gotten so bad between the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC) and the Edmonton city council that the commission has requested a third party mediator to “mend” the obviously broken relationship. But the fault lines in the breakdown between the commission and council go back many years. 

A Calgary police officer is alleging the Calgary Police Service (CPS) is covering up a colleague’s pattern of racist and harassing behaviour, which he says is damaging the police force’s credibility. 

Jeremy and Duncan review the state of the ANDP leadership race, offer their predictions, and tell you how they'd fill out their ballots today.

The Edmonton Police Association has filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board alleging that the Edmonton Police Service is contracting out police work to “private homicide investigators who are acting as private police officers.”