Maybe it’s Danielle Smith that’s finally going to get to the bottom of this chemtrail business. 

Anti-genocide campaigners are calling for Edmontonians to act now to avoid having water meters installed in their homes made by an Israeli company that profits from the ongoing genocide and apartheid taking place in Palestine.

Jeremy Appel has a story for us this week that you have to read. It’s investigative reporting on what privatizing healthcare looks like in real time. The headline: AHS pressured health-care workers to transfer mentally ill patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart.

Since 2021, Alberta Health Services management has pressured health-care professionals at two downtown Edmonton mental health clinics to transfer their patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart, the Progress Report has learned.

An arbitrator has ruled that while Mount Royal University overstepped by dismissing Frances Widdowson, who critics have called a “residential school denialist,” her actions since “irreparably damaged” her relationship with MRU so badly that she doesn’t get to have her job back. 

Danielle Smith and her cabinet were exultant after the federal Liberals caved to corporate pressure and ordered striking rail workers back to work last weekend. 

Edmonton police assisted a landlord with an eviction in 2022, despite the tenant having received a court-sanctioned delay the previous day, the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) heard on July 18. 

Ryan Hampton is appealing the acting Edmonton Police Service (EPS) chief’s decision to clear the officers who removed him from his apartment on Sept. 24, 2022, arguing that the cops inappropriately involved themselves in a civil matter, in contradiction of EPS policy.

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.