On Wednesday, the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) leadership announced a “solidarity pact” it entered with more than two dozen unions, but offered few details on the pact’s tangible impact. 

Most of the participating unions are AFL affiliates, but the AFL made their announcement at the west Edmonton headquarters of the Alberta Union of Public Employees (AUPE), Alberta’s largest union. 

Carney’s first act in office puts an end to an Albertan invention

Rest in peace to a real one: Canada’s carbon tax is dead, slain by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

It’s a policy move with particular resonance to Alberta and not just because all the conservatives here hate it. While a variety of approaches to pricing carbon have been tried over the years, the federal carbon tax cribbed almost entirely from the Notley NDP’s climate plan.

Journalist Susan Thompson joins us on the pod with the latest from Valleyview, where the local library is under political siege from a batch of odd characters including a UCP VP of comms and a white nationalist who worked for the local MLA.

An energy company’s attempt to set up a Bitcoin mine against a landowner’s wishes on land it leased for extracting natural gas has been quashed at the Court of King’s Bench. 

In a March 10 decision, Justice Christopher A. Rickards ruled that Persist Oil and Gas violated the terms of its lease with plaintiff Roy Flowers, who’s owned the land since 2012, ordering the company to shut the mine down.

Who is Danielle Smith without Justin Trudeau?

The federal Liberals held their leadership vote this weekend and picked economist and ur-banker Mark Carney, which means a lot of Albertans are going to have to switch the stickers on their trucks.

A year after hiring a lobbying firm with close ties to the governing UCP to advocate on its behalf, Shoppers Drug Mart scored a $2.5-million agreement with Alberta Health Services (AHS) to provide mandatory COVID-19 tests for international travellers.

One of the AHS officials who signed off on that agreement is Blayne Iskiw, a director and shareholder of a company at the centre of allegations that the UCP government pressured AHS to accept inflated contracts to operate chartered surgical facilities.

Dr. Wing Li from Support Our Students and Chris Gallaway from Friends of Medicare join Jim and Jeremy to dissect Alberta's 2025 budget.

Alberta’s 2025 budget is high on rhetoric but low on detail when it comes to plans for the new, “refocused” system of health-care agencies that will replace Alberta Health Services (AHS).

New education funding outlined in the 2025/26 budget continues to fall behind the Alberta government’s own estimate of inflation and population growth, with the exception of subsidies for private schools and early childhood education centres.

One of the biggest recipients of nursing contracts from Alberta Health Services (AHS) over the past two years is a British company that has subsidiaries in the U.S., Canada, Australia, China and Japan. Another is a company co-owned by a self-published author and motivational speaker that might not be registered to operate in Alberta.