Alberta Politics: Wildrosers and Progressive Conservatives act as if fighting...
PHOTOS: Edmonton labour lawyer Andrew Sims and Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray at yesterday’s technical briefing on the NDP Government’s new labour legislation. (Photo: CBC) Below: Alberta...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Finally, early in the 21st Century, NDP braves Opposition...
PHOTOS: Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray. Below: Opposition MLAs Greg Clark and Richard Starke, who contributed amends to the act passed in the wee hours of yesterday morning. In the wee hours of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Report calling for big changes to Workers Compensation in...
PHOTOS: Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray. Below: Alberta Workers Compensation Board CEO Guy Kerr and the members of the WCB Panel, labour relations consultant Mia Norrie, labour lawyer John...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: NDP tops political fundraising in Alberta...
Elections Alberta released the financial disclosures showing the results of political party fundraising in the second quarter of 2017. Combined party and constituency fundraising results show the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Celebrating a different kind of Labour Day in Alberta – one...
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and friend with unionized firefighters at last year’s Edmonton and District Labour Council Labour Day BBQ. Below: Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Bill 30, Alberta NDP’s workplace safety and Workers...
PHOTOS: Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray, in a shot taken by the author at last summer’s Premier’s Pancake Breakfast on the Legislature grounds. In the background, media camera crews mob Premier...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Liberals deserve credit for pushing...
Photo: Liberal Party leader David Khan and Liberal MLA David Swann (photo from Facebook) Political Action Committees will be back up for debate before MLAs depart Edmonton for the Christmas break at...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: NDP set to introduce legislation to control ‘Political...
PHOTOS: Liberal Leader David Khan, left, and former leader and sole MLA David Swann in front of the Alberta Legislature last week. Below: NDP Labour and Democratic Renewal Minister Christina Gray,...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: NDP expands Third Party Advertiser law to...
Photo: Labour Minister Christina Gray. (Photo from premierofalberta on Flickr) Labour Minister Christina Gray , who is responsible for the Alberta NDP government’s democratic renewal initiatives,...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: In Bill 32, NDP’s latest tweaks to Alberta election...
PHOTOS: Democratic Renewal (and Labour) Minister Christina Gray. Below: Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan and Alberta Party MLA Greg Clark. The most controversial omission in new Alberta legislation...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The politics of harassment-free workplaces – UCP House...
PHOTOS: A steely-eyed Alberta Premier Rachel Notley meets the media in the Alberta Legislature yesterday in this screenshot of a Government of Alberta video. Below: United Conservative Party House...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: As the year runs out, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten...
PHOTOS: As time runs out on 2017, here are AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten developing new stories for the year. Below: Opposition UCP Leader Jason Kenney, NDP Premier Rachel Notley, serial conservative...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Who is running in Alberta’s 2019 Election?
A handful of aspiring elected officials have already put their names forward to run in Alberta’s next provincial general election, which, due to our odd-ball fixed-election period, is expected to be...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Sunday Night Candidate Nomination Update
Photo: Shelly Shannon, Kathleen Ganley, Christina Gray, and Beth Barberree The New Democratic Party has scheduled its nomination meeting in Fort McMurray-Conklin for May 10, 2018. A by-election is...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Today’s Day of Mourning pieties aside, Alberta workplace...
Today is the International Day of Mourning. Who we mourn are the untold, uncounted numbers of women, men and children who have been killed, injured, disabled or sickened while doing their work. The...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Call it what it is, says labour minister: successive...
CALGARY – For many years, Alberta working people were routinely denied rights other Canadians take for granted, Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray said last weekend in a bluntly worded speech on...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Alberta Candidate Nomination Updates: 3 NDP...
New Democratic Party MLAs nominated: Three NDP MLAs were chosen as their party’s candidates for the next election at meetings held on May 6 and May 12, 2018. MLA Maria Fitzpatrick was nominated in...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Calgary-Lougheed by-election report reveals...
Elections Alberta has released the initial campaign finance reports from political parties during the Calgary-Lougheed by-election held on December 14, 2017. Due to a strange quirk in
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Janis Irwin running for NDP nomination in...
Photo: More than 200 people packed into the Bellevue Community Hall tonight to support Janis Irwin’s bid for the NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood. Janis Irwin launched
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Cuts & Critics: Expect fireworks in the Legislature, but no...
Alberta’s 24 NDP Opposition MLAs were sworn in yesterday and Opposition Leader Rachel Notley, not so long ago the province’s premier, named the MLAs who will fill her shadow cabinet portfolios....
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