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Most Albertans Will Soon Have to Get Out Their Wallets for COVID Shots

1 week ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

In a release sent late last Friday, the Alberta government announced most in the province will soon have to pay to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government cites $135 million in unused, “wasted” vaccine doses in the 2023-24 respiratory virus season, based on an estimate from the US Centers for Disease Control that pegged the cost of COVID vaccines at about $110 (Cdn) per dose.
While workers walk the picket lines, DHL brings in scabs by the busload

1 week ago | pressprogress.ca | Emma Arkell

Just days before the start of a federal ban on the practice, DHL Express Canada has been using replacement workers to fill the jobs of employees it has locked out — and is now asking the government to exempt the company from that impending ban. After nearly 10 months of negotiations between DHL and Unifor, which represents over 2,000 of its employees, the company locked out workers as of midnight on June 8. The union responded hours later with a strike.
LifeLabs’ BC Strike Might Be Over, But Workers Are Still Worried About Its New American Owner

2 weeks ago | pressprogress.ca | Emma Arkell

After more than a year at the bargaining table, and over two months on the picket line, LifeLabs workers in BC are back at their jobs with a new collective agreement, but their union is raising the alarm about the company’s new owner: a multi-billion-dollar American firm that’s looking to expand in Canada.
Making Work Safer for Racialized Immigrant Women

4 weeks ago | pressprogress.ca | Jonathan Goldsbie

Racialized immigrant women are some of the most disadvantaged workers in Canada, with an employment rate than racialized immigrant men and non-racialized immigrant women. Often, certifications and work experience from their home countries aren’t recognized, pushing many into low-wage, precarious jobs. If they experience harassment or unsafe working conditions, reaching out for help is made more complicated by language barriers, systemic racism and unfamiliar bureaucracy.
In Trying to Compete with Amazon, Canada Post is in a ‘Race to the Bottom’

1 month ago | pressprogress.ca | Emma Arkell

Things are not going well at Canada Post. Six months after a strike brought its operations to a weeks-long halt, it has still been unable to reach new agreements with its employees, who as of today are refusing to work overtime. When the government ordered workers back to their jobs in December, then-labour minister Steven MacKinnon established an Industrial Inquiry Commission to study the dispute and produce a report on its context and causes.
Danielle Smith’s Separatist Mess

1 month ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

Danielle Smith has a separatist problem. Recent polling suggests that while most Albertans would like their province to remain part of Canada, supporters of her own United Conservative Party want secession. For Smith, the problem has become too big to ignore, raising the question of how seriously the movement for independence should be taken.
Alberta’s Separatist Stampede

1 month ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

Alberta separatism is making headlines again, this time driven largely by figures associated with far-right politics and the Freedom Convoy who are disgruntled about the federal election results. Groups within the province are now organizing a petition for a referendum and it looks increasingly like they may succeed at putting a question about Alberta independence on the ballot in some form or another next year. How likely is it that the Alberta independence movement could achieve its goals?
Alberta Wants to Loosen Restrictions on Corporate Financing of Elections

1 month ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

It may soon be easier for big money to influence government policy in Alberta. Through a series of proposed legislative amendments, Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party plans to open the door to increased political influence by corporations. Introduced the day after the federal election, Bill 54, the Election Statutes Amendment Act, promises major changes to political financing in the province, which has raised concerns from government-accountability advocates.
Many of Those Closest to Pierre Poilievre Have Ties to Canada’s Biggest Lobbying Firms

2 months ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

Analysis by Stephen Magusiak, Reporter Many of the figures closest to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre have been tied to the largest corporate lobbying firms in the country. After winning control over the official opposition in September 2022, Poilievre quickly got to work placing pro-business allies into key positions of power within the party. These included top advisors, executives and policy makers — not least of whom is key advisor Jenni Byrne, whose ties to the world of corporate...
Pierre Poilievre’s Top Advisor, Jenni Byrne, is a Major Corporate Power Broker

2 months ago | pressprogress.ca | Stephen Magusiak

Jenni Byrne, among the most powerful figures behind Pierre Poilievre’s election campaign, has been described as one of the most important power brokers in Canada: “merciless,” a “ruthless tactician,” the “most powerful woman in Ottawa.” Writing in Maclean’s, Simon Lewson speculated Byrne could easily become Poilievre’s chief of staff should the Conservative leader become prime minister.