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Alberta Puts Patients First By Regulating Psychedelic Therapy: Optimi Health
October 06, 2022 12:51 ET | Optimi Health Corp.
Highlights: The safe supply of psychedelic drug products manufactured at a GMP-level is critical in treating serious mental health issues. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, the Honourable...
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Homes For Heroes Breaks Ground On ATCO Edmonton Veterans Village
April 07, 2021 07:00 ET | Homes For Heroes Foundation
EDMONTON, Alberta, April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Homes For Heroes Foundation is excited to announce that they have started construction on the Edmonton ATCO Veterans Village scheduled to open...
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UFCW Local 401 takes legal action to stop Cargill High River from reopening amid COVID-19 outbreak
May 01, 2020 17:37 ET | UFCW Local 401
CALGARY, Alberta, May 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- While nearly half of Cargill’s 2,000 High River employees tested positive for COVID-19, Cargill announced on Wednesday their intention to reopen...
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“It’s time to fight for food workers,” union leader to Alberta Premier Kenney
April 24, 2020 12:17 ET | UFCW Local 401
CALGARY, Alberta, April 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With confirmed COVID-19 cases affecting Alberta grocery stores and major outbreaks and deaths in Alberta meat packinghouses, UFCW Local 401...
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Manning Conference in Red Deer Tackles "What’s Next?" After Federal Election
November 04, 2019 08:00 ET | Manning Centre
Calgary, Alberta., Nov. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Manning Conference in Red Deer Tackles "What’s Next?" After Federal Election CALGARY November 4, 2019: The Manning Centre’s 3rd Regional...
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Unions release top 10 list of “lies and distortions” being used by UCP to justify cuts
October 07, 2019 13:27 ET | Alberta Federation of Labour
McGowan urges citizens and reporters to use the list as protection against the “avalanche of b***s*** that the UCP is about to dump on our province”  EDMONTON, Alberta, Oct. 07, 2019 (GLOBE...
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Innocuous-sounding program announced today is really aimed at busting unions and suppressing wages, says AFL
October 01, 2019 18:40 ET | Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON, Oct. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The innocuous-sounding “Employee Labour Relations Support Program,” announced today by the UCP, is really a union-busting initiative and part of a larger...
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Life is harder for Alberta’s minimum wage workers this October 1
September 30, 2019 16:17 ET | Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) has gone up 1.3% since last year, yet for the first time this decade Alberta’s minimum wage workers won’t...
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Kenney’s moves on trade puts ideology over Alberta workers
July 11, 2019 15:39 ET | Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON, Alberta, July 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, today made the following statement: “Premier Kenney announced his government would...
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Kenney shows contempt for workers and democracy
June 20, 2019 13:20 ET | Alberta Federation of Labour
EDMONTON, Alberta, June 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The president of Alberta’s largest worker advocacy group, the Alberta Federation of Labour, is outraged by actions taken by Premier Jason Kenney...