EDMONTON – Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a major victory in the fight against random and arbitrary privacy violations through drug and alcohol testing. The case, which stems from a grievance filed by Communications Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) Local 30 in New Brunswick, has implications to similar cases in Alberta’s oil sands. Labour leaders hailed…

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OTTAWA- People like the idea of Canada Post making money through financial services according to a new poll. Close to two out of every three respondents (63%) to a Stratcom poll supported Canada Post expanding revenue-generating services, including financial services like bill payments, insurance and banking.  CUPW asked Stratcom to conduct the poll in order…

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By Dave Coles, originally published at iPolitics.ca It’s good that CETA negotiations have stalled. But the cause of the most recent impasse is a damning comment on the Harper government’s thinking. To conclude the Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement negotiations the Conservatives have been willing to undercut municipalities’ right to “buy local”, grant foreign investors…

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Recently, an intergenerational learning and youth exchange took place at Thunderbird House in Winnipeg. In attendance were four elders and 30 students from Community Education Development Association’s (CEDA) Pathways to Education program, College Beliveau, and Grant Park High School. The idea was to bring together people who would otherwise not meet in person, to share…

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The provincial government is ensuring that seasonal agricultural workers participating in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program have provincial health coverage while working in Manitoba, Immigration and Multiculturalism Christine Melnick announced today. “Our government recognizes the hard and physically demanding work done by seasonal agricultural workers and we have heard the challenges they have faced with…

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