A Syncrude employee and a contract worker have tested positive for COVID-19, but the company says the two were infected off-site and there isn’t an outbreak.  Syncrude spokesperson Will Gibson said the two cases are not related. The Syncrude employee came in contact with someone displaying symptoms of COVID-19, according to Gibson. The employee was not working…

No matter what your COVID-19 pandemic situation, things right now are tough. This week, CBC’s Ariel Fournier helps us navigate maintenance work, and what it means to visit other people’s homes right now. From the CBC business unit, Kyle Bakx walks us through a historic week for oil prices and we hear about a summer staple that…

Premier Jason Kenney is fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. Yet he can’t seem to communicate with Alberta’s teachers. That became evident this week when Kenney and the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) butted heads yet again over the government’s investment arm, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, commonly known as AIMCo. The government is forcing…

The largest private-sector union in Western Canada is calling for stronger measures to prevent more COVID-19 outbreaks at Alberta’s meat processing plants.  The measures include temporarily closing the Olymel pork processing plant in Red Deer, where there has yet to be a confirmed case of the disease among the roughly 1,500 employees. ​The call comes after the Cargill plant near…

More City of Edmonton employees will be laid off this spring but how many and from which departments is still being sorted out, interim city manager Adam Laughlin said Thursday.  The city is looking to recoup millions of dollars in estimated losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and has already laid off 2,100 city staff on a…

An order restricting long-term care workers to one site didn’t come into force as originally planned because the province needed more time to work with operators, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health said Thursday.  Dr. Deena Hinshaw issued her order on April 10 to restrict staff to working at only one nursing home, designated supported living…