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Layoffs from Cenovus-Husky oilpatch merger begin
The fallout from the merger of two oilpatch majors — Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy — is expected to land in downtown Calgary.
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UCP wants to sell land titles, corporate registry services
The UCP government is planning to sell public profitable land titles, corporate and personal properties registries to a private company offering an 'exclusive 35-year contract' to successful bidder.
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UCP cutting 930 jobs in social services, agriculture, forestry
More layoffs coming: 930 Government of Alberta jobs on the line. The cuts could impact up to 546 positions in Community and Social Services and 247 in Agriculture and Forestry, according to AUPE letter.
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Medicine Hat’s maternity clinic will close due to UCP cuts
Due to UCP cuts, Alberta Health Services is closing the clinic and informed the physicians that if the clinic was to continue that they would have to fund it.
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UCP to cut 11,000 AHS health care jobs
Most of the 11,000 job UCP government cuts will come from privatization: 2,000 laboratory jobs, 4,000 housekeeping jobs, 3,000 food service jobs, and 400 laundry jobs. Plus, 800 clinical staff jobs will be lost through attrition.
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U of A to cut 650 jobs to overcome $127-million funding gap
The University of Alberta will eliminate 650 more jobs by 2022 due to UCP $127-million cut. This is on top of about 400 jobs already cut in the 2019-20 school year.
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Swan Hills Treament Centre lays off 60% of work force
The hazardous waste treatment plant is owned by the Alberta government. The private company that manages the plant told its employees on Sept. 10 that they would be laying off 60% of its workforce.
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Foothills doctor leaving UCP policies behind
Dr. Don Wilson, a Foothills farmer and ob-gyn at South Health Campus, is resigning from Alberta and taking his practice to Nanaimo, B.C. Read more -
Five Sundre docs to leave Alberta amid UCP government dispute
More than half of all physicians at one central Alberta clinic will leave the province next spring, the latest escalation in an ongoing dispute between doctors and the province’s UCP government. Read more -
Calgary cuts 110 workers who service and clean city buses
Due to funding cuts, the workers who service and clean Calgary Transit buses before they head out on routes will soon be replaced by an outside contractor.
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