Alberta has slashed the number of farms that must provide insurance coverage for their employees as it rewrites a slew of the province’s rules governing protections for labourers in the agriculture ...

Alberta game ranchers are lobbying governments in the province in a renewed attempt to legalize hunt farms. They say it’s an industry that could bring millions of dollars to rural communities, but the ...

Alberta is redrawing the rules on work and safety for 60,000 workers on farms and ranches across the province. Jobs Minister Lori Sigurdson introduced legislation Tuesday making farms and ranches ...

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New proposed farm-safety legislation will only apply to farms with one or more paid employees, leaving family farms to operate as they always have, Alberta’s labour minister said Tuesday. “This bill ...