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In just two years this 29-year-old has gone from personal assistant to a young executive in charge of a $2 billion budget.

  Ashleigh Turner has gone from personal assistant to a young executive in charge of a $2b budget in the space of a few years. Ms Turner, 29, who handles procurement for mining equipment firm Hastings Deering, has saved her company millions of dollars in the past few years after simplifying how everything from industrial gloves to safety helmets was purchased. Her achievements were recognised last week when she was presented with the Exceptional Young Woman in Queensland Resources Award from the Queensland Resources Council and Women in Mining and Resources Queensland. Ms Turner was tr...

Workers Lament Alberta’s Troubled Resource Sector The new year has brought more woes for Alberta’s resource sector already hit with low oil prices and fleeing investments before the U.S. announcement of the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation. Forty-one-year-old Albertan Ryan Telford, who has worked in the oil and gas sector since he was 17, says that from his experience and knowledge of the industry, he estimates that between 5,000 and 8,000 people in Alberta are directly affected by the cancellation of Keystone XL. “There’s a lot of work that happens before you can even begin the pipe...