Tag: Central Alberta

  • Premier Notley Should Follow BC & Quebec’s Lead and Consult on CPP Hike

    Premier Notley Should Follow BC & Quebec’s Lead and Consult on CPP Hike

    91 per cent of AB small business owners support delay to ensure proper consultation CALGARY – In advance of the Council of the Federation (COF) meetings later this week, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is asking the premiers to listen to small business and do proper consultation on any expansion of the Canada…

  • Government responds to Auditor General’s and Child and Youth Advocate’s reports

    Government responds to Auditor General’s and Child and Youth Advocate’s reports

    The Ministers of Indigenous Relations and Human Services issued the following statements in response to today’s release of the Auditor General’s and Child and Youth Advocate’s reports on Indigenous children in care. “As a social worker and educator, I’ve been involved in the child intervention system in Alberta for over three decades. Front line workers…

  • Auditor General’s Report Focuses on Delivery of Services to Indigenous Children in Alberta

    Auditor General’s Report Focuses on Delivery of Services to Indigenous Children in Alberta

    Alberta’s Auditor General Merwan Saher released a report today identifying inadequacies within the Department of Human Services in its delivery of child and family services to Indigenous children in Alberta. “We identified three areas where the department can improve its performance, thereby increasing the chances for Indigenous children to experience improved results,” said Mr. Saher.…

  • Advocate Releases Special Report on Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in the Child Welfare System

    Advocate Releases Special Report on Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in the Child Welfare System

    The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (OCYA) has completed a Special Report on the overrepresentation of children and youth in the intervention system (child welfare system) and is publicly releasing the results and recommendations as outlined under the Child and Youth Advocate Act. “The over representation of Aboriginal children in the child welfare…

  • Despite Challenges, Alberta Entrepreneurs Love Owning Own Business: ATB Business Beat

    Despite Challenges, Alberta Entrepreneurs Love Owning Own Business: ATB Business Beat

    Calgary — Despite the daily hardships and challenges faced by Alberta’s small and medium-sized business owners (SMEs), they wouldn’t have it any other way. According to ATB Financial’s Business Beat survey, 89 per cent said that if they were given the opportunity to do it all over again, they would still choose to own their own business.…

  • Flood and Drought Protection Funding for Calgary and Other Vulnerable Communities

    Flood and Drought Protection Funding for Calgary and Other Vulnerable Communities

    The province is investing in flood and drought resiliency projects to protect communities against the effects of severe weather. Twelve organizations in southern Alberta and other vulnerable communities across the province will share a total of almost $1 million through the Watershed Resiliency and Restoration Program. Over three years, government has granted $18.5 million to…

  • Notley Needs to Stop Tearing Down Alberta’s Relationship with Saskatchewan: Wildrose

    Notley Needs to Stop Tearing Down Alberta’s Relationship with Saskatchewan: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB: Premier Rachel Notley needs to start building instead of tearing down Alberta’s relationship with Saskatchewan at the Premiers’ meeting this week, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. Last summer, Notley found herself in a war of words with Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall after he gave a vocal defense of Canada’s oil and gas sector.…

  • 2016 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Inductees

    2016 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Inductees

    It was a memorable night for the 2016 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Inductees. Family, friends and sports enthusiasts joined together at the gala event to witness the induction of these amazing Albertans. They have left their imprint on sports in Alberta and they will be an important part of sport history as they enter the Alberta Sports…

  • It’s Official – Alberta’s 2015/16 Deficit Larger than Initially Thought

    Notley government hiding behind low oil prices to defer making the tough decisions to reduce spending By Steve Lafleur and Ben Eisen, The Fraser Institute VANCOUVER, B.C. / Troy Media/ – There’s no doubt that 2015/16 was a bad year for Alberta’s public finances. And with the recent release of the provincial government’s 2015/16 annual report, we…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Fight the Bite this Summer

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Fight the Bite this Summer

    Warm summer weather brings mosquitoes… and with them, the risk of West Nile virus. Alberta Health Services (AHS) reminds you to make a summer habit of protecting yourself and your loved ones from mosquito bites, and their potentially severe health consequences. “With exposure to mosquitoes comes risk of West Nile virus,” says Dr. Gerry Predy,…

  • Alberta Seniors Have a New Advocate to Voice their Concerns

    Alberta Seniors Have a New Advocate to Voice their Concerns

    Alberta’s new Seniors Advocate, Sheree Kwong See, will help bring the issues and concerns of seniors to government. Kwong See has worked on behalf of seniors as an educator, researcher and policy expert for more than 25 years. She is a psychology professor at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD in experimental psychology…

  • Penalties for Violating Public Lands Reinstated

    Penalties for Violating Public Lands Reinstated

    The province will reinstate tickets and specified penalty amounts for violations on Alberta’s public lands effective August 6. Government will reinstate previously approved specified penalties for offences under the Public Lands Administration Regulation (PLAR). When the PLAR consolidated four regulations in 2011, including the Forest Recreation Regulation, the violations were amended, however the specific ticket…

  • Benefits of New Royalty Framework to Start Early

    Benefits of New Royalty Framework to Start Early

    Rigs and wells across Alberta can now get access to Alberta’s Modernized Royalty Framework, which will help create more jobs when drilling season starts. In response to industry requests, oil and gas producers can apply to opt in to the new, modernized royalty framework for wells that otherwise would not have been drilled. This changes…

  • Markup on Beer Producers Another NDP Tax Hike: Wildrose

    Markup on Beer Producers Another NDP Tax Hike: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB: The NDP government’s latest tax hike on Alberta’s small breweries is causing greater uncertainty for business owners and creates an expensive new grant program, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. On Tuesday, the NDP government announced the tax markup on beer to $1.25 per litre regardless of production quantities or brewery location, while…

  • NDP Must be Upfront About the Cost of its Minimum Wage Ad Buy: Wildrose

    NDP Must be Upfront About the Cost of its Minimum Wage Ad Buy: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB: Following a massive ad buy to promote its risky and ideological carbon tax, the NDP government must now clarify just how much it’s spending to promote the increase of Alberta’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018, the Wildrose Official Opposition said last week. The NDP government previously spent an astounding $4.4 million on a carbon…