Tag: Northern Alberta

  • Budget 2015 to be released March 26

    March 05, 2015 – Albertans will learn how government will address the $7 billion fiscal challenge on March 26 with the release of Budget 2015. “For the last several months I have toured the province extensively, meeting personally with thousands of Albertans at speaking engagements and direct meetings to seek their ideas for how government…

  • Forsyth Statement on Prentice Blaming Albertans for PC Fiscal Woes

    Forsyth Statement on Prentice Blaming Albertans for PC Fiscal Woes

      CALGARY, AB (March 5, 2015): Today, Wildrose Leader Heather Forsyth released the following statement on Premier Jim Prentice telling Albertans to “look in the mirror” in order to address the PC government’s fiscal woes: “For months, Mr. Prentice has been talking down to Albertans, acting like chicken-little, raising trial-balloons and shaking consumer and investor…

  • Tax Season Brings Privacy Risks

    Tax Season Brings Privacy Risks

    A popular commercial describes the pain associated with filing taxes, but tax season also brings privacy risks. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) is reminding organizations to ensure tax statements are ending up in the right hands. Last year, there were five breach reports related to misdirected tax slips which affected 15…

  • Alberta’s small business confidence plummets in February

      Barometer index drops another 6.6 pts in February; down 25 points since November CALGARY – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) released the latest Business Barometer survey results that show Alberta’s small business confidence index fell another 6.6 points in February to 48.2.  It is the third straight month of significant declines, leaving…

  • Alberta Prepares for Wildfire Season

    Alberta Prepares for Wildfire Season

    Wildfire season in Alberta officially began on March 1. In preparation, the Alberta government is busy positioning crews, aircraft and other equipment in Alberta’s Forest Protection Area for immediate deployment as required. The province is also training new firefighting personnel and staffing Alberta’s lookout towers in readiness for wildfire season. Albertans living, working or visiting the…

  • Alberta Sells Three Planes from its Fleet

    Alberta Sells Three Planes from its Fleet

    Alberta is closer to being out of the airline business with the sale of three of four planes in the government air fleet. Fargo Jet Centre Inc. of Fargo, North Dakota was the successful bidder by offering nearly $6.1 million for the three King Air aircraft. This exceeded the minimum bid price by approximately $600,000, or…

  • RCMP Strathcona County – Missing 15 Year Old Female

    Sherwood Park, Alberta – Strathcona County RCMP is asking public’s assistance to locate a missing 15 year old female. On Monday March 2, 2015 at 8:05 p.m. Strathcona County RCMP received a report that, 15 year old Shayleen JOHNSON did not return home after a disagreement at school. JOHNSON recently moved to the area from St. Albert.…

  • RCMP Edmonton – Teenage Girl Missing from Yellowknife

      Yellowknife, NT March 3, 2015 – Yellowknife RCMP request assistance from the community to locate a missing female. 14 year old Saidee Gosselin was reported missing by her family on March 2, 2015. She was last seen on February 27, 2015 at her residence in Yellowknife. Her family believes that Saidee may have travelled…

  • Another Weekend, Another Successful Super Saturday for PC Alberta

    Another Weekend, Another Successful Super Saturday for PC Alberta

    Three constituencies across this province voted to select their PC Alberta candidate for the next election. Before we get to the results, I’d once again like to thank all of our volunteers who spent time with the campaigns, or spent their Saturday running the polling stations. If it weren’t for your devotion to PC Alberta,…

  • Success is Not All That Hard

    Success is Not All That Hard

      By Lorne Ross, former President, National Association of Business Incubators Every year thousands of businesses enter and exit the market place. Of these twenty two percent of small business operate in the goods producing industries while seventy eight percent operate in service industries. Those enterprises that exit the market place are proportionately distributed between service…

  • RCMP Whitecourt – Police Cruisers Rammed

    RCMP Whitecourt – Police Cruisers Rammed

      Man arrested and charged with 36 counts after incident with police Whitecourt, Alberta – On Thursday February 26, 2015 at approximately 6:20 a.m., Whitecourt RCMP officers were dispatched to a complaint of a possible impaired driver where the vehicle was parked in the middle of Old Blue Ridge Highway between Whitecourt and the Hamlet…

  • Alberta Party Sets Policy

    Alberta Party Sets Policy

    Priorities include the economy, K-12 Education, Post-Secondary Education and Human Rights. HIGH RIVER, AB – The Alberta Party is among the smaller parties in provincial politics, but they aren’t shying away from the tough issues. Alberta Party Candidate for Highwood Joel Windsor attended an Annual General Meeting and Policy Session on February 21 and 22…

  • Incriminating Letter Reveals Serious Allegations of Wrongdoing at Service Alberta

      EDMONTON, AB (March 2, 2015): Premier Jim Prentice must answer for an incriminating letter that contains a number of serious allegations of wrongdoing at Service Alberta that occurred under his watch, Wildrose Service Alberta Critic Rick Strankman said today. The letter, written by Service Alberta Minister Stephen Khan to the Board Chair of the…

  • Behind the Scenes of a Million-Dollar Marihuana Grow-Op

    Behind the Scenes of a Million-Dollar Marihuana Grow-Op

      Calgary… Residential marihuana grow-ops present a number of hazards to neighbourhoods. The following video being released by Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) explores the hazards within the site of a recent Calgary grow-op. The video shows a recent seizure ALERT’s Green Team completed in late January 2015. Nearly 900 marihuana plants, worth an…

  • Protecting Alberta Taxpayers: Wildrose Commits to Ending Corporate Welfare

    Protecting Alberta Taxpayers: Wildrose Commits to Ending Corporate Welfare

      CALGARY, AB – Instead of raising job-killing taxes during a time of economic uncertainty, the Wildrose announced today a commitment to scrap over a billion dollars in corporate welfare payments to protect Alberta taxpayers. “Premier Jim Prentice wants Albertans to believe they need to pay more in job-killing taxes while the PCs run government…