Tag: Northern Alberta

  • Update 22: 2016 Wildfires (May 23 at 3:45 p.m.)

    Update 22: 2016 Wildfires (May 23 at 3:45 p.m.)

    Current situation Fire conditions remain extreme in northeastern Alberta. The Fort McMurray wildfire remains out of control. It is estimated to cover 522,892 hectares, including 2,496 hectares in Saskatchewan. A total of 16 wildfires are burning, with one out of control. A fire estimated at 146 hectares in size, and located eight kilometres west of…

  • Update 21: 2016 Wildfires (May 22 at 3 p.m.)

    Update 21: 2016 Wildfires (May 22 at 3 p.m.)

    Current situation Fire conditions remain extreme in northeastern Alberta. The Fort McMurray wildfire remains out of control. It is estimated to cover 522,892 hectares, including 741 hectares in Saskatchewan. A total of 18 wildfires are burning, with one out of control. A fire estimated at 146 hectares in size, and located eight kilometres west of…

  • Government Meets Commitment to Support Student Jobs

    Government Meets Commitment to Support Student Jobs

    The Alberta government is meeting its commitment to support approximately 3,000 student jobs under The Alberta Jobs Plan through the Summer Temporary Employment Program (STEP), which begins this month. Since the program launched in January, more than 2,600 applications have been received from employers across Alberta. More than 1,100 employer applications were approved, funding just…

  • Expanding Alberta’s Export Markets: ATB Releases New Perch

    Expanding Alberta’s Export Markets: ATB Releases New Perch

    Calgary — A healthy Alberta economy depends on our exports. From oil and gas to beef, to wheat, wood and medical instruments, Alberta has a lot to sell to other provinces and the rest of the world—and when it does, it generates money and jobs. The latest edition of ATB Financial’s Perch takes a close look at…

  • Government to Ensure Consistency in Executive Compensation

    Government to Ensure Consistency in Executive Compensation

      Today the government introduced Bill 19, Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act, to address consistency and fairness in executive compensation levels. The proposed legislation would enable government to develop regulations setting compensation frameworks, including salary ranges, for executives and board members of the public agencies, boards and commissions subject to the Alberta…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Quitting Tobacco with AlbertaQuits.ca

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Quitting Tobacco with AlbertaQuits.ca

    People use tobacco for different reasons, and there is no shortage of good reasons to quit. Longevity, quality of life, the sheer cost of cigarettes or chewing tobacco, the impact smoking has on your friends and loved ones: these are all major factors that may motivate you to quit. For all these motivations though, quitting…

  • Diagnostic Lab Service Report Raises Further Questions: Wildrose

    Diagnostic Lab Service Report Raises Further Questions: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB (May 18, 2016): Following the release of the Health Quality Council of Alberta’s report on diagnostic lab services in Alberta, there remain too many questions about whether or not the NDP government is using the best available evidence to provide a lab service delivery model for Edmonton and northern Alberta, the Wildrose Official Opposition…

  • One in Three Business Owners Earning Effectively $15/hour or Less Themselves

    One in Three Business Owners Earning Effectively $15/hour or Less Themselves

    CALGARY – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) welcomes the opportunity to share serious concerns about the government’s $15 minimum wage policy.  Recent CFIB analysis of Statistics Canada data found almost one in three Canadian business owners are earning effectively $15/hour or less, compared to one in five paid employees. “CFIB will be first…

  • Alberta to Consult on Minimum Wage

    Alberta to Consult on Minimum Wage

    As previously committed, the Government of Alberta will listen to employers and employees on how to move forward with changes to the minimum wage. Focused consultations will be held over the next month with key stakeholders, including employers, social service organizations and low-income earners. Discussion topics will include future increases, meal and lodging deductions and…

  • The Generosity of Albertans and the ‘Spectacle of Giving’

    The Generosity of Albertans and the ‘Spectacle of Giving’

    UAlberta sociologists weigh in on why the Fort McMurray wildfire triggered the largest financial response in Canadian history. By Geoff McMaster The response Albertans have shown residents of Fort McMurray over the past two weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. Instantly and with unfettered generosity, people have offered money, shelter, food, clothing, fuel, child…

  • Fort McMurray Wildfires – Where to Donate

    Fort McMurray Wildfires – Where to Donate

    Donate to Fort McMurray’s Local Charities May 5, 2016 Updated May 11, 2016 The wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta is catastrophic, forcing the evacuation of 80,000 people. Thankfully there have been no lives lost at this stage. This will likely be Canada’s largest disaster, surpassing the 1998 Quebec Ice Storm. The 2011 Slave Lake wildfire…

  • Another Major Credit Downgrade Should be a Call to Action: Wildrose

    Another Major Credit Downgrade Should be a Call to Action: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB (May 19, 2016): The NDP government should reinstate a debt ceiling after Standard and Poor’s (S&P) delivered a deeper downgrade to Alberta’s credit rating, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. S&P lowered Alberta’s rating to AA from AA+ citing the NDP’s “very weak budgetary performance and high, increasing debt.” The agency lowered Alberta’s…

  • Alberta Moves Forward to Strengthen Independent Environmental Monitoring and Science Program

    Alberta Moves Forward to Strengthen Independent Environmental Monitoring and Science Program

    Government is tabling legislation that would help establish more rigorous environmental monitoring, open up access to data and assure independent and transparent science. Bill 18, An Act to Ensure Independent Environmental Monitoring, would officially move the environmental monitoring, evaluation and reporting functions once led by the Alberta Environmental Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Agency (AEMERA) back…

  • Live to See your Graduation – Drive Responsibly

    Live to See your Graduation – Drive Responsibly

    The province urges young drivers to focus on the road, and only the road, when driving. Between 2010 and 2014, 226 young drivers and motorcyclists (aged 14 to 24) were killed and 12,883 were injured in collisions. Although young drivers represented only 14 per cent of the province’s licensed drivers in 2014, they accounted for more than 20 per…

  • Update 19: 2016 Wildfires (May 20 at 3:15 p.m.)

    Update 19: 2016 Wildfires (May 20 at 3:15 p.m.)

    May 20, 2016 Current situation Fire conditions remain extreme in northeastern Alberta. The Fort McMurray wildfire remains out of control. It is estimated to cover 503,674 hectares. A total of 17 wildfires are burning, with two out of control. A fire estimated at 130 hectares in size and located eight kilometres west of Janvier is…