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EDMONTON - A coalition of wildlife and environmental groups is calling on the Alberta Government to do more to ensure there is growth in the population of the province's grizzly bears. The group calling itself Action Grizzly Bear wants Premier Ed ... Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 23 hours ago
Related Articles Arctic development and historical analysis: the use of historical methodology in addressing current issues in the Arctic. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2008 Jun;67(2-3):213-25 Authors: Douglas VK OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate the applicability of historical methodology to current issues in the Canadian Arctic. STUDY DESIGN: This is a literature-based analytical historical study, which draws on material from database searches of MEDLINE, Anthropology Plus, POLARInfo, the Arctic Blue Books and Historical Abstracts. Material was also obtained from physical searches of the University of Alberta Libraries and Library and Archives Canada collections, as well as from field research in the records of the Inuulitsivik Maternities. METHODS: The historical technique of tracing epistemological change over time, pioneered by Michel Foucault and further developed by Ian Hacking, was applied to the history of Canadian authority in the Arctic. This was linked with epistemological changes occurring throughout Western/Southern culture in this period. The applicability of this historical analysis for current issues in the region was then evaluated. RESULTS: An epistemological shift in Western society has moved authority from traditional human actors in Government, medicine and, increasingly, science to statistics, which is seen as both impartial and accurate. Human authorities now routinely appeal to statistical authority to validate policy d ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 38 days ago
Children and youth from across the province will benefit from an Alberta Government investment of more than $50 million to increase access to childrens mental health services and address the mental health needs of children and youth at risk. The ... Source: www.chin.gc.ca --- 39 days ago
Institution/Organization: Provincial Archives of Alberta Location: Edmonton Closing Date: 2008-09-15 Salary range: $17,000 (project based) Description of position: The Provincial Archives of Alberta acquires, preserves and makes available for research private and Government records of provincial significance. The Archives would l... see full version . ... Source: www.canada.com --- 6 days ago
The Alberta Government is bracing for a potential $2-billion hit to its coffers as a result of turbulent global financial markets and tumbling oil and gas prices, Finance Minister Iris Evans said. ... Source: www.cbc.ca --- 4 days ago
A Calgary non-profit group and the Alberta Government are spending $1 million to help women and children fleeing family violence move from temporary shelters into permanent homes. ... Source: www.marketwire.com --- 41 days ago
CALGARY, Alberta (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism), on behalf of the Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, and the Honourable Hector Goudreau, Minister of Employment and Immigration for Alberta, today signed a new agreement to help Alberta workers improve their skills, and to prepare them for the jobs of the future. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Government of Alberta Sep 4 2008 8:17AM GMT ... Source: www.gov.ab.ca --- 38 days ago
Premier Ed Stelmach has appointed Brian Manning as the new Deputy Minister of Executive Council. “I am pleased to name Brian to lead Alberta’s Public Service,” said Stelmach.  “Brian’s track record of leadership, along with his many years of experience and dedication to Albertans, will ensure our province remains a national leader in developing and delivering Government programs and services to our citizens.” ... Source: www.gov.ab.ca --- 2 days ago
The Alberta Government has issued an environmental enforcement order to Valley Power Corporation, for failing to comply with multiple approval conditions, including air emissions monitoring and reporting requirements. Valley Power Corporation owns and operates Thermal Electric Power Generating Plant, a biomass fired power plant in the Town of Drayton Valley. Under the order, Valley Power Corporation must verify that their environmental management system complies with ISO 14001 requirements (an international environmental management standard). The purpose of the standard is to assist organizations and companies to protect the environment, prevent pollution, and improve environmental performance. The order also directs the company to provide Alberta Environment with all outstanding reports required under its approval. ... Source: www.gov.ab.ca --- 2 days ago
Do you know an Alberta employer who has worked hard to increase the number of youth or people with disabilities in the workplace? Do you know of an Aboriginal woman entrepreneur deserving of recognition or an employer who has shown leadership in increasing workplace diversity? If you do, this is the time to nominate them for an Alberta Business Award of Distinction. The Alberta Business Awards of Distinction are sponsored by a variety of non-profit, private and public sector organizations. The Alberta Government sponsors five of the awards. ... Source: www.gov.ab.ca --- 5 days ago
Alberta producers who are eligible for benefits under the Alberta Farm Recovery Plan (AFRP) II can now complete one of the requirements necessary to receive their second benefit. The recovery plan benefits were announced as part of the Alberta Government’s Livestock and Meat Strategy to help the industry become more sustainable, competitive and profitable. Participants received their first benefit in June. ... Source: linkfilter.net --- 33 days ago
Albertans have a big, beautiful backyard to play in. Alberta's provincial parks and protected areas provide access to some of the most spectacular natural landscapes in North America, including more dinosaur fossils than any other single spot on the planet; the world's only boreal forest songbird observatories; the largest collection of aboriginal rock art on the North American Plains; a glacier; majestic mountains and so much more. [AB theme day] ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 8 hours ago
EDMONTON _ Most Canadians will be waiting for federal election results as Alberta politicians file into the legislature Tuesday for what Premier Ed Stelmach expects will be a relatively ho-hum sitting.We`ll be looking at issues tied to bringing in the new royalty framework, Stelmach said last week. I don`t think anything really contentious.The premier gave no hint that the debate might rekindle the acrimony the energy industry expressed a year ago when a 20 per cent increase in royalties was announced.But Liberal Leader Kevin Taft said this may be the most dangerous issue this Government faces in the next year or two as plummeting oil prices and the stock market meltdown raise the stakes.Taff suggested that with Alberta`s economy possibly being side-swiped by a global recession, it`s a very tricky time for this Government to be trying to bring in a new royalty regime.Political analyst Peter McCormick said he suspects the governing Progressive Conservatives are feeling pressure to back away from royalty increases until the energy sector stabilizes.Suddenly our oil sector is not looking like that great a thing to have nailed your future plans to, said McCormick, a political science professor at the University of Lethbridge.It`s a completely different world we`re in now and Stelmach would be completely justified in saying, `We need to wait and think about it.`Other pointed debate during the fall sitting will probably focus on the g ... Source: westernstandard.blogs.com --- 7 days ago
For those following the Libertarian Party in this campaign, Peace River candidate Melanie Simard got some press in the Fairview Post. More about Simard:Originally from France, Simard is currently a High Prairie high school teacher who first came to Alberta as an exchange student in Red Deer in 1995. She settled in northern Alberta a few years later and has been the director and development officer for L’Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta (French Canadian Association of Alberta) in Falher since 2004.And more about what she stands for:“The Libertarian Party is the only one that stands for both personal and economic freedom.” “Governments should only exist to protect individuals’ rights and their property. We stand for individual rights and property rights and the sole purpose of the Government should be to protect those rights,” she said. “Environmental rights should be treated as property rights.” “We tend to believe that people are responsible for the condition of society rather than the other way around…. We’re thinking that people should take care of themselves,” she said. “People know where there is a need in their community and the Government really doesn’t.” “We’re so used to thinking that the Government has to take care of us that people don’t realize that we are the power, we can take care of ourselves, and we can organize associations to care of our homes and our farmers. It doesn’t have to be the job of the go ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 7 days ago
CALGARY _ Officials with EnCana Corp. (TSX:ECA) asked a Government panel Monday to allow a controversial natural gas drilling project to go ahead, despite opposition from environmentalists.The company wants to drill 1,275 new shallow gas wells in the CFB Suffield National Wildlife Area northwest of Medicine Hat, in southern Alberta.A coalition of seven environmental groups says the project, southeast of Calgary, will harm the fragile grassland ecosystem and that EnCana`s environmental record in the area is poor so farIn his opening statement at the hearing, EnCana executive vice-president Gerry Protti said Monday the project won`t have any significant environmental effects.EnCana would not have proposed this project if it did not believe it could be carried out in a sustainable manner, Protti said.Without the project, the resources in the wildlife area will be wasted, he added.The purpose of the project is simply to enable EnCana to efficiently develop its natural gas resources, Protti said.The company has already drilled 1,000 wells at Suffield, which it says has been done in an environmentally sustainable way.The company says the project will produce about 125 billion cubic feet of gas _ enough energy to heat 80,000 homes for a decade. Its total capital cost is estimated to be $233 million.An independent joint federal-provincial review panel will hold its formal hearings in Calgary and Medicine Hat until Oct. 18. ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 5 days ago
CALGARY _ Alberta must stop oilsands production, resist development of a nuclear industry and could become a world leader if only it would look at the development of alternative energies, says a leading anti-nuclear activist.Helen Caldicott, an Australian-born doctor who has spent the last 35 years trying to convince the public of the medical hazards of nuclear energy, is on a cross-Canada tour promoting her new book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.She spoke Tuesday night to an audience at the University of Calgary.Nuclear power produces massive quantities of C02 because a reactor doesn`t stand alone, it has to be powered and fuelled by uranium, Caldicott told CTV Calgary.So you`ve got millions of tonnes of uranium using fossil fuel _ you crush it using fossil fuel, you enrich it using fossil fuel, you transport the weights using fossil fuel.At the moment it produces 30 per cent of the amount of a fossil fuel plant, but within one or two decades the nuclear plant will produce the same amount of C02 as a gas-fired plant.On Tuesday, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said he was upset with parts of the federal Conservative platform that encourage the development of nuclear energy.Albertans will decide, not the federal Government, if we have nuclear power in this province, he said.Stelmach`s Conservative Government is studying a proposal by Ontario-based Bruce Power to build up to four nuclear reactors in northern Alberta, but no policy h ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 7 days ago
CALGARY _ EnCana Corp. (TSX:ECA) asked a Government panel Monday to allow a controversial natural gas drilling project to go ahead, despite opposition from environmentalists.The company wants to drill 1,275 new shallow gas wells during a three year period in the CFB Suffield National Wildlife Area northwest of Medicine Hat, in southern Alberta.A coalition of seven environmental groups says the project will harm the fragile grassland ecosystem and that EnCana`s environmental record in the area has been poor to date.In his opening statement at the hearing, EnCana executive vice-president Gerry Protti said the project will not have any significant environmental effects.EnCana would not have proposed this project if it did not believe it could be carried out in a sustainable manner, Protti said.As a so-called infill project, EnCana would drill more wells in an already developed natural gas field _ essentially increasing the density of wells in the area.The hearings are being held by a joint federal-provincial review panel for the next three weeks, after which the panel will have 90 days to hand down its recommendations.EnCana spokesman Alan Boras said the company did a thorough environmental assessment before drilling and that it is undertaking a number of measures to mitigate its impact on the prairie environment.Shallow gas drilling is probably one of the most benign kinds of development, since it does not take very long to drill e ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 5 days ago
EDMONTON _ Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is upset with parts of the federal Conservative platform that talk about trade in carbon credits and encourages the development of nuclear energy.The policy says a re-elected Tory Government will work to ensure that within a dozen years, 90 per cent of Canadian electricity needs are provided by non-emitting sources, including nuclear.But Stelmach is standing firm against any attempt to impose a pro-nuclear policy that would see reactors built in Alberta without the province`s consent.Albertans will decide, not the federal Government, if we have nuclear power in this province, the premier told reporters Tuesday.No other jurisdiction other than Alberta.Stelmach`s Progressive Conservative Government is studying a proposal by Ontario-based Bruce Power to build up to four nuclear reactors in northern Alberta, but no policy has been set.Although nuclear power is regulated by the federal Government, the premier says Albertans will have the final decision on whether to allow reactors in the province.Stelmach is also miffed about a Tory promise to develop and implement a North Americawide cap and trade system for greenhouse gases and air pollution by 2015.The premier says it simply doesn`t make sense to allow Alberta companies to offset their total emissions by purchasing carbon credits from outside the province.I`m elected by Albertans and my duty is to represent Albertans, he said. And I will do wh ... Source: www.taxpayer.com --- 38 days ago
The Alberta Government's recent decision to increase the grant level for private school students (from 60 percent to 70 percent of the per student public school amount) has come under attack by some public school advocates, the teachers' union, and opposition MLAs. ... Find more results for Alberta Government on RSSMicro.com |
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