Alberta
- It is estimated that 325,000 children are currently experiencing sexual abuse in Alberta.
https://www.alberta.ca/what-is-sexual-violence
- Mice Vote To Bell Cat: Climate Terror In Albertacleantechnica.com Mice Vote To Bell Cat: Climate Terror In Alberta - CleanTechnica
Alberta's Conservatives voting to deny climate change is the pitiful squeaking of mice about to be swept aside by the climate action cat.
- Alberta premier wins leadership review with 91.5 per cent approval
>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received 91.5 per cent support for her leadership from members of her United Conservative Party who voted in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday. > >"Our party is united as it has ever been," Smith told the cheering crowd after the number was announced. > >The party said 4,633 ballots were cast in the vote. The result solidifies Smith's leadership of Alberta's governing party and confirms party members agree with the direction she has taken the province since she took over the party two years ago.
CBC
- Alberta introduces Canada’s harshest anti-trans policies yetxtramagazine.com Alberta introduces Canada’s harshest anti-trans policies yet | Xtra Magazine
Premier Danielle Smith’s government tabled three new policies on gender-affirming healthcare, pronouns in schools and trans girls in sports
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32080384
- THE ANIMAL PROTECTION PARTY OF CANADA DENOUNCES “CRUELTY AS ENTERTAINMENT” AT THE CALGARY STAMPEDEwww.animalprotectionparty.ca THE ANIMAL PROTECTION PARTY OF CANADA DENOUNCES “CRUELTY AS ENTERTAINMENT” AT THE CALGARY STAMPEDE - Animal Protection Party Of Canada
Rodeo events have no place in the modern world, because of the cruelty they inflict on animals and because they bring out the worst in humans.
- Plenty of rats in Alberta
Lots of rats in Alberta in spite of claims. They are all members of the UCP.
- Red Deer Council looking to residents for budget prioritiesedmonton.ctvnews.ca Red Deer Council looking to residents for budget priorities
Ken Johnston, mayor of Red Deer, discusses the city’s public engagement to address the budget shortfall with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins.
Ken Johnston, mayor of Red Deer, discusses the city’s public engagement to address the budget shortfall with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins.
- Must Be Rats on the Brain - This American Lifewww.thisamericanlife.org Must Be Rats on the Brain - This American Life
The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.
This American Life has a story featuring Alberta. Apparently it is the only populated place without rats!
- RCMP officer charged in connection with break-in at Banff hotel room with 2 women inside | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca RCMP officer charged in connection with break-in at Banff hotel room with 2 women inside | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said it was directed to investigate the incident that unfolded 'in the early hours' of Oct. 23, 2022.
- Lacombe-Ponoka MLA who made derogatory remarks about trans students could return to UCP caucus: Danielle Smith
Jennifer Johnson could return after trans policy reforms pass, premier tells party members
- New grandparent scam using AI technology a cause for concern in Albertaglobalnews.ca New grandparent scam using AI technology a cause for concern in Alberta | Globalnews.ca
Police say artificial intelligence has create a new form of an old scam targeting senior citizens following two arrests in southern Alberta.
>He says fraudsters scour social media to find people online, take their voice from certain posts and then track down their grandparents and begin the scam.
Maybe a good time to warn your relatives.
- Alberta premier reveals plans to transfer hospitals away from AHSwww.airdriecityview.com Alberta premier reveals plans to transfer hospitals away from AHS
Read the full story and comment on AirdrieCityView.com
- Canadian Blood Services: Assignment Saving Livesmyaccount.blood.ca Join Canada’s Lifeline - Donations celebration!
When you donate, you´re using the power to Give Life. It’s that simple. Your donation can treat cancer patients, bring a car crash victim through surgery, even help a transplant patient’s new heart beat for the first time. - Donations celebration! - MyAccount, Canadian Blood Services
Hello Albertans ! I’m Emily, and I am participating in a scholarship competition run by Canadian Blood Services. I’m an active blood donor and advocate (currently the club president at my university!). I would love your help. I’m looking to recruit and have current donors join my team through the link. I would be more then happy to explain the process for registering to be a blood donor as well! Your donations save lives across Canada, and even if you aren’t interested in joining my team specifically I would still love it if you could look into becoming a blood or plasma donor. It’s only a bit of your time and will completely change another’s. The donation count on my team is from members across Canada, and currently you have all had over 100 donations completed during the summer which is absolutely incredible! Feel free to remove this as well, absolutely no hard feelings.
- Alberta premier says legislation on school pronouns coming after September
New policy would require parents to consent before children under 16 can change their names or pronouns
- No Warning as Alberta Shuts Down Long-COVID Clinics
> It’s not hard to connect the dots between the anti-vaccine extremists, including Premier Danielle Smith, who now dominate Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the admission by a beleaguered Alberta Health Services that it is shutting down its long-COVID clinics in Calgary, Edmonton and Sherwood Park.
> AHS, once a model of how to run a modern integrated provincial public health-care agency, is in the early stages of being broken up by Smith’s government, which is bent on relitigating the 2020-to-the-present COVID-19 pandemic from a MAGA perspective that denies the reality of the disease, believes life-saving vaccines kill children and views public health measures as a totalitarian control mechanism.
> And it is no mere coincidence that this happened only a day after an anti-vax UCP MLA’s incoherent ramblings about how he’d like to see the vaccine banned completely caused a stir on social media. MLA Eric Bouchard has since recanted his apparent claim that an actual plan to ban the COVID vaccine was in the works.
- Residents vote against Banff's annual pedestrian zone
1,328 votes against narrowly beat out 1,194 votes in favour
- Alberta Premier Sheds Crocodile Tears After Jasper Is Destroyed By Fire - CleanTechnicacleantechnica.com Alberta Premier Sheds Crocodile Tears After Jasper Is Destroyed By Fire - CleanTechnica
A wildfire consumed much of the town of Jasper in Alberta, Canada, yet the provincial government refuses to act to protect its citizens.
- 'Tipping point': Nearly half of Albertans $200 or less away from insolvency, MNP survey sayscalgaryherald.com 'Tipping point': Nearly half of Albertans $200 or less away from insolvency, MNP survey says
Survey data suggests 47% of Albertans are on the cusp of failing to meet all their financial needs, a new report from MNP Ltd. has found.
- Calgary Stampede Rodeo: A Tradition of Tortureanimaljustice.ca Calgary Stampede Rodeo: A Tradition of Torture
More than 100 animals have been killed since 1986 at the Calgary Stampede.
- Canadian doctor will join Virgin Galactic research space crew | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca Canadian doctor will join Virgin Galactic research space crew | Globalnews.ca
Dr. Shawna Pandya, an Edmonton physician, will be flying to space as a research astronaut with Virgin Galactic on its new Delta Class of spacecraft.
- Alberta School Boards are Cutting Hundreds of Teaching Positions Next Year, Teachers’ Association Sayspressprogress.ca Alberta School Boards are Cutting Hundreds of Teaching Positions Next Year, Teachers’ Association Says
Alberta is cutting teachers while class sizes are in the high 30s and student enrolments are set to grow by 26,000 next year
> Over one-third of Alberta’s school divisions are cutting teachers next year even though classes are already overcrowded and enrolments are continuing to rise.
> Student enrollment and class sizes will meanwhile continue to increase, with the ATA’s data indicating 26,000 additional students are expected to enroll next year compared to last year.
> According to the ATA and public education advocates, the cuts are a result of a funding model introduced by the United Conservative government in September 2022 called the “Weighted Moving Average.” The “Weighted Moving Average” calculates student funding over three years using numbers from the previous year, current year and proceeding year. According to Schilling, this system fails to account for enrollment growth and complex challenges in the classroom. “It’s starting to create a crisis,” Schilling told PressProgress. “Talking to my colleagues across the province, staff rooms are being converted into classrooms, library commons are being converted into classrooms, gymnasiums, wherever they can find space.”
> Bradley LaFortune, Executive Director with Public Interest Alberta, notes the Alberta Government has launched major advertising campaigns to draw newcomers into the province. LaFortune notes that Calgary has only built one new school even though the Calgary Board of Education is expecting 9,000 new students in the next year.
> "What we’re seeing is a cut as a result of a funding formula that’s inaccurate. It doesn’t address new challenges, it doesn’t address population growth. It’s a recipe for disaster. It’s pretty appalling that that’s the state of public education today,” LaFortune said. “We need to stop investing in inaccessible private schools, fund public education, defund private education, and get back to the basics.”
