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1 week ago | 
stalbertgazette.com | George Lee
No examples of potentially age-inappropriate content from Alberta’s rural school libraries had landed on the education minister’s desk by Tuesday morning.
During a roundtable with about 20 reporters and other rural media representatives, Demetrios Nicolaides confirmed that the examples of graphic content the government was alerted to originated from four books in Edmonton and Calgary school libraries.
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1 week ago | 
thealbertan.com | George Lee
No examples of potentially age-inappropriate content from Alberta’s rural school libraries had landed on the education minister’s desk by Tuesday morning.
During a roundtable with about 20 reporters and other rural media representatives, Demetrios Nicolaides confirmed that the examples of graphic content the government was alerted to originated from four books in Edmonton and Calgary school libraries.
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1 week ago | 
fortmacleodgazette.com | George Lee
When it comes to Alberta’s most innovative public infrastructure, the good stuff always gets built in the province’s two major cities. True or false? True, one extremely limited sample suggests. After all, last year’s four winners of the inaugural Minister’s Infrastructure Awards were evenly divided between Edmonton and Calgary. False, says Martin Long, Alberta’s minister of infrastructure.
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1 week ago | 
fortmacleodgazette.com | George Lee
Economic hardship, anger and untenably long wait-lists have taken root in Alberta because of UCP mismanagement of the disability file, an opposition critic charged recently. Marie Renaud added that issues harming Albertans with disabilities extend beyond a lack of accessibility legislation. But the government needs to act on that too, she said.
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1 week ago | 
stalbertgazette.com | George Lee
Economic hardship, anger and untenably long waitlists have taken root in Alberta because of UCP mismanagement of the disability file, an opposition critic charged recently.
Marie Renaud added that issues harming Albertans with disabilities extend beyond a lack of accessibility legislation. But the government needs to act on that too, she said.
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1 week ago | 
thealbertan.com | George Lee
Economic hardship, anger and untenably long waitlists have taken root in Alberta because of UCP mismanagement of the disability file, an opposition critic charged recently.
Marie Renaud added that issues harming Albertans with disabilities extend beyond a lack of accessibility legislation. But the government needs to act on that too, she said.
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2 weeks ago | 
stalbertgazette.com | George Lee
When it comes to Alberta’s most innovative public infrastructure, the good stuff always gets built in the province’s two major cities. True or false?
True, one extremely limited sample suggests. Afterall, last year’s four winners of the inaugural Minister’s Infrastructure Awards were evenly divided between Edmonton and Calgary.
False, says Martin Long, Alberta’s minister of infrastructure.
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2 weeks ago | 
thealbertan.com | George Lee
When it comes to Alberta’s most innovative public infrastructure, the good stuff always gets built in the province’s two major cities. True or false?
True, one extremely limited sample suggests. Afterall, last year’s four winners of the inaugural Minister’s Infrastructure Awards were evenly divided between Edmonton and Calgary.
False, says Martin Long, Alberta’s minister of infrastructure.
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2 weeks ago | 
fortmacleodgazette.com | George Lee
Trips to the U.S. this month from within the non-cabinet ranks of the UCP appear to build on an elbows-down approach to trade with Alberta’s most important market. The itineraries of MLAs Glenn van Dijken and Angela Pitt also show that not all diplomacy happens in Washington. Van Dijken just returned from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after attending the spring agricultural task force meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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2 weeks ago | 
fortmacleodgazette.com | George Lee
An investment pathway designed to build prosperity in Alberta’s Indigenous communities widened last week, with the government adding two eligibility categories to a Crown corporation’s mandate. Loan guarantees from the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation can now include the technology and health care sectors, Minister of Indigenous Relations Rajan Sawhney announced.
