#alberta government

[canadianabroadvery]

A new bill would give the Alberta government more power over municipalities, including granting cabinet the power to remove councillors from office, and forcing councils to repeal bylaws the province doesn't like. 

Bill 20, the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment, was tabled in the legislature Thursday afternoon. 

[omg-dragon-age]

Creators deserve to be compensated according to the value their work has in addition to the time they spent on it.

BioWare (and I suspect the firings actually came from the evil overlord, EA) should have given the employees AT LEAST what the law stipulates. They didn’t even do that! I hope the courts of my original home honour the actual law as well as acknowledging the unique and considerable value their work provided to BioWare.

a year ago, today.

[subsidystadium]

Slowly the Canadians are realizing just how terrible the Calgary Arena deal will be for them

Two months ago, it was announced that the city of Calgary and the Calgary Flames, their NHL team, had come to an agreement to build a new arena for just the low, low price of $1.22 billion. This comes after last year’s failed arena deal where the Flames decided to pull out of the deal when the city told them that they would need to help pay for additional infrastructure costs. There are three…

[inc-immigrationnewscanada]

Reactions to Rogers-Shaw deal mixed in Alberta

Reaction to the $26 billion Rogers-Shaw merger in Alberta was mixed on the day it was announced. Bob Schulz, a professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, called the merger a “win-win.” “It’s a blockbuster deal for Canada, but it could be the rising (rural telecommunications) star for the world in the developing countries that we actually test here,” Schulz said…

[cookiecomics]

Help with Payment

My mom's helping me with this month's school payment but I'm short $250, sorry to have to do this again but I really can't ask her for more due to the conversion rate. Any help matters

[gawayne]

if I’m honest I’m kind of baffled that there’s anti-voting content going around. again. you cannot have forgotten so quickly how bad trump was and how hard the republicans tried to prevent you from voting. did you forget the russian bots??

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Three Métis groups signed a deal Friday with the federal government that recognizes them as Indigenous governments, putting them on equal constitutional standing with First Nations and opening the door to further negotiations such as compensation for land lost.

“For over 90 years, that has always been the dream — that proper recognition of a Métis government,” said Audrey Poitras, president of the Métis Nation of Alberta.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller also signed the deal with the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and Métis Nation of Ontario.

“We look forward to continuing to work in partnership with the Métis Nation of Alberta to co-develop approaches that deliver on our shared priorities for reconciliation and support their vision of a better future for the citizens and communities the Métis government represents,” Miller said in a release. [...]

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[united-federation-of-trek]

hahahahahaha I hate it here.

Danielle Smith: I don’t want young kids to permanently change their bodies!

Danielle Smith: So they won’t be allowed to use puberty blockers, the effects of which are basically entirely reversible, until they’re fifteen, which is well into puberty and often towards the end of puberty for AFAB kids!

Danielle Smith: this makes sense and I am so smart! This will not have the effect of making trans youth even more vulnerable than they already are and that definitely wasn’t my intention.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

November 20, 2024

Member LaGrange: Making sure that young people have the ability to make adult decisions when they become adults is key for us. We want to ensure that they have the ability to retain their fertility and make those decisions at a time that is important for them.

[catgirltoes]

The funniest thing on Wikipedia is the timeline for the legalization of gay marriage, because the rest of the world is coloured in terms of individual countries but North America has separate dates for every Canadian province, US State, and Mexican State.

[dark-raven-feathers]

If you live in Alberta and are under 18, this is your warning: Danielle Smith is implementing her new anti-trans legislation this year.

The most important part of this is this: Your parents will be notified if you ask to change your name or pronouns, and you will need consent to do so if you are under 16.

There's a few other stuff in there, including restricted medical transitions and trans women in sports, but this will directly affect the youth.

This link will lead you to a website that will let you submit an email to her, and I encourage you to do so. The more clogged up her inbox is, the less she'll be able to just delete them and move on.

Stay safe y'all, and be careful. The Conservative party has a huge grip on Alberta right now.

Oh, and the most important part: Go fuck the government

[llegato]

what the fuck why are they banning all phones and headphones in class

[allbeendonebefore]

so there was a massive wait list on Kate Beaton’s Ducks when it finally got picked up by the library and sadly when my hold came in i was trapped in BC and had to cancel it

luckily quatsch’s hold came in and she has brought it for me and i’m like. only a short way in and i had to just stop on the page that introduces fort mcmurray because its like. i’ve never been and yet all the panels are just like Extremely descriptive of the background radiation of my life, the sorts of things that i myself would actually avoid drawing because it just feels Too Mundane to me and looking at that spread just had me like. oh. oh yeah. that’s what i need to be doing. more people have to document [vague gestures] whatever this is.

[canadianabroadvery]

“ ... Never mind that Premier Smith said out loud she had been speaking with her officials “almost weekly” about a political ally facing criminal charges stemming from his role in the Coutts blockade last year.

Consider the news release published by the government last Tuesday in the wake of that Monday’s embarrassing news conference at which Premier Smith refused repeatedly to answer media questions about her simpatico tête-à-tête with pastor Artur Pawlowski. ...”

[timeisacephalopod]

Been listening to the behind the bastards eps on Henry Kissinger because I always hear about this man being a trash bag on fire but uh. I mean this guy is a HUGE trash bag on fire wtf I'm not even halfway through the series and Kissinger has committed treason AND extended the Vietnam war, resulting in MILLIONS more dying. Like what the fuck. What the fuck. America y'all are being held hostage by literally the worst people ever y'all need to like. Call the French and see if their revolution stuff can help you out. Like the french arent working in an American context which is why they can do what they do but also damn at least ask em to bring a guillotine or somethin ☠️☠️☠️ Reverse American revolution. Or american revolution two electric boogalo, the sequel wherein America fights America instead of Britain which feels VERY American lmao. Time honored tradition of not trusting America with America 😂😂

[paperedking]

ok the canadian wildfire situation is bad i know

but maybe it's also kinda fucky that the gov only started really caring about air quality when it started to affect toronto/ottawa