University students marching to legislature protesting post-secondary cuts
The University of Alberta and MacEwan University are reporting $44-million and $17-million shortfalls, respectively.
Kenney government moves to fire election commissioner — partway through investigation | CBC News
Elections
Commissioner Lorne Gibson — who has levied more than $200,000 in fines
as part of that investigation — would see his office merged with that
of the province’s chief electoral officer under Bill 22, introduced on
Monday by Finance Minister Travis Toews.
Charity Slams Foreign-Funded Radicals Panel – The Energy Mix
The Public Inquiry Into Funding of Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns is creating a “climate of fear” that there is a price to be paid for disagreeing with the government, Muttart writes in a 174-page letter to inquiry commissioner Steve Allan. It adds that the order creating the commission “construes criticism of the oil and gas industry—or, depending on one’s perspective, concern about the environment—as ‘anti-Alberta’.”
One
in particular fit the bill: Keystone XL — a 1,897-kilometre pipeline to
be built by TC Energy that would carry up to 830,000 barrels of crude
oil per day from Hardisty, Alta., to Nebraska, where it would link up
with the company’s existing pipeline network.
Their
fateful decision at that meeting to throw money and organizational
effort into attacking the proposed pipeline opened a difficult new
chapter for the oilpatch.
Now, those activists are claiming victory.
Canadians might be shocked at the type of jobs being automated or outsourced offshore, according to Professor Ramanan Krishnamoori, chief energy officer for the University of Houston.
“In many of the energy companies we’re starting to see the number of lawyers dropping significantly because you’re starting to see law jobs outsourced to countries like India,” he told Energi Media. “Human resources, economic modelling, back-office operations, etc.”