More than half of the awards ordered by the Alberta Human Rights Commission in recent years have not been paid to people whose rights have been violated, CBC TV reported Monday night. The report showed that over the past two years, seven complaints that ended up in a human rights hearing were deemed to have merit. But only two of those awards have been fully settled.
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The Alberta government's high-wire act of fixing a crumbling infrastructure while sticking to tight-fisted
budgets will continue into the next century, Premier Ralph Klein promised party faithful Friday. Speaking to delegates at the
Tories' annual convention, Klein said he remains committed to the fiscal hawkishness that slayed budget deficits this decade.
Alberta will be in attendance and watching closely as governments from around
the world discuss climate change and greenhouse gas reductions in Bonn, Germany,
November 2 - 4.
Alberta's Environment Minister, Gary Mar, is attending the conference as representative of Alberta and as Chair of the
Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Through this affiliation, Mar also chairs the national Joint Ministers of Energy
and Environment, the principle intergovernmental decision-making forum on climate change in Canada, which also provides
ongoing advice for international negotiations.
The Alberta Grain Commission (AGC) strongly believes that the Kroeger recommendations for changes to Canada's grain
handling and transportation system are a win for farmers and urges government and industry to move on with implementing the
recommendations.
Saskatchewan hog producer Florian Possberg was in
Alberta recently to see if regulations are greener on the other side of the
border.
Possberg, one of the largest hog operators in Saskatchewan, was at a meeting
to learn about Alberta's intensive livestock operations rules.
"We may do development in Alberta. We like to keep our options open," said
Possberg, who made a five-hour trip to Vegreville from Humboldt, Sask., for
the meeting.
"We want to get the general feeling how sensitive issues are in the different
areas."
While he listened to the proposals, Possberg was surprised with the amount of
discussion over the proposed regulations.
Small business owners and managers have the highest
job-satisfaction rate in the country, says a new survey done
for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and
Scotiabank.
The Goldfarb Consultants survey, released Friday, found 92
per cent of small business owners and self-employed people
were happy in their work, followed by employees of small
firms (fewer than 50 people).
Lowest on the workplace satisfaction scale were public sector
employees, at 70 per cent.
The numbers tell a story that's been lost in big business'
shouting about brain drain and productivity, CFIB Alberta
director Brad Wright said.
"Big business keeps harping about brain drain. These numbers are proof that
quality in your work life, quality of management, attitude of the owner transmitted
to the staff mean more than a one-dimensional pay package," Wright said.
A campaign against the war and the practice of slavery in Sudan is
gathering force among Sudanese exiles and their supporters in Canada
and the United States.
Increasingly, it is focusing on Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc.,
Canada's largest independent oil producer, which has a 25-per-cent
stake in a rich Sudanese oil project.
Talisman says it is introducing "North American ideas, standards and
values" to a poor northeastern African land. Ms. Ajang says that's
rubbish.
She says the oil project helps to perpetuate the domination of Christians
like herself and other southern Sudanese by Muslims from the north. She
wants Talisman to get out.
"I would like Canada to be the best friend of the south," she said. "If
Talisman would leave immediately, the [Sudanese] government would try
to investigate, will find out the reason and will know why the Canadians
left."
In Ottawa and in Washington, they are listening to people like Ms. Ajang.
Victoria Ajang appeared before a U.S. congressional subcommittee
in May to tell the story of her ordeal in Sudan. Here is an excerpt
from her written submission as it appears on the American
Anti-Slavery Group's Web site.
Petro-Canada joined four other major oil companies Friday, putting For Sale signs
on huge chunks of western Canadian oil properties.
Animal-rights extremists have launched a campaign frighteningly similar to one operated out of
Vancouver a few years ago.
University researchers across North America who use animals in their research have been warned to watch for booby-trapped
packages in the mail.
In the past two months, people in the fur business, mostly in Newfoundland, have received envelopes containing razor blades.
Police in Vancouver who investigate terrorist groups say the campaign has "striking similarities" to one run out of Vancouver,
allegedly by two men now facing criminal charges.The "Justice Department" has claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist actions in B.C.
Former Bear Watch members David Barbarash and Daren Thurston, both of Vancouver, are to go on trial next June in B.C.
Supreme Court for allegedly mailing razor blades to hunting guides, furriers and others in the fur trade from late 1995 to '97
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