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The congress concluded by advocating a rebalancing of confederation in conformation, making provinces fully responsible for their own internal social and economic affairs, the advocacy of an elected Senate to represent and protect the provinces, and the creation of counterbalances against centralizing tendencies and against expanding influence ...
The Alberta Enterprise Group (AEG) is a member-based, non-profit business and corporate advocacy organization based in Alberta, Canada. [ 1 ] The organization's members collectively employ more than 150,000 people and generate billions in economic activity each year.
It is currently the only political group in Canada which is engaged in pro-abortion activism on a national level. [4] [5] Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) (2003 –) a provincial organization funded by the provincial government and the oil and gas industry. Alberta Wilderness Association Environment [6] Ci A rating 2020 [6]
In the early 1990s, the City of Edmonton formed an organization named Communities for Controlled Prostitution, which was later renamed Communities for Changing Prostitution. [9] Because of widespread prostitution in the Edmonton neighborhoods of Boyle Street and McCauley , the police chief of the City of Edmonton declared 1992 "The Year of The ...
The Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is a quasi-judicial human rights commission in Alberta, Canada, created by the provincial government. The Commission was established under and tasked with administering the Alberta Human Rights Act (AHRA). Its mandate is to reduce discrimination in Alberta "through the resolution and settlement of ...
Alberta separatism comes from the belief that many Albertans hold that they are culturally and economically distinct from the rest of Canada, particularly Central Canada and Eastern Canada, because of economic imbalances whereby Alberta is a net over-contributor to the system of equalization payments in Canada. [6]
Wexit reserved the name "Wexit Alberta" with Elections Alberta for use by a provincial party. [16] On April 27, 2020, Wexit Alberta and the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta announced plans to merge into the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta. [17] [18] Members of those parties voted to approve the merger on June 29, 2020.
Danielle Smith is an Alberta journalist, broadcaster, business lobbyist and property rights advocate. Until recently she was the Alberta Director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. In May 2009 Smith announced her intention to seek the party's leadership. She was named one of Calgary's "Top 40 Under 40" in 2004.