a billion dollar office, retail, residential development in an old quarry in SE Calgary. It will be the new Canadian head office location for Jacobs Engineering.
Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Quarry Park
a billion dollar office, retail, residential development in an old quarry in SE Calgary. It will be the new Canadian head office location for Jacobs Engineering.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Children will not be allowed to work in Alberta bars
I know we have a labour shortage, but this was a bad idea. When we had the peeler shortage, they brought girls in from eastern Europe to strip, but who ever came up with this idea should not be in a position of influence with the government.
calgary.ctv.ca with a report CP
cba
POSTED AT 6:39 PM Friday, March 16
The Alberta government has changed course on a plan to allow children as young as 12 to work in bars.
The province had told industry officials yesterday they were going to allow kids to work in the non-booze areas of bars, like in kitchens.
But the government reversed that plan after news leaked out today.
The Alberta Federation of Labour and the opposition NDP criticized the plan as a crass cash grab at the expense of children.
A spokesman for Ed Stelmach says the premier was also not in favour of the idea.
The change was to help the industry address critical labour shortages.
The current rules in Alberta state that no child under 18 is allowed to enter a bar.
Workers from 12 to 14 are allowed to do the following tasks:
1. Delivery of flyers or newspapers
2. Be a clerk in a retail store
3. Be a clerk or messenger in an office
4. Be a delivery person of small wares in a store
5. Work at low-risk jobs in food and restaurant job including hosting and cleaning including busing, dishwashing, and customer service.
calgary.ctv.ca with a report CP
cba
POSTED AT 6:39 PM Friday, March 16
The Alberta government has changed course on a plan to allow children as young as 12 to work in bars.
The province had told industry officials yesterday they were going to allow kids to work in the non-booze areas of bars, like in kitchens.
But the government reversed that plan after news leaked out today.
The Alberta Federation of Labour and the opposition NDP criticized the plan as a crass cash grab at the expense of children.
A spokesman for Ed Stelmach says the premier was also not in favour of the idea.
The change was to help the industry address critical labour shortages.
The current rules in Alberta state that no child under 18 is allowed to enter a bar.
Workers from 12 to 14 are allowed to do the following tasks:
1. Delivery of flyers or newspapers
2. Be a clerk in a retail store
3. Be a clerk or messenger in an office
4. Be a delivery person of small wares in a store
5. Work at low-risk jobs in food and restaurant job including hosting and cleaning including busing, dishwashing, and customer service.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
HAPPY FAMILY DAY ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN!
Family Day began in the Province of Alberta about 20 years ago, a statutory holiday on the 3rd Monday in February every year. This year, the Province of Saskatchewan decided to make Family Day a holiday as well.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
U.S. urges 'fivefold expansion' in Alberta oilsands production
Last Updated: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:31 AM ET
CBC News
The U.S. wants Canada to dramatically expand its oil exports from the Alberta oilsands, a move that could have major implications on the environment.
U.S.and Canadian oil executives and government officials met for a two-day oil summit in Houston in January 2006 and made plans for a "fivefold expansion" in oilsands production in a relatively "short time span," according to minutes of the meeting obtained by the CBC's French-language network, Radio-Canada.
The meeting was organized by Natural Resources Canada and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Canada is already the top exporter of oil to the American market, exporting the equivalent of one million barrels a day — the exact amount that the oilsands industry in Alberta currently produces.
A fivefold increase would mean the exportation of five million barrels a day, which would supply a quarter of current American consumption and add up to almost half of all U.S. imports.
But the current extraction of oil from the tarsands results in the spewing of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere: it's already the biggest source of new greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
The news of the call for the massive boost in oil production comes as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to make the environment one of his top priorities, vowing that Canadians deserve more action on climate change. Polls show the environment is the number one concern of Canadians.
Yet, according to the minutes of the Houston meeting, to multiply its output by five and to do it quickly, Canada would have to "streamline" its environmental regulations for new energy projects.
"We need to look at additional pipelines from Canada to the U.S. as a new source of supplier, a growing source of supply," said Bob Greco of the American Petroleum Institute.
In his state of the union address in 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush set out a goal to drastically reduce oil imports from the Middle East and make American dependence on Middle Eastern oil "a thing of the past."
"America is addicted to oil which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," Bush said then.
Paul Michael Weaby, a Washington insider and an expert on the geo-strategic aspect of the oil industry, said Bush is counting on Canada to help wean the United States off Middle Eastern oil — a goal now defined as a national security objective.
"He wanted to have a reduction of 1.5 million barrels a day by 2015 from the Middle East. Although he did not mention Canada, that is in fact where the replacement supply will come from."
CBC News
The U.S. wants Canada to dramatically expand its oil exports from the Alberta oilsands, a move that could have major implications on the environment.
U.S.and Canadian oil executives and government officials met for a two-day oil summit in Houston in January 2006 and made plans for a "fivefold expansion" in oilsands production in a relatively "short time span," according to minutes of the meeting obtained by the CBC's French-language network, Radio-Canada.
The meeting was organized by Natural Resources Canada and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Canada is already the top exporter of oil to the American market, exporting the equivalent of one million barrels a day — the exact amount that the oilsands industry in Alberta currently produces.
A fivefold increase would mean the exportation of five million barrels a day, which would supply a quarter of current American consumption and add up to almost half of all U.S. imports.
But the current extraction of oil from the tarsands results in the spewing of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere: it's already the biggest source of new greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
The news of the call for the massive boost in oil production comes as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to make the environment one of his top priorities, vowing that Canadians deserve more action on climate change. Polls show the environment is the number one concern of Canadians.
Yet, according to the minutes of the Houston meeting, to multiply its output by five and to do it quickly, Canada would have to "streamline" its environmental regulations for new energy projects.
"We need to look at additional pipelines from Canada to the U.S. as a new source of supplier, a growing source of supply," said Bob Greco of the American Petroleum Institute.
In his state of the union address in 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush set out a goal to drastically reduce oil imports from the Middle East and make American dependence on Middle Eastern oil "a thing of the past."
"America is addicted to oil which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," Bush said then.
Paul Michael Weaby, a Washington insider and an expert on the geo-strategic aspect of the oil industry, said Bush is counting on Canada to help wean the United States off Middle Eastern oil — a goal now defined as a national security objective.
"He wanted to have a reduction of 1.5 million barrels a day by 2015 from the Middle East. Although he did not mention Canada, that is in fact where the replacement supply will come from."
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
I don't trust horses
I got bucked off a horse when I was 15 and broke my left arm. I prefer mountain bikes these days. They aren't any safer for me, just lower to the ground.
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