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Counties angered by Provincial assessment proposal Staff cuts or massive tax hikes could result, residents need to contact MLA to stop the change BY JOHN MATHER Counties across rural Alberta are very worried about the provincial government’s plan to change the assessment model for regulated properties such as wells and pipelines that was recently announced. In Lamont County, Reeve David Diduck is very angry at the proposal which was delivered to rural municipalities by the Rural Municipalities Association on July 22, just prior to a long weekend. Diduck said the municipalities had until the end of August to provide feedback. “The unfortunate part of this is that the window for feedback is when people are on holidays, the MLAs have just ended the legislative session and on holidays… a number of our staff are away. “This isn’t something we can sit idly by on,” he said. “This is something that requires action and it should be fairly immediate.” The proposal, which has been prepared by a committee of the government that has been meeting since December would give oil and gas companies a break on municipal property taxes and would deal massive blows to the revenues of rural governments. According to Al Kemmere, president of the Rural Municipalities of Alberta, if the overhaul of the provincial rate assessment model is pursued rural councils would be forced to balance their budgets through steep residential tax hikes or deep cuts to municipal services. In Lamont County, Roberta Malysh said most of the numbers are derived from the RMA figures where four different financial options were described. “Most of the numbers are derived from the RMA review,” said Malysh, Chief Financial Officer for Lamont County. “Those numbers were provided to us. There’s no transparency in the numbers provided by MunicipalAffairs for scenarios A, B, C and D so it’s difficult to get a good
and a 19.3 percent. understanding of them.” If staff cuts were to be used to make She said all options have affects on mill rates, a loss of revenues, and what up the shortfall those reductions would mean a reduction of may be impacted full time employthrough staff reducment by between 15 tion. percent and 28.2 per “We have no inforcent. mation on this yet, Malysh said the and how can we posCounty hasn’t sibly project into received anything future years,” she from the government added. yet, just material The County is profrom the Rural jecting a rough loss Municipalities of $4 million in 2020 Association. due to unpaid taxes Malysh said the by oil and gas comchanges would affect panies, because the linear taxation and County has no abilitaxation on the ty to force oil and machinery and gas companies to Lamont County Reeve equipment taxes, the pay and even less David Diduck County charges. ability to collect Malysh defined linfrom bankrupt comear tax as an assesspanies. ment of linear propA request to be erties which are heard at the Alberta wells, pipelines, Court of Appeal on telecommunication collections earlier systems, railway and this year was rejectelectrical utilities. ed, leaving the counThe assessment are ties across Alberta done by municipal no recourse to colaffairs and then the lect unpaid taxes County calculates the from bankrupt comtaxes on that assesspanies. ment. Because of the “If the province Covid-19 pandemic assesses the properLamont, like many other municipalities, granted exten- ties, we are obliged to charge taxes,” sions on tax payments this year. To stated Malysh. “With the four scenarios provided to date only 16 percent or $3,099,309 has been collected leaving $15,891,287 or us,” said Diduck “The best case scenario would see a five per cent reduc83.7 per cent yet to be collected. The current taxes for oil and gas tion in tax revenues while the worst properties in the County is $9,462,783 case scenario would see a nine per cent reduction.” with a further $592,167 in arrears. Putting that into a dollar amount,” he But, based on the potential changes presented by the province and using said, could be roughly a $2-million loss their numbers, the County could be in first year and the County has no idea required to hike its residential tax rate for ongoing years. Diduck plainly states staff cuts aren’t by between 43.3 per cent and 81.4 per cent and the non residential tax rate really an option. “Right now we couldn’t readily cut could go up by between 9.4 per cent
... the County could be required to hike its residential tax rate by between 43.3 per cent & 81.4 per cent
staff,” he said. “We’re in the midst of a severe overland flooding situation where our roads and drainage systems have been totally decimated.” “We need staff and boots on the ground to get this repaired and we’re going to have to find some dollars somewhere to get this repaired.” Reductions in staff is just one of the alternatives, he said, but right now neither it or an increase in taxes is a great scenario. He said there are really no alternatives to Lamont County or any other county to absorb this type of proposed hit to their revenues. “There are certain levels of services the ratepayers expect and right now we’re providing them. “But if this goes through then those services will have to get cut, taxes will be raised and staff reductions may happen.” He added the recent intermunicipal collaboration framework agreements will be impacted. “What we agreed to six months ago might not be affordable anymore.” Further, he stated, urban communities with in the County would be affected. “Some of the costs that result from the reduced assessment will impact the education tax and those costs will have to made up by the urban communities.” Diduck said the rural municipalities haven’t formally met, but in a Zoom meeting of several northeastern counties they agreed to work together. “We’re presenting a united front and we’re all vehemently opposed to the assessment model. We’ll advocate to our MLA and municipal affairs to get the message across that this isn’t acceptable.” He added he wants residents to talk to the MLA (Jackie ArmstrongHomeniuk). “That’s an absolute necessity,” he said. “They’re the ones to get the message out to our MLA that this proposal is not a viable option for them or Lamont County.”
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EIPS announces plans for school re-entry, masks manditory for all grades BY JANA SEMENIUK Elk Island Public Schools has announced its back to school reentry plans,(under scenario one which is near normal conditions) in a 30-page document emailed to families last week. Although the plan was created under scenario one, EIPS board chair Trina Boymook stated that the re-entry guide also contains plans for additional scenarios. “The minister (of education) has decided that schools will begin the school year under scenario one, but all boards are required to have a plan for all three scenarios, should we have to shift unexpectedly to another scenario,” she said during an interview Aug. 7. “This guide contains our plans for all three scenarios.” The document was created among consultations with a number of organizations including Alberta Education, Alberta Health Services as well as EIPS families. “We emailed out a survey to our families in late June and received over 7,600 responses,” said Boymook. “We have never received that many
responses to a survey before, so we were very happy.” Covered in the document are strategies and procedures for minimizing the risk of spreading COVID through staggered recesses, mask use, as well as changes to some programming. Boymook also explained that different types of masks will be acceptable. “It can be a cloth one provided by the student’s parents,” she said. “The province is providing each student with two masks and parents can add to that with cloth or reusable masks if they wish.” Boymook added that the re-entry plan contains a lot of information she hopes that families will take the time to read through and contact their school if they have questions. While the province of Alberta made maskwearing mandatory for all students in grades 412, EIPS went one step further and made mask wearing mandatory for students in kindergarten through grade 12. “As a school division we need to make sure we do everything possible to
keep our staff and students safe while they are at school,” said EIPS superintendent Mark Liguori during an interview Aug. 7. “We feel those skills, learning how to wear masks and when it is required, will be needed by our students not only on entry into school in September but well into the year while COVID 19 is still prevalent in our communities.” Liguori stressed that masks will need to be worn, by staff and students, when social distancing is not possible at school. He also explained that the use of cohorts, a small group whose members are always the same and stay together throughout the school day, made mask wearing for only grades 4-12 challenging. “We have cohorts of students, or grades of students, where we have grade three/four splits which means in one classroom, we will have grade three students and also grade four students (together). So, to try and explain why half of the classroom must wear masks while the other half does not is really not
practical,” said Liguori. During her Aug. 4 address, Alberta education minister Adriana LaGrange stated the wearing of face masks
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less likely to transmit the virus in addition to logistics in keeping masks on younger children throughout the school day.
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New bus rules in place as school start nears BY JANA SEMENIUK As plans and preparations are underway for ensuring a safe return to school this year, transportation to schools have not been left out of the considerations. Elk Island Public Schools rolled out their School Re-Entry plan, a 30-page document, by email to families last week. The document explains procedures that EIPS will use to keep students safe during the COVID pandemic, including times when social distancing isn’t possible, such as during transportation. “Schools are not neat and tidy organizational pieces,” said EIPS superintendent Mark Liguori during an interview on Aug. 7. “So, when we think about students, all students on transportation will be required to wear a mask regardless of what grade.” Tom Hrehorets, owner of Hrehorets bus service, feels the measures taken by the EIPS are necessary
and is ready to take on the additional challenges. “There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s a pandemic. A similar one happened a hundred years ago,” he said. “It’s going to be the new normal and we are going to have to live with it until it’s done its course and then it will be gone.” Hrehorets said that in addition to all 75 bus drivers mandated to wearing face-shields and masks, they will also have a bottle of hand sanitizer to administer to each student as they board the bus. “The driver will be giving out a bit of hand sanitizer to each child as they enter the school bus,” he said. Hrehorets added that there will not be a cap on the number of students that will be riding the bus at the same time. “There aren’t enough buses in the world to transport kids if we could only do a certain number at a time,” he
said. As well as extra measures being taken while students ride the bus, Hrehorets included that the entire bus will be sanitized after each load of children are delivered to their school, adding time to the work day. “It takes about 40 minutes each time, to fully sanitize the bus. In the morning and in the afternoon when the kids are dropped off,” he said. EIPS will also be providing bus drivers with COVID protection while they transport students. “Our staff including our bus drivers will be provided with all of the PPE that is required for them to perform their job,” said Board Chair Trina Boymook. Although schools will re-open to students on Sep.1, the re-entry plan outlines a staggered entry schedule that will see different grades scheduled to begin on different days in order to acclimate students to the new routines.
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It’s not been a good year in Lamont County BY JOHN MATHER During an interview with Lamont County Reeve David Diduck and over the proposed provincial tax assessment changes, which could mean huge tax increases for County residents, he admits 2020 hasn’t been a good year. “We didn’t need this right now,” he states very emphatically. “2020 has been an absolutely devastating year.” “We have five neighbouring municipalities that have declared an agricultural disaster area,” he said. He doesn’t even mentioned the added issues of a pandemic practically closing the world down. “We thought we weren’t too bad when we got through the spring thaw. And though we’ve got a few roads problems and some bridges damaged, but we can deal with that. “But then the persistent rains came.” “You know, you can talk about oil and gas all you want, but at the end of the day agriculture is our primary industry in Lamont County as it is in much of Alberta.” “As the agriculture industry goes so does Lamont County. He pointed to 35 per cent unseeded acres, crops still on the ground from last year as the issues facing agriculture. “Crop projections are probably poor to moderate, but I’d say really they are fair. Crop insurance pro-
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grams aren’t conducive to helping farmers through this in my opinion”. He adds without the farm economy being vibrant and capable of supporting the community…. these are the people who shop at the stores, shop at the equipment dealers. Farmers keep the communities alive. “They need access to their fields and at this point I’m not really sure how we provide that.” So we had all of those issues, we’re trying to get our roads repaired. Every time we make a little progress we get rained on again … just
like today. “So at the end of the day did we need this … probably not.” We’re going to lobby strongly on this and as group of municipalities and hopefully the government will make necessary changes.” Diduck states he realizes the oil and gas industry is important to the provincial economy but adds Covid-19, the Huawei situation in China which is hampering Canola exports, and crop disasters have been impacting the farmers and “the aid to the farmer has been very minimal.” Continued on Page 5
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Opinion COMMENTARY
News flash for fringe British Columbians Hey British Columbia, news flash: Albertans are your neighbours and fellow Canadians. We tend to visit your province in the summer due more to osmosis, rather than trying to bring you the Zombie Apocalypse. Plus Albertans own a great deal of property in BC and have a right as a Canadian to be there. Due to Covid-19 fears, a certain nutty fringe group of BC residents have been trying to intimidate Albertans travelling to BC on holidays by leaving “Go Home” signs on vehicle windows, and vandalizing Alberta vehicles. The latest dangerous, stupid, and potentially murderous tactic is loosening lug nuts on Alberta vehicle tire rims. Just last week a nurse and her three children travelling home to Alberta across the Rockies, had her front passenger wheel go rolling off into the ditch at highway speeds. Thankfully the family wasn’t hurt, or anyone else on the road by way of a 14 kg projectile travelling 100 km/h and hitting another vehicle. The family was just in the Okanagan visiting grandpa, and police in BC have had to warn citizens of loosened lug nuts. Imagine having to warn people of such idiocy?... and being stoned is no excuse. "I would suggest, perhaps, public transit. I would suggest that they get their plates changed. I would suggest they ride a bike," said BC’s NDP Premier John Horgan, if you can believe. Police have reported heated disputes in B.C., and the premier said he can't tell how people to respond. Huh? Though he has since backtracked on certain comments, Premier Horgan apparently doesn’t know where his bread is buttered. British Columbia receives roughly $1.5 billion per year from Albertans in tourism. That accounts for 15 percent of all tourism in BC and 25 percent of all Canadian tourism dollars spent in BC. Alberta spends over 40 percent as much in tourism across the Rockies than BC spends in its own province on tourism. Alberta’s 4.4 million people spend 56 percent as much in BC tourism as the entire 331 million population of the United States. Alberta spends more in BC than the 4.6 billion people from the Asia/Pacific region, which consists of 60 percent of the world’s population. And those numbers are during our economic down times. Of course, many Albertans have travelled to BC for holidays already this summer and report no unpleasant occurences whatsoever. We’ll be travelling to BC for a vacation soon and I will be checking my lug nuts often and will have my tire iron on-hand for that sole purpose, and none other of course. Oh, and by the way BC, we realize your province has done well controlling the pandemic but only .025 percent of Albertans presently have Covid-19. So, 1/3900 are your chances of contracting the disease from even a moistly speaking Albertan. Not exactly the Zombie Apocalypse. Kerry Anderson
Kenney government has to stop abusing its rural voting base BY JOHN MATHER Lamont County Reeve David Diduck is what could best be described as a country gentleman. He’s as much at home in a pair of blue jeans, cowboy boots, and bolo tie at a country fair or auction sale, as he would be in a three-piece suit meeting prospective investors to convince them to locate in Lamont County. When he speaks it is always in a measured way, well thought out, careful not to offend anyone. But right now he is angry and he’s not afraid to admit it. Rural municipalities in Alberta have been blindsided by a government proposal to change the assessment model for oil and gas properties such as wells and pipelines. The Rural Municipalities Association of Alberta took part in the review on a government committee along with representatives from the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, and the Canadian Property Taxpayers Association. The RMA was unable to provide updates to its membership as the process evolved because of strict confidentiality agreements. The final proposal outlines four options, all reducing overall assessment values on properties impacted by the review with provincial wide reductions ranging from seven to 20 per cent. The industry proponent of this committee, said the RMA, favours the option that provides the greatest assessment reduction. Now we all know oil and gas is hurting. But the Kenney government has made several concessions to the industry after being elected through tax reductions and during the pandemic as world oil prices slumped and companies were forced to lay off staff. The Federal government and the previous provincial NDP government catered to the environmentalist and anti pipelines zealots. But this latest move to offer help to the ailing industry goes too far according to the
affected rural municipalities. And the Kenney government had better recognize this. Alberta is a world of two extremes … rural and urban. The government, since it was elected, has been steadily sticking needles into its rural supporters, somehow forgetting that the rurals were the majority who turfed the NDP in favour of the UCP. The UCP offered to put more police in rural areas, but started charging all rural municipalities with a population of 5,000 or less for that luxury, whether they got any additional “boots on the ground” or not. Many are still wondering what they are paying for since the billing started prior to any additional police being assigned. The UCP is currently in a heated battle with doctors across the province where many rural doctors are shutting down their offices and leaving rural hospitals without adequate coverage. The UCP seem to have forgotten the farmers who grow the grain and raise the cattle that feed the world. Those farmers have been suffering for five years with no provincial support. Now the Federal government picking an unwinnable fight with China hasn’t helped our farmers out, but then neither has Mother Nature. And now the UCP are proposing assessment changes that will force rural municipalities to jack residential taxes to unheard of levels, or cut staff or reduce services to unacceptable levels. Kenney and his government have to know the cities, especially Edmonton, can be swayed to vote for a party other than them. Right now there seems to be a two party system in this province, and rural Alberta will not tolerate an NDP government as we saw in the last election. But the Kenney government had better start paying a little attention to the rural parts of the province with an eye towards making life better, before a third party comes along with some concrete proposals to help out our farmers and rural municipalities and scoops up those rural votes.
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FROM WHERE I SIT: Get it right
BY HAZEL ANAKA As I caught up reading about a week’s worth of Edmonton Journals, a few things crossed my mind. The first being, thank God for newspapers. I’m old enough to remember the heyday of that news media. A time when a daily like the Journal had several sections, a recognizable stable of writers and columnists, mostly local content, and pages of ads. If the topic was big enough or important enough, special sections or multipage investigative reports appeared. News rooms have been gutted by the change in news delivery, lower ad sales, dwindling readerships, and dumbed-down reader habits. Who’s got time to read a half-page story when a pithy Tweet or a meme can tell you all you need to know about an event? First TV news and then the 24-hour news cycle were the biggest competition. Then Facebook and Twitter took a huge
toll. Hell, today you’ve got major politicians announcing their candidacy via Facebook videos. Unless we make a concerted effort otherwise, our understanding of current issues is a mile wide and an inch deep. Only detailed reporting can provide the level of background detail, opposing opinions, quotes from sources and experts that serve to round out our understanding of complex and nuanced topics. Too many believe if they hear a soundbite or see some particularly shocking images they’ve got the story; the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Case in point. I saw the Kielburger brothers’ testimony before the Commons finance committee, saw the resulting TV stories and pundit panels. (Smarmy, arrogant, and beyond belief are some words that spring to mind). But it is newspapers that provide the rich detail and continue digging and shedding light on this stinky mess. A couple eyeopeners: it appears “someone” hired people to manipulate Google
search results by clicking and staying on positive WE stories in an effort to drive down the ranking of negative ones (like one linking WE to companies using child and slave labour in their supply chain). And occasionally WE staffers would edit Wikipedia entries about the charity, foundation, and founders to the point where it essentially became “paid marketing content.” Other stories inform us of the complexity of their organization’s structure, significant real estate holdings, quotes from the former Board Chair who was asked to resign when her questions about WE’s financials annoyed the Kielburgers. By the way, you will be shocked to learn that WE only began paying the Trudeau clan to speak after Justin became PM. Surely, that’s just an unfortunate coincidence. From reading the paper I also learned that the Bighorn wilderness area in Clearwater County is being overrun by ignorant and inexperienced campers. Up to 40,000 people are showing up, which dwarfs the usual 10,000 for the May long weekend. Litter
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Continued from Page 3 “I haven’t heard any word from any level of government in regard to assistance.” “In my mind the agricultural industry is the key component here and that’s the one that should be focussed on.” And he has nothing but praise for the County of Lamont residents. “I would like to thank our Lamont County residents. It’s been a trying time for them. They’ve had to detour, they’ve had to incur the weather issues, but for the most part they have been patient and understanding. I would like to thank them for that and ask for a little more of that patience and understanding.”
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FEATURED LISTINGS PROPERTIES LAMONT COUNTY Modern Industrial Shop • 15,000 sq ft Industrial shop built on 42.8 acres in Lamont County adjacent to the town of Lamont. Shop was built in 2006 with drive thru bays and has 24’ clear ceilings, 16’ by 16’ doors, floor sumps, exhaust fans, tool crib, 5-ton bridge crane, 600 amp power and 1,500 sq ft of office space. Site has access to highways 29, 15, 831. There is 15 acres of gravelled yard with chain link fencing. located at 195043 HWY 29 Lamont County. Price $3,175,000 • N1/2 of NE ¼ -7-53-18-W4 71.80 acres 8.77 acres yard with chain link fence, partially gravelled, power, 4 yard lights, could be commercial use if proper permit is obtained. Balance of parcel is fenced with 5 wire and 4 wire. 35± acres of hay. Corner of HWY 16 and RR 185. Price $399,000. Seller is a licensed Realtor™ in the province of Alberta • W4-18-54-10 SW ¼ 160 acres 110± cultivated acres. RR 183 between TWP RD 540 and 542 price: $320,000 • Parcel #1 Plan: 0826846 Block 1 Lot 2 Parcel #2 Plan: 0826846 Block 1 Lot 3 156.60 acres total 145 combined cultivated acres RR 175 and TWP 544 Price: $575,000 • RR 184 and TWP RD 540 85.43 acres SOLD • Range Road 184 and Township Road 540 66.47 acres
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FARM LAND IN CHIPMAN • 359.75 acres total consisting of: SE ¼ 29-54-18-W4 121.45 acres 100± cultivated, S ½ of SW ¼ -20-54-18-W4 80 acres Hay and trees. NW ¼, 20-54-18-W4 158.3 acres 80± cultivated Price $700,000
BEAVER COUNTY • W4-16-4836-SW 160 acres near Holden. Small house, power, gas, and septic system well treed yard. Price $419,000.00 • W4-19-51-15-SE ¼ 155.9 acres usable for pasture of hay near Tofield. Fenced and cross fenced with multiple water sources. RR 192 and TWP Rd 512 Price: $519,000
TWO HILLS COUNTY RECREATION LAND • Price Reduced! W4-12-55-27 NW 146 acres with 1/2-mile frontage on the North Saskatchewan river. HWY 29 and RR 123 50± acres of cultivation power at property Nicely treed lot for a building site. Price $350,000
STRATHCONA COUNTY HOBBY FARM • Price Reduced 53142 RGE RD 224 40.03 acres with 35 ± cultivation. 1950 built 1000 sq ft bungalow on property with large shop and various other buildings. Future local industrial zoning on property and located in Bremner concept plan. Price $1,595,000
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A beaver checks out the water in a dug out near Mundare recently.
School buses, that will help transport up to 3,000 children to and from school everyday, are lined up in the Hrehorets bus yard in Lamont. Additional measures to help prevent the spread of COVID while on the bus include a face shield and mask for the driver, hand sanitizer placed in the hands of every student as they board the bus, as well as additional sanitizing of each bus after every drop off.
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Viability of municipalities at stake with new provincial proposal BY JOHN MATHER Lamont County Reeve David Diduck worries about the viability of several Alberta municipalities if proposed assessment changes by the provincial government go ahead without any amendments to them. “When the government moved ahead with this committee they said they wanted to enhance industry competitiveness by reviewing the taxation model,” he said. “But they also said they wanted to enhance community viability. “The message we have to get across is that this model as being proposed will not enhance community viability. “In fact it could have
the exact opposite affect where certain municipalities in the province may have trouble surviving a few years out.” He pointed to Northern Sunrise County where residential mill rates would have to increase by 200 to 500 per cent, or its staff would have to be reduced by 80 per cent. He added municipalities could be forced into merger creating larger municipalities. “I think that’s a very distinct possibility, but I hope that’s not the long term goal of government.” There are municipalities, he said which have reserves and could survive, but others are not
in that position. “In our cases we have some reserves due to the prudent management of previous councils but not all municipalities are like that. Diduck adds being situated at the eastern end of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland can also provide a small amount of comfort for the County. But, he stressed, it’s nice to be in the Heartland but it would be nicer if the County could get some firm development commitments for the land. “Like with anything else it would be much nicer if some final investment decisions had been made,” he said. “You
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Province makes it easier for hunters and trappers - says MLA Dear friends and neighbours: I hope you’ve been enjoying the most recent heat wave and have been able to get out to explore our fantastic constituency. Speaking of exploring, hunting season is not far away and Alberta’s government has made some major changes to enhance the hunting industry. Alberta is updating the Wildlife Regulation to improve wildlife conservation, create and enhance hunting and angling opportunities for hunters and trappers, and provide economic relief for outfitters. The outfitting industry directly employs nearly 3,000 people, generates $116 million in labour income, and contributes over $328 million to Alberta’s economy. Hunting and trapping
have always been key tools for managing wildlife in Alberta. These changes will give hunters and trappers clarity on rules, while also providing them with more opportunities to get outdoors and do what they love. We want outdoorsmen to spend more time in the outdoors and less time filing paperwork. These changes will provide temporary economic relief to guideoutfitters due to border restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alberta resident hunters will be temporarily allowed to hold hunting licenses and participate in guided hunts that are normally designated for non-resident hunters who come from the United States to go on a guided tour. Guide-outfitters will also be able to register
and report sheep harvests on behalf of their clients, creating a more efficient process for international hunters to register their rams. The Alberta Professional Outfitters Society will also be able to refund hunting allocation and use fees back to guide-outfitters that have been unable to use them. Alberta’s outfitting industry is an important contributor to Alberta’s tourism and the economies in rural communities throughout
Alberta and these changes will help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic. These new wildlife regulations will also address fees, licenses, reporting requirements and other rules for hunting and trapping in the province. The news changes will Introduce specific penalties for new offences under the Wildlife Regulation, including a new penalty of $500 for feeding dangerous wildlife, like bears. This ensures safety for
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Farmers give meat regulation changes mixed reviews BY JANA SEMENIUK Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen announced changes to Alberta’s meat inspection regulations on July 30, that he said will benefit the livestock industry. Changes to the regulations include allowing consumers to purchase an animal direct from the farm and have it processed on site for individual consumption, allowing for video inspections of animals to be slaughtered in emergency situations, as well as allowing provincially licensed meat facilities to salvage and sell meat byproducts for human consumption, pet food and wildlife bait. “These regulations resulted in a nearly 30
per cent reduction in the red tape for Alberta’s meat industry and an increase of over $26 million annually to Alberta’s livestock industry,” said Dreeshen. Fort SaskatchewanVegreville MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk joined Dreeshen during the announcement and felt enthusiastic that the new regulations would benefit local famers. “We will be providing Albertans with a greater access to locally produced meat while maintaining food safety,” she said during an interview on Aug. 7. “These changes will also create a better relationship between ranchers, farmers and Albertans.” Previous regulations allowed for farmers to
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Margetta Dzwienka (L), landowner, Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen (R) and Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville MLA Jackie ArmstrongHomeniuk (C) are gathered near Vegreville to deliver an announcement changing the regulations around provincial meat inspections on July 29.
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does mine. As a matter of fact, my own family can not legally take meat home from the farm that has been processed here,” commented Facebook user Robert Rancher. Frank Cholak, a cattle farmer in Lamont County, breeds purebred cattle. Although he is not focused on the consumption side of cattle farming, he admits that his family still butchers one or two a year for their own use and is not warm to the idea of selling uninspected meat to consumers. “If we sell an animal off the farm, from a cull for example, it would basically be taken into an abattoir where there is a licensed inspector on site, then you don’t have a problem,” he said. “We don’t do it now (sell uninspected meat) and I don’t see us doing it in the future. I don’t want to take the chance of selling uninspected meat.” Armstrong-Homeniuk went on to explain that the uninspected meat sales are for individual use only and not for resale. “While on-farm slaughter or field dressing is less hygienic than inside an abattoir, this
process can be conducted safely as demonstrated by mobile butchers and hunters across the country,” she said in a recent email. “It is anticipated that farmers will continue to be transparent and provide information to their customers on their animal husbandry and meat processing practices.” Armstrong-Homeniuk acknowledged that the
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