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Plotkin, Howard. "The Iron Creek Meteorite: The Curious History of the Manitou Stone and the Claim for its Repatriation." Earth Sciences History 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 150–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.33.1.2457k54466405851.
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Canada's Iron Creek meteorite, a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron, was long venerated by the First Nations in Alberta as their sacred Manitou Stone, but it was taken without authority from them by Methodist missionaries in 1866. That began the meteorite's long odyssey, as it was transferred first to the Methodist Mission in Victoria (now Pakan) Alberta; then to the Red River Mission in Winnipeg, Manitoba; then to the Wesleyan Methodist Church's Mission Rooms in Toronto, Ontario; then to Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario; then to the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario; then to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; and finally to the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum) in Edmonton. In recent years, a First Nations movement to repatriate the meteorite to a place near its original find site has been initiated. As of now, the meteorite remains on display at the Royal Alberta Museum's Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, where it is a prized showpiece. The present paper explores the curious history and cultural significance of this fabled meteorite, its long odyssey, the issues surrounding the claims for its repatriation, the Royal Alberta Museum's present policy, and a possible way forward.
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Currie, Philip J., and Eva B. Koppelhus. "The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, no. 8 (August 2015): 620–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2014-0173.
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Significant specimens of theropod dinosaurs were part of the collections that were transferred to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology when it split off from the Provincial Museum of Alberta in 1981. Collecting activity of the institution increased dramatically in the period leading up to the opening of the building and displays in 1985, and resulted in the recovery and preparation of many fine theropod skeletons. New specimens have been added to the collection every year since the museum opened. Several (mostly small) taxa are only represented by isolated bones, partial skeletons, and (or) teeth. Theropod specimens also include footprints, coprolites, eggs, and feathers in amber. Although theropods are relatively rare in comparison with herbivorous dinosaurs, the Tyrrell has managed to build one of the finest research collections of Late Cretaceous forms. Thirty-seven species of theropods in the Tyrrell are currently accepted as being valid, of which 30 are from the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Alberta.
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Monaghan, Nigel T. "The Irish Giant Deer or "Irish Elk"." Geological Curator 6, no. 4 (September 1995): 171–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc506.
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The antlers of the late Pleistocene giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach 1799) adorn the walls of many a stately home throughout Ireland and Britain. They are also widespread in museum collections, having attracted attention for centuries as the largest antlers of any animal, living or extinct. One example is documented back to about 1588 when Adam Loftus of Rathfamham Castle in south County Dublin made a drawing (now preserved in the National Museum of Ireland NMING : GLM26) of a specimen sent by him to Sir Henry Cecil, Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth 1. The antlers have survived and are on exhibition in the Provincial Museum of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (P. Doughty pers. comm. 1990).
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Pattie, D. L. "Smith, H. C. 1993. ALBERTA MAMMALS: AN ATLAS AND GUIDE. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, xii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-7732-1073-3. Price (cloth), $24.95." Journal of Mammalogy 75, no. 2 (May 31, 1994): 557–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1382584.
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Eberth, David A. "Origins of dinosaur bonebeds in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, no. 8 (August 2015): 655–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2014-0200.
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Upper Cretaceous dinosaur bonebeds are common in Alberta, Canada, and have attracted continuous scientific attention since the 1960s. Since its inception, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology has documented the presence of hundreds of these sites and has been involved directly in the scientific study of many tens. Because many of these bonebeds have been used to address questions about the paleobiology and paleoecology of dinosaurs, questions have arisen about bonebed origins and preservation in the Cretaceous of Alberta. This study of 260 bonebeds delineates broad paleoenvironmental settings and associations, and taphonomic signatures of assemblages as a first step in assessing patterns of dinosaur bonebed origins in the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. Bonebeds are known predominantly from the Belly River Group and the Horseshoe Canyon, lower St. Mary River, Wapiti, and Scollard formations. In these units, bonebeds are mostly associated with river channel and alluvial wetland settings that were influenced by a subtropical to warm-temperate, monsoonal climate. Most bonebeds formed in response to flooding events capable of killing dinosaurs, reworking and modifying skeletal remains, and burying taphocoenoses. The “coastal-plain-flooding hypothesis,” proposed in 2005, suggested that many bonebeds in the Dinosaur Park Formation formed in response to the effects of recurring coastal-plain floods that submerged vast areas of ancient southern Alberta on a seasonal basis. It remains the best mechanism to explain how many of the bonebeds were formed and preserved at Dinosaur Provincial Park, and here, is proposed as the mechanism that best explains bonebed origins in other Upper Cretaceous formations across central and southern Alberta.
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Zion, William P. "Seasons of Celebration: Ritual in Eastern Christian Culture David J. Goa Edmonton, AB: Provincial Museum of Alberta, 1986. vi + 57 p." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 17, no. 3 (September 1988): 386–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842988801700338.
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CHRISTISON, BRIGID E., DARREN H. TANKE, and JORDAN C. MALLON. "CANADA'S FIRST KNOWN DINOSAURS: PALAEONTOLOGY AND COLLECTING HISTORY OF UPPER CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATES IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN, 1874–1889." Earth Sciences History 39, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 184–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-39.1.184.
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The early collecting history of dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates in Western Canada during the 1870s and 1880s is poorly documented. Initial finds were made by the British North American Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada in modern Saskatchewan and Alberta but, beyond a few well-publicized examples, little is known about precisely what was found and where. Much of the collected material is now housed in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Gatineau, Quebec, and a recent survey of these historic finds allows for the first comprehensive narrative regarding their identity and procurement. The collection is heavily biased towards vertebral centra and phalanges, reflective of both taphonomic and collecting biases. Given current understanding of Upper Cretaceous assemblages of North America, ornithomimids and small theropods are overrepresented, whereas ceratopsids and ankylosaurs are underrepresented. Fossils from the Belly River Group are best represented, after repeated visits to the areas of present-day Dinosaur Provincial Park and Ross Coulee near Irvine, Alberta. Taxonomic identification of the material has yielded numerous first Canadian occurrences, in addition to some first global occurrences. The latter include the first ever occurrences of Caenagnathidae (1884) and Thescelosauridae (1889). The Upper Cretaceous fossil record of Western Canada is among the richest in the world, and has been thoroughly studied over the last century. These fossils have informed our understanding of dinosaur behaviour, taphonomy, ecology, diversity dynamics, and extinction, among other aspects. But, like the animals themselves, the story of Canada's dinosaur-hunting legacy had humble beginnings—a story that has not been fully revealed before now.
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Pannekoek, Frits. "Visual History Review: Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, Provincial Museum of Alberta. Principal curators Jack Brink and Susan Berry. Permanent Gallery. November 1997 to present." Canadian Historical Review 82, no. 2 (June 2001): 348–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/chr.82.2.348.
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Brinkman, Paul. "Red Deer River shakedown: a history of the Captain Marshall field paleontological expedition to Alberta, 1922, and its aftermath." Earth Sciences History 32, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 204–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.32.2.n450m52t2964730k.
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A Field Museum expedition to collect Late Cretaceous dinosaurs operated for three and a half months in the summer of 1922 in the Red Deer River badlands (Oldman and Dinosaur Park formations, Belly River Group) in an area now known as Dinosaur Provincial Park in southern Alberta, Canada. Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Elmer S. Riggs led the expedition. He was ably assisted by veteran collectors George F. Sternberg and John B. Abbott. A trio of novice collectors, Anthony Dombrosky, George Bedford and C. Harold Riggs, Elmer's youngest son, rounded out the party. The expedition was a success, netting several quality specimens of duckbilled dinosaurs; one small, partial theropod skeleton; an unidentified duckbilled dinosaur skull; four turtles; other miscellaneous fossil vertebrate remains; numerous fossil plants and invertebrates; and a large fossil log. In 1956, one of these specimens—a nearly complete lambeosaurine hadrosaur reconstructed as Lambeosaurus—debuted as the less fortunate partner of Gorgosaurus in the museum's iconic ‘Dinosaurs, Predator and Prey’ exhibit in Stanley Field Hall. Both of these specimens are still on display in a permanent exhibit called ‘Evolving Planet’. Another notable specimen prepared in 1999-2000 after nearly eighty years in an unopened field jacket has been identified as a juvenile Gorgosaurus. This specimen—nicknamed ‘Elmer’—was recently touring the globe as part of the ‘Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries’ exhibit. More importantly, the expedition was an invaluable shakedown experience for the fossil hunting crew and their new equipment in the months before they left on an ambitious, multi-year fossil mammal collecting expedition to Argentina and Bolivia. An oft-repeated myth holds that Riggs viewed the Alberta expedition as a failure and departed the field the moment he obtained permission to go to South America. This paper shows that myth to be unfounded.
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Erickson, Gregory M., Philip J. Currie, Brian D. Inouye, and Alice A. Winn. "A revised life table and survivorship curve for Albertosaurus sarcophagus based on the Dry Island mass death assemblageThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Albertosaurus." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47, no. 9 (September 2010): 1269–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e10-051.
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In 1910 a crew from the American Museum of Natural History discovered a bone bed composed primarily of the large tyrannosaurid Albertosaurus sarcophagus in what is now Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. Study of the remains from the site allowed the first life table and survivorship curve for a non-avian dinosaur to be created. These have served as a model for subsequent studies of dinosaurian population biology. Since 2006, the discovery and preparation of hundreds of new elements from the bone bed stand to substantially increase the minimum number of individuals (MNI) represented. This would allow testing of previous conclusions regarding the population biology of these animals and refinement of our understanding of the patterns of survivorship. Here, four formerly unrecognized individuals from the Dry Island assemblage are revealed and a revised life table presented. As in the previous analysis, a left skewed age distribution and sigmoidal survivorship pattern were found. Annual mortality rates averaged 3.47% between ages two and 13 and then increased to a mean of 19.5% prior to extinction of the cohort after 28 years of age. Mean life expectancy for individuals surviving to two years of age was 15.19 years. Mid-life increase in attrition corresponds to entrance into the breeding population. The MNI is unlikely to substantially increase, and new individuals are unlikely to affect the pattern of survivorship inferred here. Nevertheless, future excavations stand to reveal more about the anatomical and pathological variance within the Dry Island Albertosaurus population.
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Emes, Bryan R. "Provincial Royalties and Credits." Alberta Law Review 27, no. 1 (March 1, 1988): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr711.
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This paper is current to May 1988. It reviews the fiscal regimes under which royalties and production-related taxes are imposed in Alberta. Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Its focus is on recent changes to gas royalties, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where significant revisions have recently taken place. The Alberta Royalty Tax Credit is also reviewed.
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McMahon, Kathryn. "The Hargeisa Provincial Museum." African Arts 21, no. 3 (May 1988): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336446.
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Campbell, Ian A. "BADLANDS OF DINOSAUR PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA." Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien 31, no. 1 (March 1987): 82–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1987.tb01592.x.
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Taylor, Linda A., and David M. Wood. "Equitable Jurisdiction of the Provincial Court of Alberta (Civil Division)." Alberta Law Review 35, no. 3 (July 1, 1997): 592. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr1051.
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This article is concerned with the issue of whether the Provincial Court of Alberta (Civil Division) possesses any equitable jurisdiction. The authors first provide a history of equity and its fusion with law, and the impact of that fusion in Canada. The authors then examine the jurisdiction of the Provincial Court of Alberta (Civil Division) and conclude that, as an inferior statutory court, it can have no inherent substantive jurisdiction, only an inherent procedural jurisdiction. However, the Legislature can enlarge the Court's jurisdiction by statute (although the authors point out that there are limits on the jurisdiction that can be granted to an inferior statutory court). The authors then argue that, contrary to common belief, the Provincial Court of Alberta (Civil Division) does possess a limited equitable jurisdiction. They base this submission first on the wording of the Alberta Provincial Court Act, which allows the court to hear and adjudicate any claim for debt or damages (and unlike in other Alberta statutes, the Court in those situations is not specifically barred from granting equitable relief). Secondly, they submit that the granting of limited equitable jurisdiction is necessarily incidental to the achievement of broad policy goals related to the establishment of the Court. Finally, the authors compare the jurisdiction of the Provincial Court of Alberta (Civil Division) to that of the Small Claims Courts in Ontario and British Columbia.
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Cobelj, Stefanja. "The Provincial Museum of Hargeisa." Museum International 38, no. 3 (September 1986): 150–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0033.1986.tb00633.x.
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O’Byrne, Nicole C. "“No other weapon except organization”: The Métis Association of Alberta and the 1938 Metis Population Betterment Act." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 24, no. 2 (May 15, 2014): 311–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1025081ar.
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In the 1930s, the Métis Association of Alberta (MAA) successfully lobbied the provincial government to establish a royal commission to inquire into the socio-economic conditions affecting the Métis living in Alberta. The MAA strongly advocated that land be set aside so that the Métis could continue to pursue their traditional economic livelihoods of hunting, trapping, and fishing. Following the recommendation of the Ewing Commission, the provincial government passed the 1938 Metis Population Betterment Act, which provided for Métis land settlements. These lands represent the first time in Canadian history that a provincial government set aside land in response to Métis claims. The MAA and provincial government both agreed on the land grant, but for different reasons. The Métis were motivated by historical claims to redress failed government policies such as the Métis scrip program and to protect land rights from the further incursion of non-Aboriginal settlement. By contrast, the provincial government saw the land grant as an expedient and inexpensive way to distribute relief to one of the province’s poorest populations. This paper illuminates the Alberta government’s response to the political lobbying efforts of the MAA in the 1930s to address the question of why Alberta was the first (and only) Canadian province to set aside Métis land settlements.
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Miller, Keith F., Erin R. Bourgeault, Curtis G. Bunz, and Patricia Quinton-Campbell. "Recent Legislative, Regulatory and Environmental Developments of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers." Alberta Law Review 34, no. 3 (May 1, 1996): 738. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr661.
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This article provides a brief review of recent legislative, regulatory and environmental developments of particular interest to oil and gas lawyers. Part Two of the article highlights specific legislative developments, including those affecting environmental regulation. Emphasis is placed on recent federal and Alberta legislative developments along with some noteworthy developments in British Columbia. Part Three considers regulatory developments in the context of recent tribunal decisions at both the federal and provincial levels. Federally, the article examines recent decisions by the National Energy Board. At the provincial level, decisions by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and the Alberta Public Utilities Board (now combined to form the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board) are considered.
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Johnston, Mark H., and Susan C. Calp. "Forest Land Use Planning in Alberta." Forestry Chronicle 62, no. 5 (October 1, 1986): 470–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc62470-5.
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Forest land use planning in Alberta takes place within the provincial Integrated Resource Planning system. The Alberta Forest Service is a major participant in this system as it is the primary resource management agency for Alberta's forested land. Several provincial land use policies direct forest-related land use, including the White and Green Areas, established in 1948, and the Eastern Slopes Policy adopted in 1977. More detailed and site specific resource management is guided through subregional and local planning. In total, these planning mechanisms provide for the comprehensive and integrated management of Alberta's forested land. Key words: Forest land use planning, integrated planning, planning in Alberta, resource management.
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Webber, Charles F. "Educational Change in Alberta, Canada." education policy analysis archives 3 (July 9, 1995): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v3n12.1995.
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Alberta, Canada, is the site of large-scale educational change initiatives legislated by the provincial government. The mandates have sparked heated public debate over the appropriateness, wisdom, and utility of the reforms. This article summarizes the views of representatives of several educational interest groups and offers suggestions for making change more meaningful and successful.
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Grothman, Gary T. "Tardigrades of Fish Creek Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada: A Preliminary Survey." Canadian Field-Naturalist 125, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i1.1117.
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Tardigrades are cosmopolitan animals with a patchy distribution record, largely due to the limited collection history for this phylum rather than actual rarity. Most Canadian records are from near coastal areas, with a few notable exceptions, most recently one study of tardigrades in central Alberta. The present study reports the occurrence of 12 species or species groups in Fish Creek Provincial Park in southern Alberta. Eight of these taxa are new records for Alberta, and two (Diphascon (Diphascon) granifer and Echiniscus granulatus) are new records for Canada.
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Fluker, Shaun, and Jocelyn Stacey. "The Basics of Species at Risk Legislation in Alberta." Alberta Law Review 50, no. 1 (August 1, 2012): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr269.
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This article examines Alberta’s Wildlife Act and the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) to assess the legal protection of endangered species in Alberta. Most of the discussion relates to provisions contained in SARA, as there is comparatively less to discuss under the Wildlife Act. The fact that legal protection for endangered species in Alberta consists primarily of federal statutory rules is unfortunate, as wildlife and its habitat are by and large property of the provincial Crown, and it is a general principle of constitutional law that the federal government cannot in substance legislate over provincial property under the guise of a regulatory scheme. The legal protections in SARA are, thus, for the most part restricted to species found on federal lands and to species that fall under federal legislative powers. This article demonstrates that the Alberta government has chosen to govern species at risk almost entirely by policy and discretionary power. The limited application of federal protections to provincial lands and the absence of meaningful protection in the Wildlife Act leads the authors to conclude that, despite a perception of legal protection for endangered species, such protection does not exist in Alberta.
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Molineaux, Connor. "Federal-Provincial Relations and Conservatism in the Canadian West." Federalism-E 17, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/fede.v17i1.13583.
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Regionalism has been a prominent feature of Western Canadian political culture even prior to Alberta and Saskatchewan joining confederation in 1905. One manifestation of this regionalism is through intergovernmental conflict, particularly jurisdictional disputes between the provincial and federal governments. These disputes have generally seen provincial governments of various ideological leanings cooperate, and yet decentralization–or expansion of provincial jurisdiction–is a position that has largely been advanced by conservatives in recent decade.1Is there an ideological connection between expansion of provincial jurisdiction and conservatism? This essay contends that the conservative ideology particular to Western Canada was uniquely influenced by the dynamic of federal-provincial relations in Canada because of particular features of the region’s brand of conservatism. This essay will demonstrate that ongoing disputes between western provinces–Alberta in particular–and the federal government, particularly over natural resource issues, have reinforced a dynamic of regionalism within Western Canadian conservatism, leading it to become the perennial feature of conservative policy, federally and provincially, that it is today.[...]
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Jacobs, Philip, and Alain Lesage. "The Public Cost of Mental Health– and Addiction-Related Services for Youth (Ages 12-17) in Alberta." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 64, no. 5 (August 29, 2018): 323–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0706743718795676.
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Objective: To measure the provincial government cost of mental health–related activities for youth ages 12 to 17 in Alberta in 2014 to 2015. Methods: The target population was Alberta youth ages 12 to 17 (the federal justice definition) who received or were funded for mental health–related or complementary services from Alberta Health Services, Alberta Health, Alberta Human Services, Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, and Alberta Education (public schools). Data on services and expenditures were obtained from each source for the target youth population. Results: Costs for mental health–related services for all ministries were $175 million for 27,169 youth who used mental health services as defined by Policy Wise, $6460 per youth. Public school special education supplements for youth with emotional problems was the largest group, amounting to 30% of all costs. Other prominent sources of expenditures were hospital inpatient mental health services (18%), community mental health services (11%), physician mental health services (10%), and secure services with treatment requiring judicial approval (9%). Conclusion: Economists in several countries have developed countrywide measures of mental health expenditures and have used these to generate national benchmarks for mental health spending. We have estimated spending for Alberta provincial mental health and addiction services for a distinct and highly vulnerable group. This measure can be used to develop measures and benchmarks for other provinces, which will be valuable policy indicators.
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Vorobiova, Olga Y. "Updating of cultural memory in provincial museum activities." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 1, no. 118 (2021): 195–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-1-118-195-201.
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The article presents understanding of the cultural memory phenomenon in the context of museum activity. Special attention is given to the mainstreaming of memory in provincial museum activities. Cultural memory is interpreted by the author as «history recreated in memory», appealing not to a specific event of the past, but to his image, formed in the minds of people. The work highlights the key characteristics of the museum as an institute of memory, determining its special role in the process of forming, broadcasting and updating cultural memory: working with genuine sources of information – museum objects; attractiveness and expressiveness of museum objects – the ability to attract the attention of the audience and have emotional impact; special atmosphere that allows the visitor to «plunge into the era» (this is especially characteristic of memorial, environmental museums and exhibitions built on the ensemble principle). The specificity of the provincial museum in the process of updating cultural memory is due to its special functions, primarily the function of identifying the local population. Based on the analysis of empirical material (the practice of the Uglich State Historical Architectural and Art Museum), the levels of memory updating in the activities of the provincial museum were revealed: national, regional and local, as well as forms of updating. Key and at the same time traditional forms of memory updating in the provincial museum are expositions, exhibitions, lectures, local history meetings. New forms of memory updating include educational (interactive) programs and festivals (museum holidays). The author concludes that the issue of the formation and updating of cultural memory by the provincial museum itself remains insufficiently conscious.
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Lachance, Nathalie, and Teresa Rose. "More Than Words: Outlining Preconditions to Collaboration Among First Nations, the Federal Government, and the Provincial Government." International Indigenous Policy Journal 11, no. 2 (June 12, 2020): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2020.11.2.10692.
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Since 2015, there has been heightened interest in reconciliation and renewed relationships with Indigenous Peoples. Anchoring our work in the definition of reconciliation provided by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, we, as practitioner-scholars, sought to better understand the preconditions to collaboration among First Nations, the federal government, and the provincial government in Alberta. This participatory action research was conducted with mid- to senior-level public servants, who were involved in the further development and implementation of the 2014 Joint Action Plan to Improve the Health of First Nations in Alberta, in either First Nations, the federal government, or the provincial government. This article concludes that collaboration must consider the negative legacy of relationships between First Nations and federal and provincial governments, as well as between First Nations and settlers.
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Huopainen, Raili. "Managing change: the Provincial Museum of Lapland." Museum International 46, no. 2 (June 1994): 30–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0033.1994.tb01167.x.
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Forsyth, Robert G., and Dwayne A. W. Lepitzki. "Terrestrial snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada." Check List 11, no. 3 (April 22, 2015): 1636. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.3.1636.
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There are few studies on the terrestrial molluscs of the Great Plains of Alberta. Nearly all previously published surveys have focused on the faunas of the Rocky Mountain Foothills, the Cypress Hills, the Parklands of Central Alberta, or the boreal forests. By means of hand-picking and litter samples, we surveyed for the first time the terrestrial snail fauna in the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta, Canada. From among the hoodoos (weathered rock formations) and along the cliffs on the north side of the Milk River, we found terrestrial snails at four of our five sites within the hot, dry valley of the river. Our study confirms our assumptions that the terrestrial snail fauna in these hostile habitats lacks diversity.
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Nielsen, Niels Løgager. "Museer i oprør – Provinsmuseerne og Nationalmuseet i en brydningstid." Kuml 50, no. 50 (August 1, 2001): 111–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kuml.v50i50.103159.
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Museum crisisThe provincial museums and the National Museum at a time of changeSophus Müller (1846-1934) was one of the more controversial leaders in the Danish museum world. He was employed as a museum keeper at the Old Nordic Museum in 1885 in connection with the death of its renowned leader, J.J.A. Worsaae, who was succeeded by C.F. Herbst. The new keeper was entrusted with many administrative tasks, one of which was the handling of the relationship between the National Museum and the then seven provincial museums: Ribe (founded 1855), Århus (1860), Odense (1860), Viborg (1861), Aalborg (1865), Randers (1872), and Maribo (1879).The relation ship between the former museum leaders – C.J. Thomsen and Worsaae – and the provincial museums had been characterised by mutual respect and helpfulness, but with Sophus Müller the relations became strained and marked by conflicts (figs. 1-2).From 1885, the provincial museums applied annually for state subsidies on the grounds that they wanted to prevent the trade and export of artefacts. In April 1887, the Ministry for Ecclesiastical and Educational Affairs brought out a report stating the future rules for state subsidy for provincial museums. These rules were drawn up by Sophus Müller and discussed at a meeting in Aalborg in 1887 – the first joint meeting between museums of cultural history in the country. The representative of the provincial museums was Gustav Lotze from the muse um in Odense. He was especially concerned about the demand of state supervision with the provincial museums. Nevertheless, the museums were unprepared and so the outcome of the meeting was a bland letter to the ministry, which consequently paid no attention to the approach (fig. 3).Sophus Müller’s administration of the 1887-rules was strongly challenged by many provincial museums, who resented the lack of cooperation, the trammels concerning the right to carry out excavations and the duty to hand over important finds to the museum in Copenhagen. The last issue especially caused concern and frustration, but it never became a topic at the official meetings between the leaders of the National Museum and the provincial museums, which took place in Århus in 1894 and in Copenhagen in 1897. The frustration thus never led to any change in the conditions for the provincial museums, mainly because the museum leaders disagreed about the demands to be made on the National Museum. In 1912, the same negative destiny befell an excessive proposal from the museum in Randers (figs. 4-5).Sophus Miüller was a competent archaeologist, but his managerial style regarding administration was never popular with the provincial museum s nor with the National Museum staff Also, he was extremely unpopular with most of the antique dealers trading in artefacts allover the country. Of these and the farmhands that plundered the burial mounds he was an implacable enemy. Sophus Müller never learned how to tackle these people, nor did he ever understand their way of thinking. In this respect he had great support from the provincial museums and from the few private individuals that acted as the links between him and the population (figs. 6-7).The era when Sophus Müller was the leader of the Danish museum system was also one of great change in the Danish society. Industry was booming and about to bring new wealth to the country and both the formations of parties and the democratisation process were developing. Sophus Müller, who was a genuine Copenhagener and very conservative, found it difficult to keep up with these changes. The fact that the farmers were gaining power through ”venstre” (a Danish Liberal political party) troubled him (fig. 8). Another problem was his severe hardness of hearing, which contributed to isolating him from the social life. Consequently, he devoted him self to work and research.Sophus Müller continued his archaeological research for many years following his retirement in 1921. His last work, a treatise on the Iron Age, was published in 1933. He died a few months later, in February the following year.Niels Løgager NielsenGasmuseetTranslated by Annette Lerche Trolle
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Smith, L. E., Marie H. Buchinski, and And Deirdre A. Sheehan. "Recent Regulatory and Legislative Developments of Interest to Energy Lawyers." Alberta Law Review 48, no. 2 (December 1, 2010): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr160.
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This article identifies recent regulatory and legislative developments of interest to oil and gas lawyers. The authors survey a variety of subject areas, examining decisions of key regulatory agencies such as the National Energy Board, the Ontario Energy Board, the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, the Alberta Surface Rights Board, and the Alberta Utilities Commission, as well as related court decisions. In addition, the authors review a variety of key policy and legislative changes from the federal and provincial levels.
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Pinchbeck, B. R., J. Kirdeikis, and A. B. R. Thomson. "Economic Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Alberta." Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 2, no. 2 (1988): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1988/654517.
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This paper attempts to estimate the cost of inflammatory bowel disease (IBO) to the health care system of Alberta. In the 1015 patients responding to a questionnaire, two types of direct costs were compared to provincial averages; physicians' fees and hospital costs. Costs were calculated using the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan prescribed billing races. The 15-to 24-year-old age group exhibited the highest annual physician fees. This was probably due to the high incidence rate of IBD in this group. The mean cost per patient-year for Crohn's disease was estimated to be $4400 and the mean cost for ulcerative colitis was estimated to be $3020; this did not include outpatient laboratory or radiological investigations, and as such represents an underestimation of the total costs to the health care system. However, only a small minority of the patients were using a large majority of the resources: for example, for both Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, 7% of the patients accounted for 69% of hospital days. The average hospital and physician associated costs declined markedly with duration of the disease. It is estimated that the future cost of IBO to the provincial health care system (the percentage of the provincial health care budget used to diagnose and treat IBO) will double from 1985 to 2000. This underscores the need for continued and expanded research into the cause and treatment of IBO, and the importance of maintaining a health care system which can respond to the needs of these patients.
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Newman, Stephen C., and Roger C. Bland. "Month of Birth and Schizophrenia in Alberta." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 33, no. 8 (November 1988): 705–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378803300806.
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Numerous studies have demonstrated that a greater than expected number of schizophrenics are born during the winter months. The present investigation examined this phenomenon in Alberta. The study population consisted of 1,101 schizophrenic patients admitted to either of the two provincial mental hospitals during 1976–1983 and who were born in Canada. After controlling for year of birth, no seasonality effect was found.
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Baron, Timothy. "Key Learning From a Provincial (Alberta) Health Organization's Experience in Implementing a Provincial Obesity Plan." Canadian Journal of Diabetes 37 (April 2013): S237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjd.2013.03.131.
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Carbyn, Lu, Robin Leech, and Gary Ash. "The Evolution of Biological Societies in Alberta." Canadian Field-Naturalist 124, no. 4 (October 1, 2010): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v124i4.1104.
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At present, four organizations serve biologists in Alberta: The Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society (ACTWS), The Alberta Native Plants Council (ANPC), The Alberta Society of Professional Biologists (ASPB), and The Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists (CSEB). Only the ASPB is a professional regulatory organization, two of the others (CSEB and ACTWS) have their origins in the Canadian Society of Wildlife and Fisheries Biologists (CSWFB) while ANPC is a non-regulatory society with independent origin. A fifth organization, the Canadian Chapter of Society for Conservation Biology, is being organized through initiatives resulting from the 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology, held in Edmonton in July 2010. Its role in Canada is not yet defined. The first biological society to function in Alberta was a chapter of The Canadian Society of Wildlife and Fisheries Biologists (CSWFB). After 10 years this organization morphed into the CSEB when the hopes of creating a professional status faded. This change forced the CSPB towards forming a professional voice on resource use, and towards a communication medium for biological resource management. Biological consulting firms proliferated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, coinciding with provincial and federal governments forming departments of the environment. Pressures from these events created a perceived need by some biologists for a self-regulating, professional organization, which comes under provincial jurisdiction. To this end, the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists (ASPB) formed in 1975, and in 1991 received its Professional Biologist title status (P.Biol.) for members under the Societies Act of Alberta. The Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society (ACTWS) was formed in 1989; its focus was on research, science and wildlife management.
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Menon, Devidas, Frank Fung, Christa Harstall, and Petra O'Connell. "The Development of a Health Technology Assessment Program: The Case of Alberta." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 11, no. 1 (1995): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300005286.
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AbstractCanada comprises 10 provinces and 2 territories. The Constitution assigns responsibility for the provision of health services in the provinces to provincial governments. Over the past 5 years, provincial governments have identified technology assessment as a priority. This paper describes an initiative taken by the government of the province of Alberta to develop a health technology assessment program for that province.
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Payenberg, Tobias HD, Dennis R. Braman, Donald W. Davis, and Andrew D. Miall. "Litho- and chronostratigraphic relationships of the SantonianCampanian Milk River Formation in southern Alberta and Eagle Formation in Montana utilising stratigraphy, UPb geochronology, and palynology." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 10 (October 1, 2002): 1553–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-050.
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UPb geochronology, palynology, and lithostratigraphy were employed on the Late Cretaceous rocks in southern Alberta and Montana to solve litho- and chronostratigraphic correlation problems. In the outcrop area around Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta, the Milk River Formation has a Santonian to possibly very earliest Campanian age and was deposited between ~84.5 Ma and 83.5 Ma. In southern Montana, the Eagle Formation was deposited from ~83.5 Ma to 81.2 Ma, and contains different lithologies and depositional environments as opposed to southern Alberta. In north-central Montana, the Telegraph Creek Formation and Virgelle and Deadhorse Coulee members are equivalent in depositional environments and time to those of the Milk River Formation in southern Alberta. The upper Eagle member, however, has no time- or facies-equivalent rocks around Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, but is time equivalent to the Alderson Member of the Lea Park Formation in southeastern Alberta. A hiatus of ~2.5 Ma is present between the top of the Milk River Formation in the outcrop area and the basal beds of the Pakowki Formation. The Pakowki transgression occurred at around 81.0 Ma based on a UPb zircon age of 80.7 ± 0.2 Ma from bentonite beds just above the bottom of the Pakowki Formation in southern Alberta. This age agrees with previous ages of 80.7 ± 0.6 Ma for the Ardmore Bentonite Beds and ~81.0 Ma for the Claggett transgression in southern Montana.
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Swallow, Brent M., and Thomas W. Goddard. "Developing Alberta’s greenhouse gas offset system within Canadian and international policy contexts." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8, no. 3 (May 16, 2016): 318–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-04-2015-0040.
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Purpose This paper aims to track the development of climate policy in the province of Alberta, Canada, particularly the province’s unique greenhouse gas emission offset mechanism. The analysis shows how the policy has influenced, and been influenced by, policy processes at the national and international levels. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins with an analytical framework that recognizes different types of influence between international, national and provincial climate policy processes. That framework is used to structure a review of four historical periods of climate policy change: prior to 1992, 1992 to 2002, 2002 to 2012 and between 2012 and mid-2015. Findings The analysis illustrates the interplay between the Alberta approach to climate policy and the international and national policy contexts. A period of intense policy conflict between Canada’s federal and provincial governments led to a situation in which the Alberta Government sought to lead rather than follow national policy. Subsequent periods have seen the Canadian national government oscillate between following the lead of Alberta or the USA. Research limitations/implications Rather than national and international policies simply setting the context for Alberta’s policy, the paper identifies multiple flows of influence between the three levels of governance. The results illustrate the need to consider forward and backward flows of influence between the different levels of government that set climate change policies. Elements of several models of policy change are supported. Practical implications The Alberta climate mitigation policy has many elements that can be effective in reducing carbon emissions in a way that is both flexible and predictable. These elements are of interest to other jurisdictions. Other elements of the current policy, however, limit its effectiveness in reducing emissions. More concerted policy action is needed to mitigate carbon emissions in Alberta for Canada to meet its agreed targets. Originality/value No other paper has tracked the historical evolution of climate policy at the provincial/state level in a way that clarifies the forward and backward linkages with national and international policy.
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Winfield, Mark. "The Ultimate Horizontal Issue: The Environmental Policy Experiences of Alberta and Ontario, 1971–1993." Canadian Journal of Political Science 27, no. 1 (March 1994): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900006247.
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AbstractThis article summarizes the conclusions of a comparative study of the environmental policy experiences of two Canadian provinces, Alberta and Ontario, in the period 1971–1993. The examination led to the conclusion that there is a pattern of environmental politics and policy-making common to both provinces, although it emerges at a different pace. This divergence is a function of well-known societal differences between the two provinces. Furthermore, in the Ontario and Alberta experiences, the policy-making capacity of the state can be seen to be severely challenged by the cross-sectoral nature of environmental policy issues. A number of observations regarding the effects of federal-provincial relations and of American influences on environmental policy-making at the provincial level in Canada are also possible.
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von Heyking, Amy. "Fostering a Provincial Identity: Two Eras in Alberta Schooling [Abstract]." Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation 29, no. 4 (January 1, 2006): 1127. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20054213.
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Sayeed, Adil. "COVID-19 Blunts Alberta Challenge to Federal–Provincial Income Tax." Canadian Public Policy 46, s3 (October 1, 2020): S300—S306. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2020-073.
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Bryan, Rorke B., Ian A. Campbell, and Aaron Yair. "Postglacial geomorphic development of the Dinosaur Provincial Park badlands, Alberta." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 24, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-011.
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Experimental studies concerning current geomorphic processes and erosion rates in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, have not explained the unusual extent of badland development or prominent nonstructural near-horizontal surfaces that occur in the park. Two of these surfaces result from spillway development associated with Wisconsin deglaciation, and the extent of badland development is associated with major spillway concentration and exposure of highly erodible Cretaceous strata. A third surface is associated with erosion caused by locally generated runoff. All surfaces are blanketed with aeolian sands and silts deposited around 5500 BP, which profoundly affected the hydrology of the area and water and sediment discharge from the badlands to the Red Deer River. Subsequent stripping of the aeolian cover by streams, along with piping and tunnel erosion, has reexposed vulnerable Cretaceous strata and restored the high erosion rates now observed in these badlands.
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Boyd, Brendan. "A Province under Pressure: Climate Change Policy in Alberta." Canadian Journal of Political Science 52, no. 1 (September 21, 2018): 183–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423918000410.
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AbstractAlberta is responsible for over a third of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reducing the country's emissions requires policies and initiatives that reduce emissions in the province. Yet the study of provincial climate change policy in Canada has largely focused on lower-emitting provinces like British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario. This article argues that Alberta is best understood as a “reluctant actor” on climate change, whose policies are influenced by decisions and pressures from outside its borders. The literature on Canadian-American environmental policy making and international policy transfer are used to explore provincial GHG targets and carbon pricing policies. The article finds that Alberta's 2002 targets and Specified Gas Emitters Regulation were determined by economic competitiveness and leakage concerns, while the adoption of new GHG targets in 2008 and a carbon tax was the result of policy transfer through political bandwagoning and the desire for reputational benefits.
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Antipin, N. "«The Great terror» at the provincial museum, 1937." Bulletin of the South Ural State University Series «Social Sciences and the Humanities» 20, no. 01 (2020): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14529/ssh200103.
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Dykstra, T. L., and R. G. Ironside. "The Effects of the Division of the City of Lloydminster by the Alberta-Saskatchewan Inter-Provincial Boundary." Cahiers de géographie du Québec 16, no. 38 (April 12, 2005): 263–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/021056ar.
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The paper traces the effects of the superimposed inter-provincial boundary line on the development of Lloydminster. Duplication of public services, and other difficulties encouraged early efforts to amalgamate the community under one jurisdiction. This was accomplished in 1930 and the city is operated under special legislation which is called the « Lloydminster Charter ». Inherent inefficiencies still remain for civic government as well as disadvantages for private enterprises as the provincial legislation of Alberta or Saskatchewan prevails depending upon which side of the boundary a person resides, works, shops, or an economic enterprise is located. The sales tax levied on most purchases by the Saskatchewan Government remains a problem for retailers and citizens. Most of the commercial and industrial development is occurring on the Alberta side of the City. There is evidence that industrial and commercial companies, professional people and residents, would prefer the City to be either in Alberta or Saskatchewan in order to eradicate the inefficiencies and irritations caused by the division of the city by the boundary.
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Hilton, Donald F. J. "DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA) OF CYPRESS HILLS PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA AND THEIR BIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE." Canadian Entomologist 117, no. 9 (September 1985): 1127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1171127-9.
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AbstractThe Cypress Hills consist of a hilly elongate plateau straddling the Alberta–Saskatchewan border. They are mostly covered in a foothills-type vegetation but are surrounded by short-grass prairie and lie about 250 km east of the Rocky Mountain foothills. The upper 95 m remained unglaciated as a nunatak during the Wisconsinan glaciation. Dragonflies were collected at various times during May–August in 1982–1984 at 24 localities in Cypress Hills Provincial Park, Alberta. Thirty-one species were obtained, 3 of which (Aeshna multicolor, Gomphus graslinellus, and Libellula pulchella) are new records for Alberta. The dragonfly fauna of the Cypress Hills consists of species with the following Canadian distributions: 22 transcontinental (13 boreal, 7 southern, and 2 widespread), 4 southwestern, 2 western boreal–northwestern, 2 cordilleran, and 1 primarily prairie. An analysis of this fauna indicates that, following northward retreat of the glaciers, 22% of the present species came from cordilleran regions and 42% were derived from the boreal fauna. This corroborates the boreo–montane forest connection that is considered to have extended along the retreating ice front before the climate became too warm and resulted in the forest being replaced by grassland.
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Oldham, Michael J., Joyce Gould, and Jane M. Bowles. "Fetid Dogweed (Dyssodia papposa; Asteraceae) and Slender Russian Thistle (Salsola collina; Amaranthaceae), New to Alberta, Canada." Canadian Field-Naturalist 125, no. 4 (August 14, 2012): 366. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i4.1267.
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Two non-native vascular plants, Fetid Dogweed (Dyssodia papposa; Asteraceae) and Slender Russian Thistle (Salsola collina; Amaranthaceae), are added to the flora of Alberta, Canada, based on collections and sight records made in 2011. Fetid Dogweed was found along roadsides at eight sites in southern Alberta, and Slender Russian Thistle was found along a hiking trail in Dinosaur Provincial Park near Drumheller. Both species are weedy and are probably expanding their range in North America.
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Haag, Andrew M., Jeremy Cheng, and Robi Wirove. "Describing the not criminally responsible population in Alberta’s history: Sociodemographic, mental health, and criminological profiles." Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being 1, no. 3 (November 18, 2016): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.35502/jcswb.24.
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This is the first paper to look at the entire population of those found Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder (NCR) in Alberta, Canada. The Alberta NCR Project examined longitudinal data from the NCR population to describe sociodemographic, mental health, and criminological profiles. Data were collected for the period of 1941 (i.e., the first known case in Alberta) to October 15, 2015, using archived patient chart information. The majority of Alberta NCRs have not completed high school, are diagnosed with some form of psychosis, and were found by the court to be NCR due to a violent crime. The Alberta NCR population has grown by an average of seven NCR accused per year and, of those who have reached absolute discharge, each person spent an average of 5.7 years under the Alberta Review Board (the provincial body that oversees those found NCR). Those who committed a homicide had significantly longer hospitalizations than those under every other crime category, except attempted homicide.
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Charette, Natalie, Evelyn Delgado, and Jaclyn Kozak. "Stop, collaborate and listen: Reimagining & Rebuilding the Royal Alberta Museum." Museum and Society 16, no. 3 (November 21, 2018): 383–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v16i3.2796.
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The field of museum education is continually examining and reconsidering how best to engage child audiences, offering child-centered experiences to complement knowledge-rich environments. The implementation of Reggio Emilia approach-based programs and activities, which embrace children’s multiple literacies and provide opportunities for free, unstructured play, are best served when complemented by documentation in order to render learning visible to all audiences. It is through documentation that we can actively demonstrate our respect and value for children’s learning and play. Play has to be honoured and celebrated in its own right, and the act of documentation needs to be incorporated into daily operations so it becomes a natural part of the museum experience, and a natural part of evaluation practices. The Royal Alberta Museum has recently undergone a large-scale renewal project; staff sought inspiration from these Reggio Emilia-based philosophies in designing a space that will welcome play and value it as learning, reframing the museum educator’s role as one that documents, collects and curates children’s learning experiences on the gallery floor. In this way, our museum will continue to shape the visitor experience in a ways that place children’s contributions at the forefront – in the way that Elee Kirk imagined.
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Shen, Ye, Jennifer Ellison, Uma Chandran, Sumana Fathima, Jamil Kanji, Bonita Lee, Stephanie Smith, et al. "A 6-Year Review of Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms in Alberta, Canada." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 41, S1 (October 2020): s104—s105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.608.
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Background: This review describes the epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPO) in both the community and hospitalized populations in the province of Alberta. Methods: Newly identified CPO-positive individuals from April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2018, were retrospectively reviewed from 3 data sources, which shared a common provincial CPO case definition: (1) positive CPO results from the Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, which provides all referral and confirmatory CPO testing, (2) CPO cases reported to Alberta Health, and (3) CPO surveillance from Alberta Health Services Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). The 3 data sources were collated, and initial CPO cases were classified according to their likely location of acquisition: hospital-acquired, hospital-identified, on admission, and community-identified. Risk factors and adverse outcomes were obtained from linkage to administrative data. Results: In total, 171 unique individuals were newly identified with a first-time CPO case. Also, 15% (25 of 171) were hospital-acquired (HA), 21% (36 of 171) were hospital-identified (HI), 33% (57 of 171) were on admission, and 31% (53 of 171) were community identified. Overall, 9% (5 of 171) resided in long-term care facilities. Of all patients in acute-care facilities, 30% (35 of 118) had infections and 70% were colonized. Overall, 38% (65 of 171) had an acute-care admission in the 1 year prior to CPO identification; 59% (63 of 106) of those who did not have a previous admission had received healthcare outside Alberta. A large proportion of on-admission cases (81%, 46 of 57) and community-identified (66%, 33 of 53) cases did not have any acute-care admissions in Alberta in the previous year. Overall, 10% (14 of 171) had ICU admissions in Alberta within 30 days of CPO identification, and 5% (8 of 171) died within 30 days. The most common carbapenemase gene identified was NDM-1 (53%, 90 of 171). Conclusions: These findings highlight the robust nature of Alberta’s provincial CPO surveillance network. We reviewed 3 different databases (laboratory, health ministry, IPC) to obtain comprehensive data to better understand the epidemiology of CPO in both the community and hospital settings. More than half of the individuals with CPO were initially identified in the community or on admission. Most had received healthcare outside Alberta, and no acute-care admissions occurred in Alberta in the previous year. It is important to be aware of the growing reservoir of CPO outside the hospital setting because it could impact future screening and management practices.Funding: NoneDisclosures: None
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Hollingworth, Alan S., and David M. Wood. "Recent Regulatory and Legislative Developments of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers." Alberta Law Review 37, no. 2 (July 1, 1999): 484. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr530.
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This article reviews numerous recent decisions of the National Energy Board, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, the British Columbia Utilities Commission and the Manitoba Public Utilities Board pertaining to oil and gas issues. In addition, changes in the national and provincial statutory frameworks governing the oil and gas industry are explored. While the emphasis throughout the article is placed on developments federally and in Alberta, significant decisions and legislative changes in other jurisdictions within Canada are also highlighted.
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Currie, Philip J., and David A. Eberth. "On gregarious behavior in AlbertosaurusThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Albertosaurus." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47, no. 9 (September 2010): 1277–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e10-072.
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One century ago, a field party from the American Museum of Natural History discovered a bonebed in the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. Excavations by that museum, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, and the University of Alberta have revealed the presence of at least a dozen individuals — represented by articulated partial skeletons, associated skeletons, and disarticulated isolated elements — of Albertosaurus sarcophagus . Tyrannosaurids dominate the bonebed assemblage, which also includes an adult Hypacrosaurus altispinus , two individuals of Albertonykus borealis , and numerous other, predominantly terrestrial, vertebrates. Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic inference, monodominant bonebeds, trackway sites, and ecological inferences support the notion that some non-avian theropods were gregarious animals. And specifically in the Albertosaurus bonebed, associated geologic and taphonomic evidence do not rule out a behavioural component in this catastrophic, mass-death assemblage.