Alberta History 2003-2006

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Jasper Alberta's Historic View

2003

March 7: Monica Hughes, nee Irse born November 3, 1925 Liverpool died March 7, 2003 Edmonton, Alberta. She published over 30 novels since 1971 and has won nearly every major Canadian award for young-adult fiction. Twelve of her works are classified as science fiction.

September 24:

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

The Edmonton City police of Alberta are using 'Citizen Profiling' to target potential law breakers by:

Using computers to maintain a list of high-risk drivers who will be treated differently than those not on the list. The list includes bad drivers as well as other criminals, as bad guys. We may trail those on the list to see if they're breaking any driving rules. To justify their position they say: We do this type of 'Citizen Profiling' all the time. Recent claims in Calgary suggest some Political, Judicial Judges and Police maybe included in the list. This brings to mind a case were Edmonton police used criminal charges against another police officer to inhibit his promotion to improve their own promotion possibility.

November 15: The Alberta Government is in the process of assembling its Firewall panel to consider the Firewall Proposals:

A Provincial Police Force

A Provincial Pension Plan

Income Tax collection

Control of Immigration

Issues Include:

• Kyoto


• Gun Registry


• Gay Marriages


• Canadian Wheat Board


• Senate Reform


• Federal Health Funding


The Alberta Resident Association is presently conducting town meetings to discuss these issues.

2004

September 29: Imperial Oil Limited announced today they will be relocating their corporate head office and Products & Chemicals management from Toronto to Calgary, Alberta.

The Oil Sands deposits of Northern Alberta are the largest deposits of recoverable fossil energy in the world, some 300 billion barrels. The question is the cost of recovery. This compares with Saudi Arabia oil reserves of some 260 billion barrels. Others suggest the total middle East oil reserves are overstated and only represent 360 billion barrels.

2005

April 27: The Edmonton Police conducted an illegal clandestine sting operation against Edmonton Sun columnist Kerry Diotte and the head of the Police Commission. It was determined today these rogue officers used the Police Computer system illegal against innocent citizens. None of these rogue officers have seen jail time.

October 24: A class action has begun against the Alberta's Child Welfare Department saying Social Workers were aware that their clients were being physically and sexually abused and failed to remove them from those abusive environments. This brings back memories of the Residential School scandals.

2006

Alberta Oil Sands currently produces 1.1 million barrels of crude oil a day and is expected to more than double to 2.5 million barrels a day, by 2015. Alberta has estimated reserves of 175 billion barrels of recoverable bitumen. About $130 billion dollars are planned or underway to expand recovery. Alberta is one of the few private free enterprises ventures, others are state owned such as Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Norway and Russia, to name a few.

January 1: The population of Alberta is estimated as 3.3 million people. The equivalent of six buses of people arrive Alberta everyday. Alberta's growth was five times the national average and the highest ever recorded in a fourth quarter. Two thirds arrived from other Provinces of Canada:

British Columbia -- 6,553
Saskatchewan -- 3,593
Manitoba -- 1,999
Yukon -- 101
N.W.T. -- 460
Nunvuit -- 56
Ontario -- 6,625
Quebec -- 1,420
New Brunswick -- 781
Nova Scotia -- 1,505
P.E.I. -- 200
Newfoundland -- 1,704


Total -- 24,997

Jasper Alberta's History