Agriculture And Forestry

• Devin Dreeshen resigns as Alberta minister of agriculture and forestry

  Alberta MLA Devin Dreeshen resigned as minister of agriculture and forestry on Friday, citing "personal conduct with regards to alcohol."

  Politics

  Nov 5, 2021
  
• Province and feds provide combined $340M for ranchers after drought-laden summer

  After an extremely dry summer, the government of Alberta is offering a support program that will allow ranchers to apply for $200 per head in funding.

  Environment

  Sep 7, 2021
  
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• Firefighters raising alarm over province’s wildfire response

  Alberta Union of Provincial Employees vice-president Mike Dempsey says Alberta's wildland firefighters are missing paycheques as the province works out issues with its pay system.

  Fire

  Jun 4, 2021
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• Alberta agriculture experts sounding alarm over research cuts

  Farming Smarter is wondering why there isn't passionate concern when it comes to cuts made to agriculture industry research, made by the UCP government in 2020.

  Politics

  Mar 1, 2021
• Alberta cutting 930 jobs in social services, agriculture, wildfire management: AUPE

  "These are public sector workers in a variety of fields... community disability workers as well as people who work in wildfire management as well as farm safety," the NDP said.

  Economy

  Oct 21, 2020
• Alberta gearing up for wildfire season

  Officially running from March 1 to Oct. 31, the province is putting firefighters, equipment and aircraft in place ahead of the season.

  Canada

  Feb 27, 2019
• E. coli outbreak linked to pork products in Alberta declared over

  AHS said Friday the E. coli outbreak connected to some pork products sold and distributed by The Meat Shop at Pine Haven that led to 42 lab-confirmed cases was officially over.

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2018