MORINVILLE, Alta. – A group lobbying for rural child-care programs has lost three top officials. National co-chair Margaret Jones, secretary-treasurer Marcia Rinn and executive director Jane Wilson have resigned from the National Rural Child Care Coalition in the span of three days. Citing personality conflicts, Jones said the group, formed in Saskatoon in 1994 by […] Read more
Stories by Will Gibson
Proposed $120 million industry tax cut riles Alberta municipalities
MORINVILLE, Alta. – A conversation in a New York skyscraper has become a concern for many Alberta rural municipalities. When Alberta premier Ralph Klein emerged from a meeting with Union Carbide executives on a New York business trip last year, he said the province’s M and E (machinery and equipment) tax was preventing the multinational […] Read more
