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Under Senate Bill 6, any executive officer of a pharmaceutical company that “knowingly hides, conceals, omits, or otherwise withholds evidence, documentation, or information that the vaccine has dangerous effects,” would be found guilty of a felony and face a prison sentence.
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Alberta’s new Agriculture Minister has launched consultations in advance of the UCP’s promise to kill the Notley government’s farm and ranch
Alberta’s new agriculture minister has launched consultations in advance of the UCP’s promise to kill the former Notley government’s farm and ranch safety legislation, commonly known as Bill 6.
Devin Dreeshen will spend the summer travelling the province and speaking to farmers, with the goal of introducing “repeal and replace” legislation during the fall sitting of the legislature. While Dreeshen said details of the new legislation will depend on the outcome of the consultations, he believes many farmers want to “step back” from the perceived excessive regulations and prescriptive nature of the current rules.
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Saturday is the last day for farmers to provide feedback on the UCP government's plan to replace the former NDP government's farm and ranch
Saturday is the last day for farmers to provide feedback on the UCP government's plan to replace the former NDP government's farm and ranch safety legislation, which was commonly known as Bill 6.
Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen has been talking to farmers across the province this summer and receiving comments online about what they'd like to see in the new rules the UCP promised during the election campaign this spring.
Since the NDP introduced its farm safety legislation in 2016, Alberta farmers have been subject to occupational health and safety regulations and mandatory coverage by the Workers Compensation Board.
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What an awful person you must be to say rachel needs a pitch fork in the neck and other similar death threats! Between that and anti-muslim graffiti, it's been real embarrassing being associated with alberta lately. For shame, Alberta. For shame! Alberta really needs to get with the times and catch up with the rest of Canada.
Hmm, how embarrassing to be of the same province that all these ignorant hicks are who wish death upon our premier for passing legislation that’s already commonplace in the other provinces! Albertan’s are truly the epitome of uneducated and redneck.
Musing About Artists and OHS
Bill 6 is on the table in Alberta, as many already know, and the debate about health and safety on the farm is getting heated. The provincial NDP is essentially trying to enact safety and worker regulations for farm employees in Alberta and farmer's are furious about this. People are spilling from farm to farm with protest signs saying that their current state of deregulation works just fine for them and that this bill could kill their farms if passed. While others are saying that there is nothing wrong with ensuring farm employees are protected and that the rest of the country offers these protections already. It would be a little strange if this farming and legislative issue is what I'd like to be talking about on behalf of Visual Arts Alberta - CARFAC. These current debates and protests got me to start thinking about how self-employed artists fall into the structure of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). More specifically, it got me thinking about if our own safety be monitored by anybody, but ourselves? It may not be very surprising to anyone that artists often find themselves working dangerously. Chemicals, heat, heavy machinery, power tools: these are all aspects of many artist's studios. But, given that self-employed artists utilize a potentially endless set of materials in a very broad range of environments with varying amounts of time commitment, it seems it would be difficult to regulate safety standards for solo self-employed artists. This makes the artists themselves often responsible for their own safety. As farmers are arguing in response to Bill 6, it is definitely not a bad thing to make workers responsible for their own safety to some extent. Learning the dangers and precautions to be taken in a workplace first hand promotes understanding, rather than just simple compliance. One of the issues though with having no regulation for solo self-employed artists is not what workplace hazards they decide to ignore (although that is still a major problem), but what workplace hazards they aren't even aware of. You can learn as much as possible about safety equipment and WHIMIS and proper procedure, but there are still other people who are specifically trained to know these things inside-and-out so they can evaluate the safety of a workplace. They are OHS officers. Even though they can act as regulation enforcers, often the function of a visit from OHS is to inform the employer of what the health hazards actually are in their workplace. And this doesn't seem so bad for artists, considering they are often introducing themselves to new materials and work that require their own new safety procedures. The Calgary Workers Resource Board (CWRB) published a report titled, "Regulatory Weaknesses in Alberta's Employment Legislation and their Impact on the Economic Well-Being of Vulnerable Workers," in 2012 and it makes mention of how OHS regulations apply to solo self-employed workers. Even though education can be a goal of OHS, they are supposed to also help make sure that solo self-employed workers don't find themselves in situations where they have to ignore their own health and safety in the name of their job. "… problems that affect solo self-employed contractors include lack of protection when confronted with imminent danger. Under Alberta’s OHS Act, workers have the right to refuse to work if they believe that they or other workers face an imminent danger--a danger that is not normal to their occupation or for which they do not have the necessary training or proper equipment to safely handle--without being subject to disciplinary action; the employer or prime contractor is required to find a safe way to eliminate the danger. In a similar situation, a solo self-employed worker’s options may be much more limited. If they refuse to complete the job due to the presence of imminent danger, they may find themselves in breach of contract for not having completed their job, and therefore denied payment (Bernier, Vallee, and Jobin, 2003). They may not have the funds, resources, or expertise required to safely eliminate the hazard themselves. Alternately, they can risk injury or death to get the job done. Miscalculation of risk can have disastrous consequences, and this is more likely to occur when the contractor feels that they cannot turn their back on the job due to financial need." This may sound like a familiar situation to some artists out there. It's also a kind of catch twenty-two where a solution is very difficult to navigate. The CWRB thought of a few ideas in the same report though. They recommend the following for regulatory steps to protect self-employed workers: "Prohibit the assignment of dangerous work or work requiring medical surveillance to temporary or fixed- term workers (including solo self-employed contractors). Revise the OHS Act to better protect solo self-employed workers, and develop resources and incentive programs to help ensure that solo self-employed workers are better positioned to work safely and do not underbid competitors by cutting corners around health and safety. " I'm not sure what readers might think of this, but I do like the idea of incentive programs. If a solo self-employed artist can call OHS to their studio space and prove their workspace is safe, they could receive some kind of tax credit. I do wonder if there is anything else beyond this that could be done though. What does our readership think? How could we encourage studio safety in a responsible way? Is it the place for public regulation? Please let us know. We will even put your responses in our newsletter, because we love you all so much. References: "Alberta's Bill 6: Answers to common questions on controversial farm-safety legislation" http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/bill-6-questions-answered-alberta-farm-safety-1.3345283 "Regulatory Weaknesses in Alberta's Employment Legislation and their Impact on the Economic Well-Being Of Vulnerable Workers" http://www.calgaryworkers.org/wp-dev/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/FINAL-FULLREPORT_FormattedDec17.pdf
the alberta legislative assembly is a place for democratic debate!!! not angry mobs!!! not a circus with painted ponies and turkeys!!!! who will clean the shit of these animals off of the streets?!?! why bring a cow to a protest? have you asked these animals their opinions?? why bring your child to a protest in edmonton in the winter? did you ask your children about their opinions??? do you think your child has an educated opinion about the legislative process?? are you paying your children to stand in the snow with a sign around their necks?? you should be!! did they really want to drive four hours so they could stand around listening to old people yell for four hours and then drive four hours back home?? why drive your tractor to a protest? don’t try to act like you don’t have a normal car! what the fuck is happening?!?! a protest should have a clear cohesive message, instead, all you bring are piles of bullshit!!!! i hate living here!!!
THE WILDROSE IS LITERALLY A FASCIST PARTY. FUCK BRIAN JEAN.
Opposition to the farm safety bill has thrown a wrench into government plans to get through business in a timely manner.
The NDP has given notice it may limit debate on the controversial farm safety bill after the opposition threw a wrench into government plans to get through legislative business in a timely manner.
NDP house leader Brian Mason said Tuesday he will allow debate to continue and won’t move three separate motions to limit each step of the debate to one hour until he feels “forward progress is being thwarted” by “deliberate attempts to frustrate the will of the majority and to frustrate the progress of the assembly.”
“It’s quite clear that the opposition is trying to filibuster the motion,” Mason said. “They’re trying to block the business of the house and we can’t allow the paralysis of the assembly. There’s important business that needs to be attended to by the house, not just Bill 6, but other legislation as well.”
Mason said he doesn’t know when he will invoke closure on second reading, then committee of the whole, and finally, third reading, after which the bill can be passed.
“I want to make sure that it’s perfectly clear that the opposition has had every opportunity to speak to the bill and to debate its amendments,” Mason said. “We’re not ramming it through and declaring victory.”
But he said paid non-family farm workers need protection through the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act.
“They can keep this bill going to the middle of January if they wanted to and that’s not what the government is prepared to accept,” Mason said.
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