April 18, 2018
This Week
Register for AUMA’s summer Municipal Leaders’ Caucus

Registration is now open for AUMA's summer Municipal Leaders’ Caucus being held from June 12 to 14, at the Camrose Resort Casino in Camrose. If you require a hotel room, please contact the Camrose Casino Resort at 780-679-2376 and quote the AUMA Municipal Leaders’ Caucus. 
New guide and template for resolutions

AUMA has launched a new Resolutions Guide and Template to assist municipalities with drafting resolutions for consideration at AUMA’s 2018 Annual Convention in Red Deer this September.
Province introduces amendments to PACE legislation

AUMA welcomes Bill 10: An Act to Enable Clean Energy Improvement, which, when passed, will allow municipalities establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program.
Happening Now
Members encouraged to lend voice to advocacy on caribou range planning

AUMA supports the recent request by Alberta Environment and Parks asking the federal government for more time and greater support to understand the socioeconomic impacts of caribou range planning.
New ICF/IDP workshop dates announced

Alberta Municipal Affairs has announced three more dates for the Intermunicipal Collaboration Frameworks (ICFs) and Intermunicipal Development Plans (IDPs) workshops being held around Alberta: June 1 – Hanna/Special Areas, June 20 – Leduc, and June 21 – Hardisty/Flagstaff County
Last chance: April 20 deadline to provide your input on WIC

AUMA would like to hear about issues related to inclusive communities by completing a survey about your current challenges in creating an inclusive community and how AUMA’s WIC initiative can better support your municipality. The survey will close on April 20, 2018.
In Your Community
Nominate a Municipal Leader for a 2018 AUMA Award by June 29

It’s time to nominate municipal leaders in your community for a 2018 AUMA Award. Eligible nominees must be from a current or past regular member municipality. For more information on each award, and to download the nomination forms, visit the AUMA awards webpage.

The deadline for submitting nominations is June 29, 2018. 
A new resource to help municipalities integrate environmental assessment into their decision-making and planning processes

Two new publications by the Environmental Law Centre, developed as part of the Community Conserve Initiative, are aimed at helping municipalities integrate EA into their decision-making and planning processes.  
FCM releases municipal guide to cannabis legalization

Following months of collaboration with a technical advisory group and legal experts, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), in partnership with AUMA and provincial and territorial counterparts from across Canada, have launched the Municipal Guide to Cannabis Legalization. 
Events
April 26 webinar: What is Islamophobia and how to counter it?
AUMA’s Welcoming and Inclusive Communities initiative is pleased to host a webinar on April 26, from noon to 1:15 p.m., that will explore this complex topic of Islamophobia and how municipal leaders can empower themselves with facts and strategies to counter local attitudes or actions that unfairly target Muslims. 

View other events, webinars, workshops and more at auma.ca/events
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News Clippings
Economy, Economic Development and Tourism
  • Youngstown looks to attract snowbirds
  • Museum receives national recognition
  • Backcountry huts coming to Castle wilderness area

Energy
  • Canada will take financial and legislative action to make pipeline happen: Trudeau
  • Canada's coal workers are anxious to find work in Trudeau's low-carbon future
  • Plan would allow homeowners to pay for energy efficient upgrades on property tax bill
  • Oilsands research could be 'game changer' for renewable energy
  • Clean energy upgrade program inspired by former city councillor

Environment
  • Moose wouldn't vamoose, so Athabasca wildlife officers had to haul her out of town
  • Alberta-funded business offers remedy for climate tax denial

Infrastructure and Transportation
  • Governments invest in electric buses for Edmonton commuters
  • Highway 3 and Highway 864 intersection continues to be M.D./Town of Taber concern
  • Town council discusses infrastructure priorities for ICIP application

Indigenous Relations
  • Alberta government developing suicide prevention comic books for Indigenous youth
  • Government of Canada Invests in Indigenous Economic Development across Alberta

Intergovernmental Relations
  • NDP introduces new rules to make more Alberta lobbyists register
  • Controversial nominee named for Alberta's first election commissioner, tasked with rooting out 'dark money’

Municipal Governance
  • City Councillor wants to start Uber conversation in Grande Prairie
  • Youth Council launching in Red Deer
  • County insurer covering councillor’s legal bills
  • Councillors will try to streamline speed limits on Edmonton roads

Safe and Healthy Communities
  • Serious flooding causes state of local emergency in Alberta
  • Sorenson backs motion to tackle rural crime
  • Penhold supports campaign to review policing needs
  • Health Minister Sarah Hoffman discusses Community Paramedic Program
  • Council looks at emergency response in the RMWB
  • Edmonton conducts 2018 homeless count
  • RCMP provide update to Stony Plain Town council
  • As Alberta's private security industry surges, what happens when guards behave badly?
  • High River Resident Experiencing Mould Problems In Town's Affordable Housing
  • Region’s ability to attract physicians recognized by RhPAP
  • Southern Alberta areas under state of emergency
  • Edmonton's downtown communities have 'walkability' millennials crave, analysis suggests

Occupational Health and Safety
  • Town hiring full-time health and safety coordinator

Marijuana/Cannabis
  • Calgary capitalizes on cannabis in wake of oil and gas slump
  • Albertans continue to wrangle with unanswered questions ahead of cannabis legalization
  • Town finally lays out plan for legalized cannabis
  • Lethbridge city council postpones cannabis community meeting
  • Aurora Cannabis to Build "Aurora Sun", 1.2 Million Square Foot Facility in Medicine Hat, Alberta
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