* Appeals of summary conviction offences go first to the highest trial court within the jurisdiction ( e. g. provincial superior court in Alberta is the Court of Queen ’ s Bench ).

He served as chief justice of the Northwest Territories until September 16, 1907, when the Supreme Court of Alberta was established, whereupon he headed this new court, sitting in Calgary as the first Chief Justice of Alberta.

* Delwin Vriend, an Alberta teacher, wins a court case against the Alberta Human Rights Commission regarding the status of LGBT persons under the province's human rights legislation.

* The Alberta Court of Appeal strikes down a lower court ruling that homosexual persons are to be covered under the province's human rights legislation.

The position of Premier Ralph Klein and the Conservative government had been to attempt to block same-sex marriages in Alberta should a court case require it or federal legislation pass it nationwide.

The Alberta government also considered continuing to issue marriage licences to opposite-sex couples only in court, on the grounds that the federal government's legislation encroached on the provincial government's jurisdiction over the solemnization of marriage.

It had been one of only four provinces and territories, with Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, where same-sex marriage had not already been legalized by court challenges prior to the passage of Bill C-38.

In 1994, an Alberta court ruled that sexual orientation must be treated as a protected class under human rights legislation.

At the time the bill became law, same-sex marriage had already been legalized by court decisions in all Canadian provinces except Alberta and Prince Edward Island, as well as in the Nunavut Territory and the Northwest Territories.

* In Nova Scotia, only long-form amalgamations requiring approval of ¾ of shareholders AND approval of Supreme Court are available, whereas in Alberta no court approval is necessary ( both short-form :-parent and subsidiary amalgamation with only board approval required, and long-form :-2 / 3 shareholder approval are available )

* Reductions in Stated Capital: in Nova Scotia ¾ of shareholders and Supreme Court approval required, whereas in Alberta 2 / 3 shareholder approval is needed and no court approval necessary

After demobilization, he worked as a court reporter in Ontario and served as national secretary of the Social Credit Party of Canada, the less successful federal counterpart of Aberhardt's Alberta Social Credit party.

In the resulting court case, Black v. Law Society of Alberta, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the rules.

" Emily Murphy was outraged and appealed to Charles Wilson Cross, the Attorney General of Alberta, arguing " If the evidence is not fit to be heard in mixed company, then ... the government .. set up a special court presided over by women, to try other women.

The following day, the band released a brief statement announcing that that night's show in Lethbridge, Alberta was cancelled due to Scott Weiland being ordered to go on " 48 hours complete vocal rest due to strained vocal cords.

The redesign was ordered by a group of British Columbia and Alberta ski resorts that included Silver Star and Lake Louise.

On August 18, 1944 Major David Vivian Currie, commanding the Sherman tanks of C Squadron of the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment ( The South Alberta Regiment ), with attached infantry from " B " and " C " companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment ( all of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division ), was ordered to move from Trun to capture and hold the village, and to attempt to link up with the American forces understood to be advancing towards the village from Chambois.

On July 9, 2012, the Alberta Electric System Operator ordered power companies in the province of Alberta to institute rolling blackouts during a heat wave as six generating plants failed during peak demand in the heat of the afternoon.

The case was later appealed by the Court of Appeal of Alberta, and a new trial was ordered.

While Chinese dishes made from beef and ginger are nothing new, the western Canadian version of it is claimed to have been invented in Calgary, Alberta in 1974 at the Silver Inn, and it can still be ordered at most of the Chinese restaurants in that region.

The Alberta Appeal Court ( AAC ) ordered a second hearing by the council, again sitting as the Development Appeal Board.

Tobin is also a Senior Business Advisor with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto and is a member of the firm's Public Policy Group. Through his involvement in policy decisions first entered as ideals at the Fraser Institute, Tobin has influenced the sale of energy interests in Alberta including the sale of two billion dollars worth of Alberta oil and gas interests to Abu Dhaby a Middle Eastern company through their Houston affiliate as shown on the Fraser Milner Casgrain website.

* University of Alberta website

( source: the Government of Alberta website ) Alberta is the only province in Canada without a provincial sales tax ( see also Sales taxes in Canada ).

Founded by Ace Cetinski, a Chartered Accountant from Sherwood Park, Alberta, the party's website indicated its intent to advertise for candidates for federal by-elections to be held in September 2000, but there is no evidence that candidates were found.

Cetinski has posted an article entitled, " Western Independence Now ", on the Alberta Republicans website.

In the summer of 2008, the University of Alberta and the poker coaching website Stoxpoker ran a second tournament during the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

* Alberta Greens website

This album is in stores now and available through Walmart, HMV, CD Plus, Lammles Locations throughout Alberta, iTunes and at Jason's website at www. jasongreeley. com via MUSICMAX

* Biography for Dr. David Swann on the website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

* David Swann on Alberta Liberal Party website

* Biography for Mr. Harry Chase on the website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

* Harry Chase on Alberta Liberal Party website

* Alberta Ferretti website

* University of Alberta Press website

" Axia's Alberta SuperNet business has consistently generated annual revenues between $ 51 million and $ 55 million ," the company's 2011 " Progress Report ," available on its website, states without indicating whether this revenue comes from the Alberta government or other customers.

* Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta website

In the same year, his first novel, Raising of Voices ( 1993 ), won the Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet Award for best novel.

Some sources have confused the Aboriginal Voices network with the Aboriginal Multimedia Society of Alberta, which operates a distinct community radio network in rural northern Alberta that is not affiliated with Aboriginal Voices.

For example, in August 2003, the Métis Nation of Alberta adopted a formal " Definition of Métis " to determine who was eligible for membership of the Nation.

For example, many residents of the Atlantic provinces work in the oil and gas industry in the western province of Alberta.

For most of the year these workers may be contributing significant tax revenue to Alberta ( e. g. through fuel, tobacco and alcohol taxes ) while their health insurance costs are borne by their home province in Atlantic Canada.

For 2004, the league expanded its Canadian operations into the province of Alberta and added the Calgary Vipers and Edmonton CrackerCats to the league.

For example, the province of Alberta uses the title " Emergency Medical Technician ", or ' EMT ' for the Primary Care Paramedic and ' Paramedic ' only for those qualified as Advanced Care Paramedics Advanced Life Support ( ALS ) providers-but almost all provinces are gradually moving to adopting the new titles, or have at least recognized the NOCP document as a benchmarking document to permit inter-provincial labour mobility of practitioners, regardless of how titles are specifically regulated within their own provincial systems.

For example, the urban service areas of Fort McMurray and Sherwood Park, of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Strathcona County respectively, would be the fifth and sixth largest cities in Alberta if they were incorporated.

For example, in 1961 there were 1642 " country elevators " ( the smallest type ) in Alberta, holding of grain.

For ten years he acted as the managing editor of Dandelion, the oldest surviving literary magazine in Alberta.

For housing prices and bankruptcy rates, the experience of Alberta in particular is contrasted to the other regions of the country in an attempt to see whether the problems experienced due to the early 1980s recession were worse in Alberta perhaps due to the NEP. Long-term oil prices, 1861-2007 ( top line adjusted for inflation ).

For example, in mixed-wood forests in Alberta western tanager was significantly ( p = 0. 1 ) positively associated with conifer density ( number / ha ).

: For the first mayor of Calgary, Alberta, see George Murdoch.

For many years, commercial airlines could not serve alcohol while flying over Alberta.

For example, he let it be known that his province would never accept francophone Catholic Real Caouette, leader of the party's Quebec wing, as the party's leader — even though Caouette headed the party's third-strongest faction ( behind the Alberta and British Columbia Socreds ).

For Alberta and Saskatchewan, the relevant provision is s. 93 ( 1 ), as amended by the Alberta Act and the Saskatchewan Act, respectively.

For example, in Alberta, about 40 % of the land area of the province is included in separate school jurisdictions and there are two Protestant Separate School Districts, in the City of St. Albert ( St. Albert Protestant Separate School District ) and in the Town of St. Paul ( Glen Avon Protestant Separate School District ).

For most of its history the Alberta Party was a right-wing organization, until the rise of the Wildrose Alliance as Alberta's main right-wing alternative to the governing Progressive Conservatives attracted away the Alberta Party's more conservative members.

For example the District of Columbia has been governed by Democrats since its creation, Bavaria by the Christian Social Union since 1957, Alberta by Progressive Conservatives since 1971.

For example, the Conservatives were unable to win any seats in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in the last election, while the Liberals have only won four seats in Edmonton since 1968 and have only elected three MPs from Calgary since Alberta joined Confederation in 1905.

: For Project A the atomic weapons project see Project Alberta

: For the fort in Alberta, Canada, see Fort Assiniboine.

For example, the four electoral districts in Prince Edward Island have an average size of just 33, 963 voters each, while electoral districts in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia have an average size of over 125, 000 voters each — only slightly smaller, in fact, than the entire population of Prince Edward Island — and the four Atlantic Provinces combined have a total of 32 seats, more than Alberta even though this province has a significantly larger population than the total population of the Atlantic provinces.