LIVE BLOG: Bill 6 protests move to Red Deer
The Alberta government’s proposed changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Bill 6, continues to rile farmers. You can find all The Western Producer’s coverage of this controversial proposed...
View ArticleFarm groups speak out on Alberta’s Bill 6, Alberta’s proposed farm labour...
Many agricultural and rural groups in Alberta have issued public responses to Bill 6, the Alberta government’s Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act. Here is a summary of their views....
View ArticleAlberta Beef Producers has misgivings about Bill 6
Delegates to Alberta Beef Producers are uneasy about the implications of the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act. The provincial government amended Bill 6 Dec. 7, promising to exclude...
View ArticleGovernment must stop Bill 6 until consultation complete
Alberta’s NDP government has bungled Bill 6. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act has galvanized agriculture into unprecedented opposition, and with good reason. Almost every Alberta...
View ArticleAlberta NDP gov’t passes Bill 6
Alberta’s controversial farm safety legislation debate ended as the government majority passed Bill 6. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act passed third reading today 44-29. A...
View ArticleBill 6 passes: anger ‘all out of proportion’
Farmers drove their trucks down highways, parked their tractors outside meeting halls, carried signs on pitchforks, created Facebook pages and presented more than 22,000 signatures in the legislature,...
View ArticleAlberta launches survey; seeks input on Bill 6
RED DEER, Alta. — An online survey by Alberta crop commissions hopes to gather farmer input about new farm safety legislation. Within hours of the survey being released Jan. 15, more than 300 people...
View ArticleStudents give Alberta ag minister earful on Bill 6
RED DEER — Agriculture groups can wait for weeks or months for an appointment with a government minister. Nine Olds College students had Alberta agriculture minister Oneil Carlier’s ear for an hour...
View ArticleAgCoalition formed in Alta. to work on farm worker bill
A coalition of 30 Alberta commodity groups has developed a strategy to deal with upcoming consultations on the controversial Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act. The AgCoalition, which...
View ArticleAg minister clarifies farm workers act
The Alberta government believes all workers should be safe, including those who work on farms and ranches, and I know Albertans feel the same. That’s why government created the Enhanced Protection for...
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