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The Mandate for Nature in Alberta

Alberta’s cabinet ministers received their mandate letters – how does that bode for nature conservation? The Corvus Centre has just released a new report: “The Mandate for Nature: A Review of the Government of Alberta 2023 Ministerial Mandate Letters and the Implications for Nature Conservation.” As I note in the intro to this report, mandate letters are like Christmas gift-giving back in the day: the party platform is the Sears Christmas Catalogue (“ooh, I hope Santa brings

Alberta's ‘Parks’ are now in a different ministry than ‘Protected Areas’ – is that good or bad?

An op-ed for the Edmonton Journal (November 2022) The latest provincial cabinet shuffle in Alberta – as usual – led to some slicing and dicing of the ministries. Of note, staff in two ministries – Environment and Parks and Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development – found themselves re-sprinkled across the new ministries of Environment and Protected Areas, and Forestry, Parks, and Tourism. A big question that arose was why are ‘Protected Areas’ now separate from ‘