Alberta
Canadian Energy Centre launches with mandate to promote Canadian energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_AsaHmwKA
From the Canadian Energy Centre
The Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) starts operations today with a mandate to promote Canada as the supplier of choice for the world’s growing demand for responsibly produced energy.
In the coming weeks, the website canadianenergycentre.ca will share with the rest of the world the true story of Canada’s energy sector. It will push back against incorrect narratives and begin to respond to the lies and myths targeting Alberta in real time.
The CEC has three units that will work together to tell Canada’s energy story:
- A rapid response unit to issue swift responses to misinformation about Canadian oil and natural gas.
- A pro-active energy literacy unit that creates original content to elevate the general understanding of Canada’s energy sector and help the country take control of its energy story.
- A data and research unit that centralizes and analyses data targeting investors, researchers, and policy makers.
Tom Olsen, Chief Executive Officer, said the CEC will offer a fact-based narrative to reflect a truthful picture of the existing and future energy mix of fossil fuels, renewables, and other forms of energy.
“Demand for oil and gas will increase for decades to come. Canada, with its world-leading, environmental, social and governance standards, should be the first choice for consumers around the world. We will no longer apologize for our industry or be ashamed of our industry. Canadian energy makes the world a better place.”
“The Canadian Energy Centre is a key part of Alberta’s new, proactive strategy to tell the truth about our responsibly produced resources. Alberta has been a great motor of jobs, prosperity, and social progress because of our natural resources, and increasingly we are world leaders in technology that reduces the environmental output of our oil and gas,” said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. “We will no longer passively accept a campaign of defamation seeking to landlock one of Canada’s greatest assets.”
“Today is an important milestone in our efforts to set the record straight and tell the true story of Canadian energy,” said Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage. “The narratives about Canada’s energy sector are simply untrue and unacceptable. Our energy sector operates with the highest environmental, social and governance standards in the world.”
The Canadian Energy Centre will also feature a mix of stories to re-introduce Canada’s energy sector and lead advertising campaigns throughout key markets in Canada. As of today, a number of narrative stories have already been published to the CEC’s website including:
- “Canada’s natural resources can be global catalyst for a greener future”
- “Indigenous leaders bring energy message to Japan”
- “Fossil fuel misinformation presented to students in Alberta”
- “Prosthetics derived from petrochemicals allow athletes to stay in the game”
The CEC is an independent provincial corporation that has a $30-million annual budget — $20 million derived from industry through the Technology, Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund, $10 million re-purposed from advertising spending earmarked by the previous provincial government.
Follow the Canadian Energy Centre on Twitter and Facebook @CDNEnergyCentre
President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Nate Horner issued the following statement about the ongoing negotiations with TEBA and the ATA:
“I am pleased to share that TEBA and the ATA met in an Alberta Labour Relations Board (LRB) resolution conference today to discuss the unfair labour practice complaint launched against the ATA, by TEBA.
“As a result of the resolution conference, the LRB issued a consent order, which is an agreement by the parties to resolve the complaint.
“The consent order clarifies that there are only three outstanding bargaining issues. They are:
- The timing for implementation of the unified grid;
- The ATA’s proposal for an annual 1.5% long service allowance for teachers at the maximum step of the grid; and,
- Coverage of the COVID-19 vaccination.
“This consent order makes clear that none of the outstanding items under negotiation are about classroom complexity, class size or support for students.
“Alberta’s government has already addressed these concerns though our current offer which would add 3000 more teachers to classrooms. In addition, Budget 2025 invested$1.6 billion to support diverse learning needs and complexity in classrooms. This includes $53 million for classroom complexity grants.
“I trust that this order will assist Alberta’s families and teachers in understanding the true nature of the ongoing negotiations.”
Alberta
Sylvan Lake high school football coach fired for criticizing gender ideology sends legal letter to school board
From LifeSiteNews
The letter on behalf of Alberta high school volunteer football coach Taylor ‘Teej’ Johannesson mentions ‘workplace harassment’ while demanding his job back.
A Sylvan Lake high school football coach who was fired for sharing his views opposing transgender ideology on social media in a video discussing his Christian faith sent a legal demand to his former school board demanding he get his job back.
H.J. Cody High School volunteer coach Taylor “Teej” Johannesson, as reported by LifeSiteNews, earlier this month was fired by his school’s principal because he spoke out against gender-confused youth who “take their hatred of Christians” to another level by committing violent acts against them.
School principal Alex Lambert fired Teej, as he is known, as a result of a TikTok video in which he speaks out against radical gender ideology and the dangers it brings.
In a recent update involving his case, local media with knowledge of Johannesson’s issues with the principal at H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, confirmed a legal demand letter was sent to the school.
The letter reads, “From his perspective, this opposition is consistent with the Alberta government’s position and legislation prohibiting prescribing prescription hormones to minors and providing care to them that involves transition surgeries.”
In the letter, the school board’s “workplace harassment” procedure is mentioned, stating, “Any act of workplace harassment or workplace violence shall be considered unacceptable conduct whether that conduct occurs at work, on Division grounds, or at division-sponsored activities.”
The legal demand letter, which was sent to school officials last week, reads, “Given that Mr. Johannesson’s expression in the TikTok Video was not connected to his volunteer work, the principal and the division have no authority to regulate his speech and punish him by the Termination decision, which is ultra vires (“beyond the powers.)”
Johannesson has said, in speaking with local media, that his being back at work at the school as a volunteer coach has meaning: “It’s about trying to create some change within the school system.”
He noted how, for “too long,” a certain “political view, one ideology, has taken hold in the school system.”
“I’m hoping that this demand letter, and all the attention that they’ve gotten over this, causes them to make some change,” he stated.
Johannesson has contacted Alberta’s Chief of Staff for the Minister of Education about his firing and was told that there is a board meeting taking place over the demand letter.
According to Teej, Lambert used his TikTok video as an excuse to get rid of someone in the school with conservative political views and who is against her goal to place “safe space stickers” all over the school.
Teej has been in trouble before with the school administration. About three years ago, he was called in to see school officials for posting on Twitter a biological fact that “Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.”
Alberta’s Conservative government under Premier Danielle Smith has in place a new policy protecting female athletes from gender-confused men that has taken effect across the province.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the Government of Alberta is currently fighting a court order that is blocking the province’s newly passed ban on transgender surgeries and drugs for children.
Alberta also plans to ban books with sexually explicit as well as pornographic material, many of which contain LGBT and even pedophilic content, from all school libraries.
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