Alberta
Home invasion suspects allegedly shoot at victim who tried to follow them during getaway
From Parkland RCMP
Parkland RCMP make arrests for break and enter
On Aug. 26, 2019 at 12:00 a.m., Parkland RCMP responded to the report of a home invasion that occurred at a rural residence in the area north of Hwy 16 on Range Road 264.
The female home owner heard someone trying to break down the garage door. She contacted her husband who arrived in time to observe several individuals entering a car that was parked in his driveway. When confronted, the car fled the scene. The home owner was following the suspects in his vehicle when one of the car`s occupants proceeded to shoot at him. The home owner immediately stopped and called and updated police. No one was injured.
The RCMP located the car. The occupants of the car had fled the scene on foot. With the assistance of Edmonton Police Services Helicopter Air One and RCMP Police Dog Services (PDS), police were able to locate all five suspects in the bush near the car. The gun safe that was stolen from the residence and a shot gun were located in the car. The car and the license plate were determined to be stolen out of Edmonton. The five suspects were arrested without incident.
RCMP PDS returned in the daylight to the area where the subjects had been apprehended and located the stolen rifles and a quantity of drugs believed to be methamphetamine.
Elliot Steinhaeur (21) of Saddle Lake, Chantel Cardinal (24) and Dorian Hunter (18) of Edmonton, and James Auigbelle (25) and Aaron Auigbelle (34) of Morinville are facing 14 charges including:
- Pointing a firearm
- Carrying a concealed weapon
- Break and enter with intent – residence
- Assault with weapon
- Possession of property obtained for the purpose of trafficking over $5000
- Possession of methamphetamine
Elliot Steinhauer has additional charges of:
- Weapons possession contrary to order and fail to surrender authorization
- Fail to comply with probation order
Aaron Auigbelle has additional charges of:
- Weapons possession contrary to order and fail to surrender authorization (x2)
All five were held for justice interim hearings. Dorian Hunter and Chantel Cardinal were released with a recognizance. Their first appearance is on Aug. 28, 2019 at the Stony Plain Provincial Court. Elliot Steinhauer, Aaron Auigbelle and James Auigbelle were remanded into custody and will be appearing via CCTV on Aug. 28, 2019 at the Stony Plain Provincial Court.
The RCMP would like to remind everyone not to put their own safety at risk when providing assistance. Call 911 immediately and try to provide as many details as possible.
If you have any information in relation to this investigation, please contact Parkland RCMP at 780-968-7267. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app available through the Apple App or Google Play Store.
Alberta
Alberta government should eliminate corporate welfare to generate benefits for Albertans
From the Fraser Institute
By Spencer Gudewill and Tegan Hill
Last November, Premier Danielle Smith announced that her government will give up to $1.8 billion in subsidies to Dow Chemicals, which plans to expand a petrochemical project northeast of Edmonton. In other words, $1.8 billion in corporate welfare.
And this is just one example of corporate welfare paid for by Albertans.
According to a recent study published by the Fraser Institute, from 2007 to 2021, the latest year of available data, the Alberta government spent $31.0 billion (inflation-adjusted) on subsidies (a.k.a. corporate welfare) to select firms and businesses, purportedly to help Albertans. And this number excludes other forms of government handouts such as loan guarantees, direct investment and regulatory or tax privileges for particular firms and industries. So the total cost of corporate welfare in Alberta is likely much higher.
Why should Albertans care?
First off, there’s little evidence that corporate welfare generates widespread economic growth or jobs. In fact, evidence suggests the contrary—that subsidies result in a net loss to the economy by shifting resources to less productive sectors or locations (what economists call the “substitution effect”) and/or by keeping businesses alive that are otherwise economically unviable (i.e. “zombie companies”). This misallocation of resources leads to a less efficient, less productive and less prosperous Alberta.
And there are other costs to corporate welfare.
For example, between 2007 and 2019 (the latest year of pre-COVID data), every year on average the Alberta government spent 35 cents (out of every dollar of business income tax revenue it collected) on corporate welfare. Given that workers bear the burden of more than half of any business income tax indirectly through lower wages, if the government reduced business income taxes rather than spend money on corporate welfare, workers could benefit.
Moreover, Premier Smith failed in last month’s provincial budget to provide promised personal income tax relief and create a lower tax bracket for incomes below $60,000 to provide $760 in annual savings for Albertans (on average). But in 2019, after adjusting for inflation, the Alberta government spent $2.4 billion on corporate welfare—equivalent to $1,034 per tax filer. Clearly, instead of subsidizing select businesses, the Smith government could have kept its promise to lower personal income taxes.
Finally, there’s the Heritage Fund, which the Alberta government created almost 50 years ago to save a share of the province’s resource wealth for the future.
In her 2024 budget, Premier Smith earmarked $2.0 billion for the Heritage Fund this fiscal year—almost the exact amount spent on corporate welfare each year (on average) between 2007 and 2019. Put another way, the Alberta government could save twice as much in the Heritage Fund in 2024/25 if it ended corporate welfare, which would help Premier Smith keep her promise to build up the Heritage Fund to between $250 billion and $400 billion by 2050.
By eliminating corporate welfare, the Smith government can create fiscal room to reduce personal and business income taxes, or save more in the Heritage Fund. Any of these options will benefit Albertans far more than wasteful billion-dollar subsidies to favoured firms.
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