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Week ending 23 Apr 2010 Vol 24, No 32
Feature Article: The auditor general's spring report has prompted at least some action on worker safety; its comments on occupational disease statistics show more could be done. (Auditor general's April report, PDF, 1.0 MB)
Also in this week's edition:
- Criticism of the interim report from the electoral boundaries commission is normal - but a 207-page submission from Progressive Conservative MLAs prompts accusations of political interference. (PC submission, PDF, 11.9 MB)
- The government tries to quell rural unrest over property rights issues.
- Debate on a private member's bill to help curb child pornography deepens the divide between Conservative MLAs and two former colleagues who jumped to the Wildrose Alliance.
- The public accounts committee rescinds a week-old motion that would have restricted its chairman's freedom of action.
- The School Act rewrite may not be introduced in the legislature this fall, after all.
- A bill on municipal utility franchise fees is referred to a legislature committee.
- Searching for ways to regain lost popularity, the government dusts off an old tool - cabinet tours.
- Guy Boutilier, the independent MLA who was kicked out of the government caucus by the premier, says the premier is in so much trouble with the PC party that he will resort to a desperate measure next year.
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