Alberta
What are the new COVID19 measures and who do they effect?
Can we have dinner with our close friend? What exactly is a Cohort anyway? Is it true that we can go swimming even though we can’t play hockey?
We pulled this information From Alberta.ca to help make sense of the new health measures in the areas of Alberta most affected by COVID19.
From the Province of Alberta
Who is affected?
| All purple zone areas | Calgary Area1 | Edmonton Area1 | Fort McMurray | Grande Prairie | Lethbridge | Red Deer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No social gatherings inside your home or outside of your community | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 15-person limit on family & social gatherings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Limit of 3 cohorts, plus child care | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mask use encouraged in all indoor workplaces | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Employers in office settings to reduce employees in the workplace at one time | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Restaurants/pubs stop liquor sales by 10pm, close by 11pm (Nov 13-27) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ban on indoor group fitness classes & team sports (Nov 13-27) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ban on group singing, dancing & performing activities (Nov 13-27) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 50-person limit on wedding and funeral services (indoor & outdoor) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Faith-based gatherings limited to 1/3 capacity | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
How are we affected?
The main enhanced measure is gathering restrictions
A gathering is any situation that brings people together in the same space at the same time for the same purpose. Check with your municipality for additional restrictions in your area.
New gathering limits for all communities on the enhanced measures list
- Stop holding social gatherings in private homes or outside your community
- 15 person limit on indoor and outdoor social and family gatherings
- 50 person limit on wedding ceremonies and funeral services
- Faith-based gatherings limited to 1/3 capacity
- Do not move social gatherings to communities with no restrictions.
- Instead, socialize outdoors or in structured settings, like restaurants or other business that are subject to legal limits and take steps to prevent transmission.
Unless otherwise identified in public health orders, these gathering restrictions are in place:
- 200 people max for outdoor audience-type community events
- 100 people max for outdoor social gatherings and indoor seated audience events
- 50 people max for indoor social gatherings
- No cap for worship gatherings, restaurant, cafes, lounges and bars, casinos and bingo halls, trade shows and exhibits (with public health measures in place)
- keep 2 metres apart from people outside your cohort
- avoid high-risk or prohibited activities
- stay home and get tested if you are sick
From the YouTube channel of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Members of the media join Premier Danielle Smith for a round table on January 21, 2025.
Yakk Stack By Sheldon Yakiwchuk
Prior to Trumps inauguration event and announcement was made that Trump would not be imposing the 25% tariffs…
Which means, Canada seriously dodged a bullet here.
And while the Liberals will most likely frame this as, their success in showing, Bad Orange Man, that they’re tough and ready to burn down what is left of our economy, throwing Alberta under the bus, first…through a nuclear option…
Premier Smith rode this challenge out like the true champion we knew that she would be.
It’s hard to say if this was a legality matter in the grander scheme…or if the 25% tariffs would have truly been as big of an impact on the US…
One thing is clear, however…
Smith was ready to go to the tables with the Trump administration and opt for diplomacy over threats…which should be what we expect from our leaders.
And should these 25% tariffs have gone through…I’m more than sure a Plan B would have been brought out in civil conversations, over screeching rhetoric.
“She’s treasonous”, they screeched.
“She’s supporting her friends in Oil and Gas”, they relent.
“She should put Canada first”, they echo…
And let’s just address these…
Is Walmart beholden to Campbells soup? Fruit of the Loom? Kraft?
Or does Walmart sell products that helps keep their doors open?
Walmart is not beholden to any product…just like Premier Smith isn’t. We have 26% of our GDP – the largest portion – owed to Alberta O&G, something that we have a limited trade partner with, due to the Liberal – Anti-Alberta/Anti-O&G/Anti-Pipeline attitude that wants to spend us further in debt with unreliable and expensive “Renewables”.
What does Alberta get from renewables?
A higher cost for energy, in an affordability crisis, created by the same people who continue to push them…sounds like a terrible deal, for Albertans, and something a true leader would Not Favor.
When Walmart sits down to hash out a deal with Heinz, are they committing treason because they haven’t shown their allegiance to their own, ‘Great Value’ brand Ketchup?
No…other provinces have their own industries and resources, which they are free to continue developing independent of the federal government, as is suitable and supportive of their own economies…Alberta isn’t competing with them, nor Canada as a whole.
Alberta through industry and resource, actually supports Canada through a grand imbalance on “Equalization Payments”…
As do we through paying 50% more into the Canada Pension Plan, than we actually get out of the Canada Pension Plan…to the tune of a $334 Billion Dollars.
And as for this “Team Canada”, horseshit…
The title Premier of Alberta, should hold some clues as to who Premier Smith should be advocating for…as she is the Premier of Alberta and Not the Prime Minister, nor leader in the Liberal Party that has created this fiasco, to begin with.
Rail, as they may…other provinces can’t cast a vote in her support, either way…
None of the other provinces, through Members of Parliament, nor through Premiers, came to support Alberta and our economy through a number of Federal Bills that railed on our provincial resources…
Worse yet…these hypocrites cash cheques from our province, while telling us how to diversify our economy…to which I’d state one thing unequivocally…
If we wanted to be a Have Not Province…like you are…we’ll come and ask you for your advice.
Until then…
I’ll hold my Alberta Flag Higher than my Canadian…
And be proud today, of having the only Premier in the country of Canada, worthy of any praise today!
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