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Electronic health records protected PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 03 September 2010 21:38

The Information and Privacy Commission, Franklin J. Work has stated that amendments have been made to the Health Information Act and will be enforced on September 1, regarding electronically stored health records.  The new Alberta Electronic Health Record system has been named “Netcare.”  The changes now permit more health service providers to be given access to Netcare, however Commissioner Work expects health providers to know the rules and obey them.  “Health care providers should think twice before checking out boyfriends, girlfriends, ex-spouses, neighbours, etcetera, on Netcare,” said Commission Work.  Those who improperly access health records can be fined as much as $10,000 and warns all users must respect patient confidentiality.  Current users of Netcare are physicians, pharmacists, optometrists, opticians, chiropractors, midwives, podiatrists, dentists, denturists, dental hygienists, and nurses.  However, (according to the news release of August 26) application of the Act has been deferred until March 1, 2011 for dentists and dental hygienists and until September 1, 2011 for nurses.  If you have any concerns regarding who may have accessed your electronic health records, you can ask any health service provider for a copy of your access log. If you have any concerns, please direct them to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commission at 1-888-878-4044.
 
Candidates for election? PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 23 August 2010 15:32
Running for Council?  Are you Ready? Section One
There are many questions to ask and have answered if you are considering running for public office.  Questions like, are you qualified, do you have the time, do you understand the role, do you understand Council’s powers, do you understand your responsibility, do you understand the local legislation, do you understand administration,  and do you understand campaigning.
•Are you qualified? Learn about the requirements for declaring candidacy for elected office including the nomination process, legislative requirements (MGA, and the Local Authorities Elections Act) forms to be filed, and processes to be completed.
•Do you understand the role?  Learn your responsibility in committees of the whole, council meetings and in-camera meetings. Learn about the sections of the MGA that pertain to meetings, pecuniary interest, and expectations with regard to municipal administration, FOIP (privacy commission) and personal conduct.
It is most common for the meetings to present an organized, orderly fashion, therefore most Councils adopt the order called “Roberts Rules of Order.” In doing so, it provides a system of conduct within the meeting.
More to come
We will attempt to answer more of these questions in the next few issues of the ECA Review.
However, in the meantime prospective candidates can become informed as to their duties and responsibilities, if they were elected into public office, by attending workshops.  There is a lot to consider when deciding to run for public office the first time or when deciding to let your name stand for another term. To ensure that you are fully informed there are courses being provided for you by the Government of Alberta during the month of August. You will find them listed on the ‘elections2010’ website.
 
Clydesdakle Wee Donald met a sad end PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:29

Clydesdales are large horses. Really large. In horseman’s talk, they usually stand between 16 and 17 hands and weigh about a short ton.

That means they can stand between 64 and 68 inches at the withers, the highest point on the back, between the shoulder blades. And they weigh somewhere around 2,000 pounds.
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Elaborate work on the Provincial Coat of Arms PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 16 July 2010 19:56
The Alberta Legislature boasted the work of draftsman and modeller, James (Jim) Clutterbuck (1873 - 1954).
His magnificent work on the Coat of Arms  for the Province of Alberta remained until 1980 when a crest and supporters were added to the shield  to form the present day Coat of Arms. James (Jim) Clutterbuck was born on October 5, 1873 in Lincolnshire, England, to Thomas and Amelia Clutterbuck, and  was the second youngest of six children.  With hard work and diligence, James became a skilled tradesman in wood and stone carving, a draftsman and modeller.  He decided to immigrate to Canada on the advice of his London doctors, due to a lung condition related to working in the old English Abbeys.  Clutterbuck  sailed from England on March 1903 on the S.S. Lake Manitoba, along with 1959 others called ‘Barr Colonists.’(Called Barr Colonists after Reverend I. M. Barr,  who determined to plan a large-scale colonization project of the Canadian West with the assistance of Reverend G. E. Lloyd - Alberta Family History Society) To everyone’s surprise, on April 11, 1903, while anchored in the Bay of Fundy, the S.S. Lake Manitoba was sunk by a German mine (during World War 1). The Barr Colonists were transported to St. John on the S.S. Lake Simcoe then by train, ending up in Saskatoonon April 17, 1903. 
Clutterbuck joined forces with three other colonists Charles Barrett, Bert Taylor, and Athol Green, purchasing oxen, a wagon, ploughs, and other supplies needed for homesteading and set off by wagon train to the “Promised Land,” which is now called Lloydminster (named after Reverend G. E. Lloyd). The men pitched their tents  to rest up for a few days, then set out to each pick an area of land to homestead, building a log house with a sod roof, for the four men to live in during the first winter. During the winter of 1904, James Clutterbuck worked in the Tindall Quarry in Winnipeg, cutting stone for the construction of the Union Station in Winnipeg.The following summer, he began the stone carving on the station, then returning to his home to assist in the establishing 
of communities due to the influx of settlers to the area who came on the railroad that had been built all the way to Lloydminster by 1906. In the spring of 1909, the Province of Alberta decided to build the Parliament Buildings and wrote to London England asking for a carver, modeller and draftsman, only to be informed that a man, James Clutterbuck, one of the best apprentices with all the qualifications for all three trades, had immigrated to Canada with the Barr Colonists.
That spring, Clutterbuck received a message, delivered on horseback, from Mr.Gillespie, Superintendent of Buildings for the Province of  Alberta, asking for his services. Clutterback decided to accept the offer and went to Edmonton to begin work carving the Provincial Coat of Arms over both entrances of the old Court House. In 1910, he sketched many of the ornamental caps on the pillars, personally carving  the work over the doorways, then in 1912, modeling the British Coat of Arms that stood over the house Speaker’s chair. The Coat of Arms remained in place until it was changed in 1980 to reflect the present day crest of a beaver with a royal crown on it’s back, symbolic of the fur trade which led to the exploration and settlement of Canada. A Lion is on the left representing Britain and a pronghorn on the right, representing Alberta. Below them is a grassy mount dotted with wild roses and the motto Fortis et Liber, which is Latin for “strong and free.’  
James Clutterbuck returned to farming, marrying Isabella (Bella) Alexanderina Campbell, a neighbour girl who lived among the homesteaders. They had two children, Mary (Maime), born on the farm in 1913 and Thomas, born in the Lloydminster Hospital in 1914. The couple remained on the farm until 1942 when they retired to a residence in Lloydminster. 
James (Jim) Clutterbuck was a great craftsmen of his time and will always be remembered for his talent and quality of work, as a carver, modeller and draftsman. His work still remains for all to see. The Ornamental caps on  all the large pillars both inside and outside, as well as, the ‘Rosettes’ on the  outside of the  Alberta Legislative Building, near the top of the walls (some are missing due to method of gluing the rosettes  into place) are still there today. The Coat of Arms is in storage in a warehouse at the museum.Four generations of dependents are at work to preserve this piece of Alberta’s History. 
 


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