News & Events

The Government of Alberta has held several virtual engagement sessions over the last couple of months. Each of these consisted of half-day sessions with invited representatives from regulated occupations and members Alberta Labour and Immigration. Representatives were sent discussion guides with background information and a list of discussion questions for consideration. Alberta Labour personnel were present to facilitate break out group discussions and to take notes on suggestions made in the meetings. In addition, regulatory associations were invited to submit written submissions to the Government.

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) is hosting a virtual Emerging Professionals Summit on September 26, 2020. This event, tailored to university students and members-in-training, provides an opportunity to gain the skills to advance as a professional.

Building on the success of the WaterTech series, the Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA) is expanding its spring conference. EnviroTech features water as a key theme, but, ESAA is expanding the program to include other key components of the environment industry including: air, alternative energy, climate change, laboratory, regulatory and waste management.

On May 5, 2020, our Executive Director, Kathy Janzen, was the target of an email malware attack through her personal email account. During this attack, some of our members, and others, received spam fragments linked to previous email threads, with a new attachment embedded. If not already done so, this email message should be immediately deleted.