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• After a two-week hiatus, the Legislature will be sitting for morning, afternoon, and evening sessions Tuesday and Wednesday, but only for morning and afternoon sessions on Thursday. When business gets underway on Tuesday, the Assembly will consider Bill 2, the Financial Statutes Amendment Act (2022) and Bill 10, the Health Professions (Protecting Women and Girls) Amendment Act (2022).
• Committees will be busy this week. On Tuesday, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts will meet to consider the Ministry of Municipal Affairs Annual Report as well as the Committee’s own annual report. On Thursday, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, the Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members’ Public Bills will meet to discuss Bill 204 (the Anti-Racism Act) as well as Bill 205 (the Human Tissue and Organ Donation (Mandatory Referral) Amendment Act, 2022). Finally, the Select Special Information and Privacy Commissioner Search Committee will meet on Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. No agenda has been posted for this meeting yet.
• A bounty on wild pigs is now available in Alberta. The government is paying $75 dollars per boar, as well as asking Albertans to report any sightings or signs of the animals. The bounty program will be administered by participating municipalities. So far, Stettler County and the Municipal District of Peace have signed on. 

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• As we are coming up on the Easter weekend, the Legislature continues its break until April 19th. When the Assembly returns, it will consider Bill 2, the Financial Statutes Amendment Act, 2022, and Bill 10, the Health Professions (Protecting Women and Girls) Amendment Act, 2022.
• Tomorrow, the Select Special Committee on Real Property Rights will hold two meetings, the first from 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Medicine Hat and the second from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in Fort Macleod. Meetings will continue on Wednesday in Hanna from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm and on Thursday in Eckville from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.
• Mail-in ballots will be sent to eligible United Conservative Party members to vote on Jason Kenney’s leadership this week. Eligible UCP members will have until 5:00 pm on May 11th to return their ballot. Premier Kenney’s leadership has been questioned on a near-constant basis, even within his own party. The original leadership race was to be held in person in Red Deer last weekend. 

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