The Alberta government is planning to pilot a project to accurately track the number of people and vehicles accessing day areas and trails in provincial parks and recreation areas.
CALGARY For at least the past year in Calgary, lawn signs have been popping up one after another, expressing support for a string of issues. Alberta Parks, headwaters coal mining, post-secondary education, health care workers are just some of the hot-button topics raised by the abundant signage. There might not be an election in sight for a while, but one expert said that s what it s all about. To think that these signs aren t political would be very much misreading them, said Janet Brown, a pollster and political researcher. They are a new tactic that a lot of public affairs organizations are using.