<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Marita, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had been waiting for the outcome of the Alberta election before responding.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Based on the outcome, I am less confident about an approach I have been advocating for here in Alberta.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alberta has legacy legislation that enables development of rural utility co-ops:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=R21.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=9780779840885" class="">https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=R21.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=9780779840885</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
                
        
        
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Rural Utility Associations
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                                <div class="column"><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,Bold'" class="">Application to incorporate<br class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,Bold'" class="">3</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman,Bold'" class="">(1) </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'" class="">Five or more persons who desire to be associated together in a
</span></font></b></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0432ff" class="">co-operative association with the following objects may apply to be
incorporated under this Act:
</font></b></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0432ff" class="">(a) the principal object of supplying any one or more of the
following to the association’s members primarily in a rural
area:
</font></b></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>(i) electricity;</font></b></span></p><p class=""><b style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>(ii)  natural gas;</font></b></p><p class=""><b style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>(iii)  water, primarily for domestic use;</font></b></p><p class=""><b style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>(iv)  sewage disposal;</font></b></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0432ff" class="">(b) any other secondary object that is permitted under the
regulations. </font></b></span></p>
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                </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A ’secondary object’ is any of the other three listed utilities that isn’t the principal object of an Association.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For almost fifteen years now, I've been pressing the government to add open access data utilities to this list with a heavy emphasis on open access fibre.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So far, there has been virtually no capacity in the Alberta government to grasp the relevance and potency of this approach to accelerating rural broadband development. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There was little if any traction outside of government until COVID, which brought the need for robust rural connectivity more sharply into focus.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In recent months, a provincial non-profit initiative focused on rural broadband development has shown active interest in the concept.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, their interest was rooted in the prospect of a change in provincial government after the recent election. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No such luck, and for now I have no idea whether their interest is still active. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will keep TC posted if/when there are any related developments. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2023, at 2:07 AM, Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net" class="">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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  <div class=""><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Hello Advisors. Just
        wanted to thank Garth, Kathryn and Clarice for responding to
        this request. If there is any info available from Alberta,
        Quebec or Maritimes -- please send what you can re different
        approaches to access. <br class="">
      </font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Thanks</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Marita</font><br class="">
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-26 1:00 p.m., Marita Moll
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      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><p class="">Hello advisors. I will be attending ICANN77 in Washington D.C.
        in a couple of weeks. There is a roundtable discussion:<br class="">
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      <font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class="">"Government
            efforts to expand Broadband Access in the US and Canada"
            will explore and critique federal, state and local
            initiatives to make broadband more available, affordable and
            usable. The panel will look at different approaches taking
            place in urban, rural and Indigenous communities and how
            these efforts are progressing, including programs seeking to
            improve access, financial affordability, device availability
            and end user activation.</span></font></font><strong class=""><br class="">
      </strong><p class=""><strong class="">Date: Monday 12 June - 10:45- 12:15</strong> <br class="">
      </p><p class="">One of our members from National Capital Freenet -- Andrew
        Marty Asare will be speaking remotely about some work he and NCF
        are doing on the ground to get people connected. I am also on
        that panel. I am wondering if any of you have examples I can use
        about how you are working with government programs to fill the
        connectivity gap -- and how that is working out -- or not. This
        is about different approaches -- and I am sure some of you have
        some examples to offer.</p><p class="">Many thanks</p><p class="">Marita<br class="">
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