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Biography
She has been an environmental advocate her entire life.
Amber Murray has extensive experience in land management and design. She has worked with turf grass, aesthetic gardens, functional landscapes, greenhouses, small food crops, urban farming, permaculture, and plant retail.
Her background includes leadership of large teams, development and execution of equipment and procedure training programs, and management of time-constrained landscape projects.
During the quiet hours of many winters, Amber attended five post-secondary institutions in Alberta for her undergraduate degree, continuing education in English and literature, short courses in agriculture, and education. She has an unusual blend of lifelong outdoor work experience with a penchant for research, writing, and public speaking.
Amber is focused on incorporating food plants into urban aesthetic design, using hardy cultivars to augment shade canopy, developing in-ground and elevated water harvesting, experimenting with composting and mulch for moisture retention and soil health, and constantly upgrading local companion planting for fertility and germination. She has offered her experience to Lethbridge’s Green Haven Garden Centre for the past two growing seasons and enjoys working with established and emerging local landscaping enthusiasts. In return, Green Haven has awakened her extensive new interest in the importance of planting trees and maintaining a healthy canopy in the urban landscape. She also writes for Environment Lethbridge, speaks at the Coulee Commentators Club, and spends as much time as she can walking the paths of kaawahkÓÍstsi (Lethbridge coulees).
Amber and her family moved to Lethbridge in 2023 after seven years designing and building a large, subsistence-based, urban farm in Cardston County with water storage, laying hens, honeybees, fruit trees, herbs, hay, and several thousand square feet of annual and perennial garden beds. She has seen and felt the increasing prevalence of drought in the southwest corner of Alberta and has experienced two summers where irrigation water was limited early and significantly. She understands and reflects the water concerns of agricultural producers in the area.
Amber believes that the most important industry in southern Alberta is agriculture. She has joined the Green Party of Canada as a candidate to make federal water protection a priority for the citizens of Lethbridge.
Reason for running
Water Protection
We must first put a stop to the Grassy Mountain Coal Exploration application with another federal review of aquatic health in the headwaters of the Oldman. Times are much different than they were in 2021, with the American threat to Canadian soverignty and economic stability. Both the Conservative and Liberal parties have made pledges to expedite resource extraction nationally, with each offering financial rewards to First Nations should they approve and get involved in resource projects. The NDP has, obviously, vowed to protect workers. These pledges will require a FIRM focus on the environment and a plan for alternative ways that the federation could help monetize the eastern slopes lands to offer jobs. I have a plan that doesn't involve pitting much-needed jobs in the string of small coal towns of the Crowsnest Pass against the need for clean water to agriculture (and humans) downstream.
Electoral Reform
Voters in Alberta and western Canada, no matter their political stripe, seem to have only one voice in Ottawa: opposition. We have put in this position because the large parties in this country will not consider electoral reform so that the popular vote, rather than an archaic first-past-the-post system dictates the make up of the House of Commons, not even when they have a majority and are able to improve representation. Why? Because it suits the large parties to keep themselves large. It suits eastern Canada to keep decision-making power in the large eastern provinces. We need electoral reform for real representation of ALL Canadians: for all voices to be heard.
Federal Charter Rights
Three provinces have recently used the notwithstanding clause as a legal loophole to enact policies and legislation that remove the rights of workers, religious minorities, and trans and nonbinary children. Alberta is about to join that group. Before you shrug that off and agree with it, think about what OTHER rights could be removed by a different government in power. Think about things like vaccination requirements at public schools and publicly-funded institutions. Think about religious freedoms. Think about how the notwithstanding clause can be used against you and your federally-protected rights. Alberta is and has always been a province of freedom and hard-work in the federation of Canada. Nobody in this province should lose their federally-protected rights on the whim of a new provincial government. We need to be having difficult conversations, not removing rights.
Folks, there is so much going on right now that we, Lethbridge and area, will get lost in the noise and the chaos Please vote for real change. I promise an honest and transparent effort to get this accomplished.
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