We have an excellent slate of nominees for the ACPA Board of Directors. Four director positions are available in 2017.
 

The nominees to date are

• Steve Jakeway
  (Radient Technologies, Edmonton)
  view Steve's biography
   

• Ngozi Ogoke

(Calgary) 

view Ngozi's biography 
 

• Jennifer Reid
  (Shell, Calgary)
  view Jennifer's biography
   

• Sanjay Sharma
  (Radiopharmaceutical Centre, Edmonton)
  view Sanjay's biography  
   

•  Shiva Zohrehvand
  (Calgary) 
  view Shiva's biography 
   

If you would also like to run, the  nomination form for 2017 is available on the bottom of the Board of Directors page on the ACPA website.

Any nominations from the membership must be received at the ACPA office by March 22, 2017, together with the written consent of the nominee, who must be a member in good standing. Each nomination must be signed by at least three (3) members in good standing. The three sponsoring members may fax, mail or e-mail separate copies of the nomination sheet with their signature and the name of the nominee, if they cannot all sign a single copy. 

Election ballots will be issued by April 6, 2017.The new Board will be introduced at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 6, 2017.

The ACPA Board has received a legal opinion regarding this ruling, and our lawyers concluded that the ACPA has no recourse in this matter and that Alberta Labour was correctly interpreting the Regulation as written.
 

The Board requested an exemption for our Retired and Student Member categories. However, the decision of Alberta Labour was that the Minister could not make an exception to the Regulation and therefore the original ruling stands.
 

These were not the responses that we had hoped for.
 

Because of this Alberta Labour ruling, the Board and the Registration and Legislative Committees are proposing the following changes to the ACPA Bylaws and Board policies:
 

1. Removal of references.

2. Retired Members. Our errors and omissions insurance providers require that Retired Members must be maintained on an ACPA membership register to qualify for their insurance plans. To provide the necessary status for these members, Section 14 of the Bylaws ("Temporary Leave of Absence") will be significantly amended into "Non-Practicing Leave of Absence." The proposed changes will allow registered and former registered members to obtain non-practicing status and to renew that status annually. Non-practicing members will retain their registration with the ACPA, the right to use of their registered title, and the right to vote and serve as a registered member. As registered members, they will continue to be governed by the Act (POARA), the Professional Chemists Regulation, the ACPA Bylaws, and the ACPA Code of Ethics. However, these members will be exempt from completing professional development credits. In return, members granted non-practicing leaves of absence shall not

a. engage in the practice of chemistry,

b. exercise any sign-off privileges, or

c. use their professional stamps.

Such members who wish to be reinstated as practicing members will first have to comply with any conditions set by the Registrar and the Practice Review Committee.

The Board recognizes that this is a very frustrating situation for our members in the remaining non-regulated categories.

To provide a solution for as many of these members as possible, the Board is proposing the following:

1. Provisional Professional Chemists.
These members will be temporarily transferred into the Chemist-in-Training category. When they have completed the mandatory professional coursework (Ethics for Chemists and the Jurisprudence Course), they will be automatically upgraded to Professional Chemist membership.

2. RChem, RCIT, RTChem, and CTT Members.

The Registration Committee will review the education and work experience of all those who were granted membership in these non-regulated categories. The Committee will determine if there is now a reasonable basis for admitting at least some of these members into either the Professional Chemist or Chemist-in-Training membership categories.

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ACPA Office
P.O. Box 21017
Edmonton, AB  T6R 2V4
Phone: 780-413-0004
Fax: 780-413-0076
E-mail: acpaoffice(AT)pchem.ca