Alberta Environment and Protected Areas inspection confirms that “the pit was operating outside the approved boundary,” contradicting the earlier “cover-up” by former Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver, who essentially accepted the village’s explanation for the missing taxpayer funds as a miscalculation, despite the giant hole in the ground and aggregate estimated to be worth millions of dollars leaving the pit without a dime in royalties reflected in the village’s

Millions of dollars’ worth of gravel has left the municipal pit of this small Alberta village — but the money is nowhere to be found, and taxes keep climbing. I travelled to Empress, a forgotten community of about one hundred people near the Saskatchewan border to cover the public municipal election debate. When I arrived to film, the hall manager told me to leave — because he didn’t like my reporting on the missing taxpayer funds. A physical altercation ensued. WHERE IS THE