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Archive: November 20, 2025
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Understanding Occupier’s Liability: Halloween Hazards and your responsibility as a homeowner
With Halloween decorations lighting up neighbourhoods and trick-or-treaters roaming the streets, it’s a fun time of year – but it can also come with unexpected risks. From tangled extension cords and unlit steps to icy sidewalks and overexcited pets, accidents can happen quickly. When they do, Alberta’s Occupiers’ Liability Act helps determine who may be responsible.INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The lands on which Edmonton sits and the North Saskatchewan River that runs through it have been the sites of natural abundance, ceremony and culture, travel and rest, relationship building, making, and trading for Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Edmonton is located within Treaty 6 Territory and within the Metis homelands and Metis Nation of Alberta Region 4. We acknowledge this land as the traditional territories of many First Nations such as the Nehiyaw (Cree), Denesuline (Dene), Nakota Sioux (Stoney), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot).
Weir Bowen acknowledges the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.