WestJet and Calgary Transit are both offering unique seating arrangements, and the Alberta Motor Association and SAIT have both announced innovations of their own on April 1, 2015.
In a YouTube video, Calgary-based airline WestJet announced a new service for the busy passenger who is seeking to be boarded much faster than ever before.
"Your seat in the lounge, is your seat on the plane," a WestJet spokesperson says in the video.
The service allows for business travellers to sit down and enjoy an uninterrupted period of work as their seat wheels itself all the way on board the aircraft.
Officials say it also helps weary travellers. Those passengers can sit down, falling asleep in one city while waking up in the other.
Calgary Transit also announced their own innovation, the Jolt.
The new system is aimed at improving passenger etiquette on board buses and trains by encouraging seated passenger to give up their seats to those who need them a bit more.
How it does that is through the use of cameras, which record the amount of time someone is sitting in a seat and if they are there for too long when someone more deserving of the seat is standing nearby, the system delivers a mild electric shock to prompt them to stand up.
Ron Collins, spokesperson for Calgary Transit, says the shock isn't enough to injure, but just to let the message be known.
The Alberta Motor Association has also announced a new course for future drivers on April 1.
The AMA released a video about the Pre-Learner's Driver Education Program, geared at preparing Albertans as young as six to be on the road.
"You start riding a bike at three or four years old, why not start driving a car at five or six?" says Rick, the AMA instructor in the video.
The company says the course is the logical next step, relieving parents of the duties of getting their children to dance and hockey practice.
Autumn, one of the graduates, says that she is glad to help out her parents and go out where she wants, whenever she wants.
SAIT, meanwhile, has decided to come up with a solution to one of the safety issues on campus - students and teachers navigating their way around without looking up from their cell phones or mobile devices.
The Walk-a-Bot program, began as a pilot project in March, says the school. In it, robots built and programmed by SAIT's School of Manufacturing and Automation, help ferry students from place to place while they use their devices.
Kevin Barrett, SAIT's Health, Safety, and Environment department manager, says while there have been no reported injuries caused by distracted walking at SAIT, the potential is there as long as people refuse to look up from their phones.
“Some people will walk across the entire campus with their head down,” says Barrett in a release. “We’ve given these people a way to surf the web or read emails on-the-go, without putting other pedestrians at risk of a collision."
The schools say they hope to bring more Walk-a-Bots to the SAIT campus in time for the fall semester.
Alberta's political parties also made some interesting announcements, with Liberal Party leader David Swann announcing he would be taking a sabbatical from politics to pick up the sickle and get some hands on experience working in the province's agriculture industry.
Rachel Notley, leader of Alberta's NDP, announced a proposed Twitter Tax, to ensure that all Albertans who currently use the social media service to pay their fair share.
"We need to ensure that those who use Twitter the most, like the Alberta Party, are paying their fair share," Notley said in a release.
Notley also said that when the Twitter Tax is implemented, the total characters per tweet will be cut in half from 140 to 70.
