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Stronger pesticide management processes required to ensure protection to environmental and human health
A new report by the Auditor General of Alberta has found that the Department of Alberta Environment and Parks does not have adequate processes to minimize the risk of inappropriate pesticide use in th...
Mar 22, 2022
Auditor General recommends improved grant monitoring processes
A new report issued by Auditor General Doug Wylie highlights the need for improved grant monitoring processes to ensure grant objectives are achieved.Government officials say the Department of Health ...
Mar 22, 2022
Auditor General report provides learnings for design of future emergency payment programs
The Auditor General of Alberta has found that Alberta Labour and Immigration had processes to quickly make payments to applicants assessed as eligible under its Emergency Isolation Support (EIS) Progr...
Mar 22, 2022
Calgary Flames file lawsuit against insurers for $125 million in losses due to COVID
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames organization has filed a lawsuit against its insurers for an estimated $125 million in losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Hockey League halted the hockey se...
Mar 22, 2022
$1 billion job creation and environmental cleanup program lacks formal risk management processes
The Auditor General of Alberta has found the Department of Energy has designed and implemented the Site Rehabilitation Program to meet the program's objectives. As a result, government officials say g...
Mar 22, 2022
Wright headlines CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game as event returns after pandemic hiatus
KITCHENER, Ont. - Shane Wright faced the same uncertainty every junior hockey player experienced the last two years. The shutdowns, restarts, postponements and cancellations brought on by COVID-19 - t...
Mar 22, 2022
Feds mum on next step in fighter jet competition
OTTAWA - Federal procurement officials won't say when Canada will take the next step in the years-long process of selecting a new fighter jet. The federal government announced in December that it had ...
Mar 22, 2022
Takeaways: Jackson hearings turn to race, children's books
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first full day of questions Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delved quickly into very big ones on judicial philosophy, terrorism and race, a grueling...
Mar 22, 2022
Maple Leafs to unveil Next Gen jerseys designed in collaboration with Justin Bieber
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will debut their Next Gen uniform on Wednesday that was created in collaboration with Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber. The first reversible sweater in North American ...
Mar 22, 2022
Student demonstration marks decade since Quebec's so-called 'Maple Spring' protests
MONTREAL - Several hundred students took to the streets of Montreal today, marking a decade since their peers did the same during the so-called "Maple Spring" of 2012. It was one of several demonstrat...
Mar 22, 2022