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'No crying': Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic
EDMONTON - The Venezuelan woman who believes she was used as part of Jason Kenney's argument not to lockdown restaurants in the province remembers her encounter with the premier as less dramatic than ...
Nov 26, 2020
Province improves access to trucking jobs
The provincial government has established a grant program and a training program to get more truck drivers behind the wheel.In a release, the government says a $3-million Driving Back to Work grant pr...
Nov 26, 2020
Innisfail RCMP Charity Checkstop postponed
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the postponement of another holiday tradition in central Alberta as this year's Innisfail RCMP Charity Checkstop has been postponed. This means no items are being coll...
Nov 26, 2020
Blackfalds adjusts to new public health measures
In response to the provincial government's state of public health emergency, new mandatory measures will be implemented in the Town of Blackfalds starting Nov. 30.As per Bylaw 1253.20, the public is n...
Nov 26, 2020
Emergency doctors say city councillor wrong about them being 'muzzled' over COVID-19
A group of 21 physicians who make up the emergency room team at Red Deer Regional Hospital says it unanimously disagrees with comments made this week by City Councillor Buck Buchanan.During a meeting ...
Nov 26, 2020
As Alberta's COVID-19 cases rise, so does tension over world junior championship
Alberta's spike in COVID-19 infections and the virus's infiltration of Canada's team is concerning for the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton, according to a health and law expert and an epi...
Nov 26, 2020
Alberta to pilot rapid COVID-19 testing program
Alberta will soon begin piloting point-of-care rapid testing for COVID-19 at select sites across the province.The government says in a release that over the last two months, Alberta Health Services (A...
Nov 26, 2020
Boy dead, officer hurt in Kawartha Lakes, Ont.; police watchdog investigating
A one-year-old boy was fatally shot and his father and a provincial police officer injured Thursday following an alleged abduction in central Ontario, the province's police watchdog says. The Special ...
Nov 26, 2020
AOC Among Us: progressive firebrand to join NDP leader for online gaming sesh Friday
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The leader of the New Democrats has thrown down the gauntlet to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Canada-U. S. relations may never be the same. Jagmeet Singh challenged the firebr...
Nov 26, 2020
Hinshaw says she doesn't dictate policy decisions
EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says she does not dictate public health decisions, nor should she, because she is not an elected official.Dr. Deena Hinshaw says she's "profoundly ...
Nov 26, 2020