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Closed six weeks: Yellowknife schools to reopen Monday as COVID-19 cases decline
YELLOWKNIFE - Schools in Yellowknife and surrounding areas are to reopen Monday after a six-week closure during a widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in the Northwest Territories. Cases have declined in t...
Oct 20, 2021
Health-care workers demand Trudeau fast track paid sick-leave policy
OTTAWA - A coalition of front-line health-care workers has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fast-track proposed legislative amendments to grant paid sick leave to federally regulated workers. Tr...
Oct 20, 2021
More needed to prevent deaths from climate-change driven heat waves, fires: report
OTTAWA - A new report examining the health impacts of climate change says more Canadians than ever are facing serious health risks from heat waves and wildfires, prompting warnings from doctors that w...
Oct 20, 2021
Trudeau urged to make decriminalization of illicit drugs a priority
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being urged to decriminalize the possession and use of illicit drugs as a way to combat the opioid crisis that has resulted in thousands of deaths in Canada. ...
Oct 20, 2021
Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cries as he presents COVID-19 modelling
REGINA - Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cried Wednesday during a teleconference on COVID-19 modelling in the province. Dr. Saqib Shahab said it's upsetting to see what is happening in Sas...
Oct 20, 2021
Proposed Crowsnest Pass coal mine could become renewable energy complex instead
CALGARY - An Australian company that had proposed a new coal mine for southern Alberta now says it may build a green hydrogen facility on the site instead.Montem Resources Ltd. says it is working on p...
Oct 20, 2021
New mayors of Edmonton & Calgary, Kenney prepared to work together
Edmonton's next mayor says his goal with Premier Jason Kenney will be to keep it respectful and get things done.Amarjeet Sohi says he's worked with Kenney before when Sohi was a cabinet minister in Pr...
Oct 20, 2021
Central Alberta organizations to benefit from rural-based capital funding boost
Some counties and organizations throughout central Alberta are among 16 throughout the province that stand to benefit from a funding boost, courtesy of Farm Credit Canada (FCC).FCC is giving $1.5 mill...
Oct 20, 2021
City releases unofficial complete vote tally after recount
The City of Red Deer has released unofficial election results which reflect 100 per cent of polls counted, and the completion of a recount.The recount was performed on Oct. 19 after an isolated techni...
Oct 20, 2021
Annual inflation rate hits 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - The cost to put food on the table and gasoline in the car pushed up the cost of living in September, lifting the annual pace of price increases to a near two-decade high with no clear end in ...
Oct 20, 2021