Category Archives: Alberta
Albertans challenged to embrace the cold with Winter Walk Day
Alberta Blue Cross is challenging Albertans to embrace the cold and participate in Winter Walk Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. On Winter Walk Day, everyone is encouraged to walk at least 15 minutes outside ...
Jan 22, 2025
Alberta students highest-ranked in financial literacy in global tests
Students in Alberta are being heralded as having the highest levels of financial literacy in the country.The 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) saw 20 countries, including eigh...
Jan 22, 2025
Experts express hope for smokeless Canada as country marks National Non-Smoking Week
National Non-Smoking Week is underway, and above all, it aims to underscore the cold, hard fact that 46,000 Canadians are dying from smoking-related causes each year.As the observance happens Jan. 19-...
Jan 21, 2025
Crop insurance premiums going up in 2025 says AFSC
AFSC says in a news release posted to its website that Alberta farmers can expect an increase in crop insurance premiums for this year.The company says, quote, "loss experience from previous dry years...
Jan 21, 2025
Smith focused on Canada-U.S. trade deficit, not Trump tariff threats
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been down in the United States recently, talking to U.S. President Donald Trump about his imposed 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods, which are expected to st...
Jan 21, 2025
Alberta government lifts coal mining moratorium, critics say it's 'open season'
Alberta's government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.It's a move critics say means the province has declared o...
Jan 21, 2025
Premier Danielle Smith welcomes U.S. tariff reprieve but calls for action
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith welcomed the U.S. tariff reprieve and called for strategic action in a statement on Jan. 20.-READ: Donald Trump doesn't mention Canada in inaugural speech as Trudeau cal...
Jan 20, 2025
Alberta RCMP and law enforcement partners launch Operation Cold Start
Law enforcement agencies throughout Alberta are working to reduce the theft of idling vehicles during the winter.The RCMP is partnering with many police detachments for the initiative.RCMP Auto Theft ...
Jan 20, 2025
Forestry and parks minister travelling to Tennessee to promote Alberta's outdoors
Alberta's Minister of Forestry and Parks, Todd Loewen, is travelling to Tennessee to promote the province's outdoors and the annual Minister's Special License Program. From Jan. 22-26, Loewen will att...
Jan 20, 2025
Premier Danielle Smith in Washington for inauguration and to promote Alberta relationship
Premier Danielle Smith is in Washington, D.C. to solidify Alberta's role in North American energy, food and data security and to watch president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration from the Canadian Emb...
Jan 20, 2025