Category Archives: Alberta
Injury Prevention Centre offers winter tips for avoiding falls
Partnering together, Alberta Blue Cross and and the Alberta Injury Prevention Centre encourage Albertans to take steps to prevent fall-related injuries as a part of their annual Finding Balance campai...
Nov 5, 2024
Water Act applications see reduced wait times
The Government of Alberta says it has reduced wait times for businesses, landowners, and communities to receive licences through the Water Act by 57 per cent over the past four years.Officials say the...
Nov 5, 2024
Alberta announces funding to keep province rat-free
A new campaign is reminding Albertans to do their part to help keep Alberta rat-free.For more than 70 years, Alberta has proudly been rat-free, meaning the province prevents the pest from establishing...
Nov 5, 2024
Alberta government investing $42 million into health care
The Alberta government is making moves to advance primary care in the province.On Tuesday they announced the public will benefit from a $42-million investment to bring in more health providers and exp...
Nov 5, 2024
Federal emissions cap a "sucker-punch" to province, Alberta says
The Government of Alberta is calling a federal announcement capping oil and gas emissions one that, "will hurt Canadians."On Monday, Ottawa shared that it has drafted regulations to cap pollution, dri...
Nov 4, 2024
AHS makes final Connect Care roll out
Alberta Health Services (AHS) completed its ninth and final launch of Connect Care on Nov. 2, putting more than 11,000 additional staff and physicians at 155 AHS-partner sites and locations onto a com...
Nov 4, 2024
Albertans invited to give comments on province's Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Albertans are invited to participate in a conversation about the province's long-term savings fund, the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, by the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on the fund ...
Nov 4, 2024
'Canada is watching': New northern Alberta police service trying to lead by example
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - On the second floor of a building where most offices are without doors, the ceilings hang low and the carpets don't match, the chief of Grande Prairie's new police force gets d...
Nov 4, 2024
Pathways seeking bids for part of its proposed carbon capture network: Imperial
The Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies has issued a request for proposals to pipe manufacturers for the massive carbon capture and storage network it wants to build in northern Alberta.The ...
Nov 1, 2024
Alberta Appeal Court upholds sentence for Ontario trucker in Edmonton hotel killing
EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a...
Nov 1, 2024