Alberta

UCP co-founder urges Alberta premier to 'fire yourself' from intergovernmental post

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is getting some unsolicited advice from the co-founder of the United Conservative Party: fire yourself as the intergovernmental affairs minister.Brian Jean says...

Feb 03, 2021

$68.5 million announced for Alberta treatment and care facilities

EDMONTON, AB- Premier Jason Kenney announced today $68.5 million in supports will go towards Albertans and staff in continuing care, residential addiction and mental health treatment facilities and ho...

Feb 03, 2021

Jason Kenney defends Rockies coal policy, calls old protections a 'dead letter'

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Albertans have no cause to worry over his government quietly throwing out a coal policy that protected the Rocky Mountains for more than four decades."No r...

Feb 03, 2021

Alberta reports 57 variant cases of COVID-19 virus, daycare, schools affected

EDMONTON - Alberta now has 57 cases of the variant strains of COVID-19, with a daycare and three Calgary school classrooms affected.Chief medical health officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says there are 50 cas...

Feb 02, 2021

Expert says hospitalizations good way to determine when to ease restrictions

CALGARY - An expert says the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is a good way to determine when to ease restrictions.But Dr. Christopher Mody with the University of Calgary says the same can'...

Feb 02, 2021

U of L studies on cannabis strain’s impact on COVID advance to clinical study stage

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Two COVID-19 studies out of the University of Lethbridge have been published in a top bio-medical journal.The studies by Drs. Igor and Olga Kovalchuk, who are both U of L biology prof...

Feb 02, 2021

Alberta RCMP notes decrease in motor vehicle theft during pandemic

EDMONTON, AB - Thefts of and from motor vehicles have decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic.That's according to Alberta RCMP. Mounties compared data in RCMP jurisdictions from March to December 2019 ...

Feb 02, 2021

Balzac Billy predicts six more weeks of winter in the Prairies

ROCKY VIEW COUNTY, AB - Although three of Canada's famous weather predicting groundhogs have called an early spring, Balzac Billy says things might be a little different in the Prairies.Balzac Billy i...

Feb 02, 2021

Alberta town asks province for stop-work order on coal exploration in Rocky Mountains

HIGH RIVER - An Alberta town in the Rocky Mountain foothills wants the provincial government to order a stop to increasingly controversial coal exploration in the region."Coal exploration is causing i...

Feb 01, 2021

Black History Month Celebration at the Alberta Legislature

An online celebration of Black History Month will take place in the Alberta Legislature rotunda at 12:15 p.m. this Thursday, February 4."Black History Month not only honours early Black settlers for t...

Feb 01, 2021