Category Archives: Alberta
Kenney tells party-goers to ‘knock it off’ amid rising COVID-19 cases
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it's time to "up our game" when it comes to COVID-19 by putting a lid on super-spreader house parties.Alberta reported a one-day record of 622 cases on Friday and hos...
Nov 3, 2020
Service of Remembrance at the Alberta Legislature
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, the Honourable Nathan Cooper, will host a service of remembrance at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, to honour those who have lost their live...
Nov 3, 2020
Prison justice society urges 'drastic action' as COVID-19 spreads in Calgary jail
CALGARY - The president of the Alberta Prison Justice Society is calling for drastic action after almost two-thirds of inmates at the Calgary Correctional Centre contracted COVID-19.Amanda Hart-Dowhun...
Nov 2, 2020
Semi driver stopped by fake police car near Consort: RCMP
Mounties in central Alberta are investigating after a semi driver was reportedly pulled over by fake police car. Consort RCMP say it was at about 10:40 a.m. Monday when the driver of a semi-tractor he...
Nov 2, 2020
Alberta politicians use duelling tunes to make parks arguments
EDMONTON - Alberta politicians are reaching deep into pop music's memory bank hoping that their messages about the province's parks stick in people's ears.The United Conservative government released a...
Nov 2, 2020
Feds announce $100 million for 'green' jobs in Alberta that fight climate change
OTTAWA, ONT. -- The Canadian government is providing a bundle of money to Alberta, during what it calls the "economically challenging time caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic." However, the money i...
Nov 2, 2020
Alberta's quarantine pilot project for international travellers now underway
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Those entering the province through one of two ports of entry will be able to reach their destination much sooner thanks to a new quarantine pilot project.The provincial and federal g...
Nov 2, 2020
Canadian soldier killed in Netherlands in Second World War identified
OTTAWA - The Defence Department says it's identified remains of a Canadian soldier buried in a cemetery in the Netherlands near the end of the Second World War. Trooper Henry George Johnston's identit...
Nov 2, 2020
Parks Canada plans first captive breeding program for Jasper National Park caribou
EDMONTON - Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding progr...
Nov 2, 2020
Soldier dies after live fire exercise at CFB Wainwright
A Canadian soldier has died during a training exercise at a military base in Alberta. The Department of National Defence offered more details Sunday following next of kin notification, saying that 29-...
Oct 31, 2020