Category Archives: Alberta
Some Alberta minor hockey players getting heat for Indigenous locker room dance
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The Fort McMurray Minor Hockey Association has apologized after a video of three players doing an Indigenous dance in a locker room caused an uproar. In the video, a boy is seen...
Jan 22, 2019
Province partially backstopping new $2 billion dollar bitumen upgrader
CALGARY – The Alberta government is providing a $440 million loan guarantee to help a Calgary-based company build a new bitumen upgrader east of Edmonton. Value Creation Incorporated says itR...
Jan 22, 2019
Former southern Alberta teacher sentenced to 30 months in jail
LETHBRIDGE – A former fourth grade teacher who worked at an elementary school in Brocket, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail for making and possessing child pornography. 44-year-old Mark ...
Jan 22, 2019
Parks Canada issues warning after cougar sightings near Banff
BANFF- Cougars prowling for food around the Banff townsite have triggered a warning from Parks Canada about the big cats. People are being reminded to travel in groups, make noise, carry bear spray an...
Jan 22, 2019
NDP cabinet minister Sandra Jansen not running in 2019
EDMONTON – A Calgary NDP cabinet minister who left the Progressive Conservatives over what she said was personal abuse and an unacceptable shift to the right says she won’t run in the next...
Jan 22, 2019
Province embarks on agricultural waste recycling pilot project
EDMONTON — It isn’t easy keeping farm yards, fields, ditches and pastures free of platstic twine and other plastic castoffs. However, a three-year pilot program to recycle agricultural pla...
Jan 22, 2019
Calgary police investigating thefts of police SUV and car with infant inside
CALGARY – A man is in custody following the theft of a marked police car in southwest Calgary. Police say the car was stolen this afternoon while an officer was responding to a report of a suspi...
Jan 21, 2019
United Conservatives leader Jason Kenney disputes expense allegations while MP
EDMONTON - Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and his staff are firing back at a lawyer who is questioning Kenney’s residential expense claims from his time as a cabinet minister in...
Jan 21, 2019
Police investigate couple accused of sex acts on train
Police are investigating after a couple allegedly took the meaning of “Love Train” a bit too literally. RCMP removed two people from a Via Rail train in Jasper on Jan. 5 at 1 p.m. after re...
Jan 21, 2019
Woman offers luxury Alberta home for just $25 and a flair for the written word
MILLARVILLE, Alta. - A southern Alberta woman who has been having trouble finding a buyer for her luxury home with a panoramic mountain view has turned to the power of the written word to help find a ...
Jan 21, 2019