Category Archives: Alberta
United Conservative Jason Kenney turfs UPC member amid report of hateful views
EDMONTON - Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney has turfed a party member who once ran the call centre for his leadership bid amid reports the worker is behind an online store that sells wh...
Oct 30, 2018
Suspect admits to stabbing deaths of man, woman at Alberta work camp
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - A trial in northern Alberta is hearing grisly details about a work camp cook who killed two other workers - stabbing one man more than 70 times, cutting off parts of his body a...
Oct 30, 2018
Alberta Appeal Court upholds sentence of man for kidnapping, cutting off thumb
EDMONTON - Alberta’s highest court has upheld a 12-year sentence for a man who cut off his victim’s thumb during an abduction. But a dissenting opinion means the case can automatically be ...
Oct 30, 2018
Indigenous legal fund pitch a 'divide-and-conquer' tactic: Senator
CALGARY - A Manitoba senator says a proposal by Alberta’s United Conservatives to pick up the legal tabs of pro-pipeline First Nations is an example of age-old “divide-and-conquer” t...
Oct 30, 2018
'No answers for me:' Chief says First Nations left out of McMurray fire response
It was May 8, 2016, and the Fort McMurray wildfire was in full blaze. Municipal and provincial leaders had gathered to discuss a response when Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation ...
Oct 30, 2018
Three inducted into Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame
EDMONTON- Two of the three men inducted into the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame were from Brooks. Garnet Altwasser is the co-founder of Lakeside Farm Industries in Brooks. He was president and Chief...
Oct 30, 2018
Lethbridge mayor presses for federal and provincial help with the drug crisis
LETHBRIDGE - Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman says he received unanimous support Oct.19 from the 22 Alberta mid-sized city mayors for a resolution to send letters to the provincial and federal governme...
Oct 30, 2018
Pipelines and post-secondary: Alberta legislature resumes with fall sitting
EDMONTON – Politicians returned to work on Monday at the legislature. Government house leader Brian Mason says 12 bills are to be introduced during the six-week fall sitting. Mason says one will...
Oct 30, 2018
Suspect charged with killing Red Deer woman at work camp pleads not guilty
GRANDE PRAIRIE- The man charged following a double murder in northwest Alberta almost three years ago has pleaded not guilty to all six charges by reason of mental disorder. A judge-alone trial is und...
Oct 30, 2018
St. Albert's honouring four Humboldt Broncos players close to fundraising goal
ST. ALBERT - The City is close to hitting its goal of $500,000 to honour four Humboldt Broncos who had played for various hockey teams there. Officials with the St. Albert’s Humboldt Remembrance...
Oct 29, 2018