Provincial Politics

Province assures rural municipalities will receive full police funding despite Opposition claims

Alberta's United Conservative government is denying any notion that rural municipalities will see cuts to their police funding of up to 70 per cent.Currently, policing services are covered in full by ...

Oct 10, 2019 Doug Schweitzer (rdnewsNOW file photo)

Province calls on Ottawa to reverse military health funding change

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to reverse a decision that will see provinces pick up more of the cost of treating members of the military for med...

Oct 09, 2019 Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro

Alberta fires board of real estate regulator, cites paralyzing dysfunction

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is moving to fire the entire board that regulates the provincial real-estate industry on the grounds it is hopelessly dysfunctional and wracked by infighting.Service ...

Oct 09, 2019

Alberta's "energy war room" launching soon

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room is now on a legal footing and will soon be up and running.Energy Minister Sonya Savage told the legislature the war room is now incorporated and will be formally t...

Oct 09, 2019 (Photo: The Canadian Press)

Kenney, Notley trade barbs on economy, budget as legislature resumes

EDMONTON - Alberta politicians began sharpening their attack lines for the upcoming budget as the fall sitting of the legislature resumed today.NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley told Premier Jason K...

Oct 08, 2019

RDC, students preparing for possible lifting of tuition freeze

Alberta post-secondary students are bracing for a possible lifting of the current tuition freeze when the provincial budget is handed down on Oct. 24.The MacKinnon Report on Alberta's Finances release...

Oct 07, 2019

Provincial government to introduce bills on farm safety, greenhouse gas emissions

EDMONTON - Alberta's government house leader says new rules will be introduced this fall on farm safety and reducing large-scale greenhouse gas emissions.Jason Nixon says the bills will be among 17 pi...

Oct 07, 2019

UCP Government extending NDP exemption for farm trucks, Dreeshen says

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen offered some brief comments Thursday while in Lethbridge, on the province's decision to review regulations that relax the requirements f...

Oct 04, 2019

Auditor General finds $2.3 Million misused by Alberta Energy Regulator

EDMONTON - In a scandal that has left taxpayers about $2.3 million out of pocket, a provincial government investigation has concluded the former head of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) grossly mism...

Oct 04, 2019

Alberta separatist movement holding more meetings in Red Deer

With the federal election looming on October 21, a movement to build support for Alberta's separation from Canada is making its second stop in Red Deer this month.Wexit Alberta, described as a volunta...

Oct 03, 2019