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Alberta's premier says she welcomes diverse opinions in her caucus after a legislature member of her United Conservative Party opined a referendum on separation is good for the province. Danielle Smith reiterated on her provincewide radio show Saturday her government supports a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada despite the views Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan expressed a day before...
EDMONTON -- Alberta's premier says she welcomes diverse opinions in her caucus after a legislature member of her United Conservative Party opined a referendum on separation is good for the province.
EDMONTON -- A hockey-loving town in southern Alberta that lost its only two ice rinks in a Zamboni explosion says it will cost millions to rebuild.
Alberta's chambers of commerce say talk of the province potentially quitting Confederation is bad for business, with one saying it's time Premier Danielle Smith's government move on from blaming former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The Alberta Chambers of Commerce says a recent survey of members and investors suggested more than half of participants say the provincial separation issue is affecting...
EDMONTON -- Alberta's chambers of commerce say talk of the province potentially quitting Confederation is bad for business, with one saying it's time Premier Danielle Smith's government move on from blaming former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
EDMONTON -- Jo-Anne Henry says her mother never described herself as a rebel.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's 9,000 unionized provincial employees are going back to the office full time starting this weekend, but not without a brown bag protest.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it is closing seven of its research operations as part of the federal government's efforts to cut the size of the public service. The federal department said research centres in Guelph, Ont., Quebec City and Lacombe, Alta., as well as four satellite research farms across Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are closing.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it is closing seven of its research operations as part of the federal government's efforts to cut the size of the public service.
A political scientist says U.S. President Donald Trump's interest in transforming Venezuela's oil-rich sector is a reminder for Canada's oil and gas industry to not panic and stay competitive. Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment with the think-tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says Canada has always competed with other oil-rich countries, and Trump's recent claims his country will "run"...
Edmonton -- A political scientist says U.S. President Donald Trump's interest in transforming Venezuela's oil-rich sector is a reminder for Canada's oil and gas industry to not panic and stay competitive.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's primary care minister and its first permanent chief medical officer of health since the last one was fired say they're looking forward to working together as the province enters a new era.
EDMONTON -- The bodies that govern hockey and table tennis in Canada say their events in Alberta are going ahead despite the province's law banning transgender athletes from female amateur sports.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is about to take the next logical step in artificial intelligence -- using it to draft a proposed law.
The Alberta government is about to take the next logical step in artificial intelligence -- using it to draft a proposed law. Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally says the plan is to use AI to develop and introduce the Alberta Whisky Act when the house sits next spring. "AI is a tool that is being leveraged across many sectors in...
EDMONTON -- The upcoming holiday gatherings with relatives may feel ripe for conflicts over politics, relationships, and social issues, but an online survey suggests a majority of Canadians still feel it's important to spend time with loved ones.
EDMONTON -- The union representing 16,000 hospital workers says it reached a tentative agreement with Alberta's health authority a minute before its members hit the picket lines Saturday morning.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's minister of arts, culture and Status of Women has apologized for using an expletive in a voice message left for a constituent.
A group representing more than a dozen Manitoba municipalities says RCMP are investigating a gruesome Halloween display the group believes was meant to intimidate local politicians.
EDMONTON -- Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy premier of Alberta who has circulated a petition to make it official policy for the province to stay in Canada, says it has just over 456,000 signatures.
EDMONTON -- As legislation looms ordering striking Alberta teachers back to work, Jennifer Black is bittersweet about returning to class to teach English to dozens of anxious Grade 12 students while feeling hopeless herself.
EDMONTON -- The union representing Alberta teachers in a provincewide strike say they're talking to lawyers to determine next steps as legislation looms ordering them back to work.
EDMONTON -- A labour relations professor is criticizing the Alberta government's threat to legislate striking teachers back to work as about 750,000 students enter a third week of cancelled classes on Monday.
EDMONTON -- An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent."
Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP says Premier Scott Moe's government needs to step up, snap on some rubber gloves and clean up the sewage fouling the air and land at a building forcibly abandoned by a cult.
EDMONTON -- The head of the Alberta Teachers' Association says no talks are scheduled and 51,000 teachers are set to hit picket lines Monday in a provincewide strike.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Imperial Oil's "very disappointing" plan to lay off roughly 20 per cent of its workforce by 2027 reinforces the need to build more pipelines.
Sewage water continues to seep into a large puddle near the entrance of a purple-coloured school-turned-compound that housed members of a cult in the southwest Saskatchewan village of Richmound for the last two years.
EDMONTON -- Dozens of students played hooky from school Monday to rally for teachers at Alberta's legislature as a provincewide strike deadline nears.
EDMONTON -- A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers - with each side accusing the other of lying -- is set to turn into an all-out advertising war.
Ripple effects of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the United States continue to be felt across Canada. The University of Alberta says it has temporarily put a law professor on non-disciplinary leave, as it looks into online comments and threats surrounding comments on the shooting of Kirk earlier this month. The university in Edmonton says in a...
EDMONTON -- The ripple effects of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's killing continued to be felt across Canada as an Alberta university confirmed it was facing threats, and a major TV network rejigged its programming after the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
EDMONTON -- A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers - with each side accusing the other of lying -- is set to turn into an all-out advertising war.
EDMONTON -- As the clock ticks toward a potential provincewide strike by Alberta's teachers, parents say classroom overcrowding is having a disastrous domino effect on learning with tutors being hired to fill in the gaps.
EDMONTON -- The union representing Alberta's 51,000 teachers says they're planning to walk off the job starting Oct. 6.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's wasteful purchase of children's pain and fever medicine three years ago helped inform the province's decision to charge some people $100 for a COVID-19 vaccine shot this fall, Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre secured a seat in the House of Commons late Monday with a crushing byelection win in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and 213 others vying for a seat in the House of Commons will be in the spotlight Monday, as voters in a rural Alberta riding head to the polls. Two political science professors say Poilievre is expected to handily win the byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, a sprawling eastern Alberta riding stretching from Edmonton to Calgary...
EDMONTON -- Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and 213 others vying for a seat in the House of Commons will be in the spotlight Monday, as voters in a rural Alberta riding head to the polls.
Parissa Ahmadi says the least worst thing that could happen if she doesn't make it to Saskatchewan this summer, and is deported to Afghanistan, is that she's jailed and tortured.
Advance polls in a historic federal byelection for Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot open today. For the first time ever, Elections Canada says voters must fill out a blank ballot. The agency lists a record 214 candidates running in the rural riding, with voting day on Aug. 18. The majority are part of the Longest Ballot Committee, a protest group calling for...
CAMROSE -- Advance polls in a historic federal byelection for Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot open today.
Alberta resident Shamaila Akram says she can handle the increase in racial slurs and derogatory comments being thrown at her, but she worries about her newcomer and immigrant clients. As debates unfold over Canada's immigration system, those who provide help to newcomers in Alberta say there has been an uptick of hostility toward immigrants. "I hear from people in my...
EDMONTON -- Alberta resident Shamaila Akram says she can handle the increase in racial slurs and derogatory comments being thrown at her, but she worries about her newcomer and immigrant clients.
The upcoming federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot has Jennifer Fossen in unknown territory. Fossen is the president of the Camrose & District Chamber of Commerce. In the April federal election, it held a candidate forum. Only one nominee showed up to speak to a half empty room. Three months later, Fossen is hosting another candidate forum, this time in a...
CAMROSE -- The upcoming federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot has Jennifer Fossen in unknown territory.
EDMONTON -- An advocacy-protest group that broke its own record last week for putting the most candidates on an election ballot is now up to 132 for the federal Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in Alberta.
EDMONTON -- An Independent candidate running in a rural Alberta byelection says she has stopped door-knocking because of death threats.
Protests during the upcoming G7 leaders summit in Kananaskis, Alta., may be starkly different than demonstrations happening this week against immigration crackdowns in the United States. A University of Toronto research group that has been monitoring the meetings of world leaders since 1998 says its analysis shows Canadian protests are more peaceful and smaller. But similar to the recent demonstrations...
EDMONTON -- Protests during the upcoming G7 leaders summit in Kananaskis, Alta., may be starkly different than demonstrations happening this week against immigration crackdowns in the United States.
EDMONTON -- Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year.
Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog. Kathleen Sokvitne has lived on the street in High River, Alta., about 60 kilometres south of Calgary, for 30 years. She says those flags show that not all Albertans...
EDMONTON -- Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog.
America's 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st.
EDMONTON -- A judge is calling for a public inquiry into an Edmonton inmate's death, saying it's the only way to get to the bottom of three guards' actions that day amid concerns they were running a prison "fight club."
EDMONTON -- Jordon Kosikowie has been thinking a lot about what would happen if Alberta joined the United States.
EDMONTON -- Hundreds of striking school support workers marched through the streets of downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on budget day and stood outside, waving signs, blowing horns and demanding higher wages.
Maverick, Radar and White Spirit mostly gallop in the confines of the Rocky Mountain foothills, but they are known among equine enthusiasts around the world.
Allison Hadley says she has been having a hard time focusing on training for an upcoming cross-country skiing competition. If an Alberta bill restricting transgender women in sports is passed, she fears she won't be able to register for the event she's participated in for years. "I just feel empty," Hadley, 44, said in a phone interview from Edmonton.