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Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation. Poilievre is to deliver a keynote speech for a stronger Alberta within a United Canada. Earlier in the day, he's scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for Conservatives for Canada, a group of...
Alberta business leaders have signed on to an open letter from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce warning of the dire economic consequences if the province were to separate from Canada. "We must remain at the table and prioritize relationships, opportunities and stability that have helped make this province and this country prosperous," reads the letter released Tuesday along with an...
EDMONTON -- Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation.
EDMONTON -- Elections Alberta said Monday it has received 11 times more requests for mail-in ballots and has hired thousands more workers for the upcoming vote on separation than it did in the last provincial election.
Jasmeet Raina leaned on comedy days after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when students at school began circulating rumours that his uncle was Osama bin Laden.
Jasmeet Raina leaned on comedy days after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when students at school began circulating rumours that his uncle was Osama bin Laden.
Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago. "It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm just tired of it," said Skip Macaulay, a rally attendee who lives in...
EDMONTON -- Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago.
Alberta independence boosters are planning to rally outside the legislature today ahead of festivities marking the province's 121st birthday. Seven weeks away from the province's separation referendum, the Alberta Prosperity Project says all Albertans are welcome at its "gathering for a province in peril." The group filed a petition earlier this year pushing for a referendum question asking if Alberta...
EDMONTON -- Alberta independence boosters are planning to rally outside the legislature today ahead of festivities marking the province's 121st birthday.
EDMONTON -- A man leading a movement against artificial intelligence data centres in Alberta says provincial officials can expect to get an earful at an upcoming town hall.
A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta's government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters.
Sarah Batchelor says it started a few weeks ago when a large blue flag bearing Alberta's shield of arms appeared on her neighbour's window in Airdrie, a city north of Calgary. The 49-year-old music teacher, who has lived in the province for most of her life, says she would not have been bothered if her neighbour put it up a...
Alberta's secession movement is unlike other separatist efforts in democratic countries across the world, experts say. Those outside of Canada, including ones that led to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and the 2017 vote on whether the distinct people of Catalonia should leave Spain, all have similar characteristics. "Significant secession movements starts with nationhood, the idea that members of...
EDMONTON -- Three political scientists say Indigenous treaty rights represent a significant legal hurdle for separatists in Alberta.
An effort to stop Alberta from leaving Canada launched in Edmonton today. Thomas Lukaszuk, Alberta's former deputy premier, says the Forever Canadian campaign will see him and hundreds of volunteers in a "Unity Bus" travelling the province to encourage Albertans to vote for staying in Canada in an October referendum.
EDMONTON -- An effort to stop Alberta from leaving Canada launched in Edmonton today.
EDMONTON -- An Edmonton city councillor says he wants to ingrain the love Albertans have for Canada in a red-and-white street sign.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta Medical Association says another patient has died while waiting for care at a hospital, and the province's health agency says it is investigating.
EDMONTON -- A report says foreign actors are increasingly generating articles, podcasts and social media posts riddled with disinformation about Alberta's separatist movement.
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.
