Alberta

The following news story contains content some readers may find disturbing or triggering. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is investigating the possibility of additional victims after arresting a youth worker with sexual offenses involving children. ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit arrested the 28-year-old suspect on February 2, with help from the Edmonton […]

Thirty-four years have passed since the last time an all-rookie team won the Canadian women’s curling championship. So 22-year-old Skylar Ackerman and her unbeaten team of Saskatchewan first-timers might be due. In front of plenty of boisterous green-clad friends, families and supporters at Calgary’s WinSport Event Centre on Sunday afternoon, the young team from Saskatoon’s Nutana Curling […]

Ottawa is considering alterations to its proposed clean-electricity regulations after consultations with industry, opening the door to more flexibility for individual power generators. “We can still get to the same aim,” said Oliver Anderson, a spokesman with Environment and Climate Change Canada. The proposed changes, released Friday, would change several provisions that industry and provincial […]

Premier Danielle Smith has announced a raft of changes affecting transgender Albertans, including requiring parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school. Smith says students 16 and 17 would not need consent, but their parents must be notified. She announced the changes Wednesday in a video […]

In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there’s a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried. The Marmot Creek well in Kananaskis Country has been there for generations, says the University of Saskatchewan water scientist. It’s one of the few groundwater monitoring wells that Alberta […]

Heavy snow earlier in the week is expected to turn into freezing rain today in parts of BC’s Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon. Environment Canada says the freezing rain could last into the afternoon and potentially later in some areas. Between 10 and 20 centimetres of snow is forecast on Vancouver Island, […]

The Canada Energy Regulator will hear arguments Friday from the company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on its request for a pipeline variance. The Trans Mountain pipeline is Canada’s only oil pipeline to the west coast, and its expansion will boost the pipeline’s capacity to 890,000 barrels per day from 300,000 bpd currently. The […]

Update: Tuesday, January 9th, 2023. 10:30 a.m. A spokesperson for the RCMP is confirming a person has been charged in relation to the December 29 accident which sent six-year-old Kaia Intensive Care. RCMP say charges may be upgraded if Kaia’s condition changes. — Donations are pouring in for a child seriously injured in an accident […]

As one province pauses the gas tax to provide savings at the pumps, another is bringing it back.  The Manitoba government says that starting Monday, motorists won’t have to pay 14 cents per litre in fuel tax for the next six months. The province has said it introduced the measure to help motorists with inflation. […]

Well before Alberta Premier Danielle Smith started talking about the Sovereignty Act, Ottawa was already taking steps to address the province’s concerns about being forced to prematurely shut down its natural gas power plants, says federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. Smith invoked the new legislation earlier this week in what she herself has acknowledged was […]