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First Nations University likely to close next month
Advocates of Regina school decry the government funding cuts that have followed financial scandals and mass dismissals
DAYBOOK / February 8
Will housing stay hot? / Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reports housing starts for January Budget time in Alberta / Newly appointed Finance Minister Ted Morton will be knee-deep in red ink
Ottawa examining funding of native university
Days after Saskatchewan withdrew funds, little hope First Nations University will get $7.3-million from federal government, minister says
Alberta files challenge to national watchdog plans
The Alberta government has moved on its pledge to challenge the federal government's plans to create a single national securities regulator, announcing yesterday it has filed a constitutional challenge with the Alberta Court of Appeal. Alberta announced its intention in December to launch a court challenge of the proposal, arguing the plan is an intrusion into provincial jurisdiction over securities regulation. Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton said in a release yesterday the province must defend Alberta's jurisdiction and rights in areas of provincial responsibility. The province said it has filed the specific reference questions with the Alberta court that it will use to test the constitutionality of the single regulator plan. Quebec has previously launched a similar challenge in the Quebec Court of Appeal.
Solid, not a turnaround
At mid-term, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is in trouble. The recession, a growing deficit and uncertainty around the province's economic future have thrown his leadership, and the very future of the Progressive Conservative party, into question. Yesterday's throne speech needed to deliver a compelling vision of his government's direction, but the effort, while laudable, came up short.
Stelmach promises to beat back deficit
In Throne Speech, Alberta Tories promise to be 'back in the black in three years'
Sask. cuts funding to First Nations University
EDUCATION REPORTER
RCMP take over Alta. reserve policing
The RCMP is now in charge of the Blood Tribe Police Force in Alberta after both the province and Ottawa stepped in to overrule the appointment of a suspended officer to the top job.
Art Gallery of Alberta
'We wanted to open with a bit of a splash'
Before the renovation, international galleries wouldn't dream of lending works to the Art Gallery of Alberta. Now, that's all changed
Fatal mauling of boy, 9, highlights wild-dog menace
Boy's aunt says more than 200 half-starved dogs roam north Saskatchewan reserve searching for food
Spending scandal engulfs native university
Funding cut looms over allegations of questionable expense claims and payouts to senior staff
CNQ venture to build advanced upgrader
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is betting against its oil patch peers with an investment in a new, climate-friendly refinery.
Alberta and Ontario, together
Ontario is, at best, located in the middle of the country. It is, from my standpoint, just another western province, rather full of its own self-importance, not unlike Alberta.
Alberta and Ontario, together
Letter writer Bob Wayte of Calgary expresses his frustration with "Easterners," Ontarians and Torontonians in response to a letter from Toronto that criticizes "Alberta's flagrant disregard for the environment." I sympathize with his frustration (The Attitude Of Easterners - Jan. 28).
Baby Isaiah to stay on life support - for now
Court fight postponed several weeks to find experts to evaluate boy's brain function
The attitude of Easterners
A letter writer from Toronto complains of the "flagrant disregard in Alberta for the environment" (Making A Meal Of The Carbon Tax - letters, Jan. 26).
The two faces of a life-or-death dilemma
The Globe's Lisa Priest examines how two families' stories are shaping a legal and moral battleground over who has the right to make life-or-death decisions. IN EDMONTON: Parents who want their brain-injured baby to live fight with a hospital who says they should let him go IN QUEBEC: A hospital ethics board clashes with a family that took their child off a feeding tube
YOUNG DRUNK DRIVERS ON THE RISE
Motorists charged with impaired driving during the recent holiday blitz in Ontario and Manitoba appear to be younger than in previous years, suggesting that measures to deter young people from drinking and driving are going unheeded, police say.
Out with the mild, in with the wild
After spate of unseasonably warm weather, Manitobans battered by 80-kilometre winds, swirling snow
