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Who killed Amber Tuccaro? A clue on tape offers her loved ones both pain and hope for answers
Alberta policing plan gets pushback, support from municipal leaders
Alberta Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services Mike Ellis answers media questions as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on at an availability in Calgary on August 25, 2023. Alberta’s government is getting pushback from some municipal leaders and support from others over its plan to build the sheriffs into a second provincial police service. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley
Alberta becomes first province to help fund construction of private schools
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks to reporters in Halifax on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Smith's plan to spend billions of dollars to fast-track school building across the province will come alongside a new construction funding program for private schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Delay in sentencing for three ringleaders convicted of mischief at Coutts blockade
Alex Van Herk arrives at the courthouse in Lethbridge, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The sentencing for three men convicted of helping lead and coordinate the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 has been delayed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta Energy Regulator to hold Rocky Mountain coal hearings despite legal challenge
A sign opposing coal development in the eastern slopes of the Livingston range south west of Longview, Alta., Wednesday, June 16, 2021.Alberta's energy regulator says it will go ahead with hearings on coal exploration in the Rocky Mountains despite concerns about the legality of the applications from the province's top court. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta Insider: Smith’s plan to amend province’s Bill of Rights
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference in Edmonton, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Smith says she plans to add the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical procedure to the Alberta Bill of Rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Who killed Amber Tuccaro? A clue on tape offers her loved ones both pain and hope for answers
Alberta policing plan gets pushback, support from municipal leaders
Alberta Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services Mike Ellis answers media questions as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on at an availability in Calgary on August 25, 2023. Alberta’s government is getting pushback from some municipal leaders and support from others over its plan to build the sheriffs into a second provincial police service. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley
Alberta becomes first province to help fund construction of private schools
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks to reporters in Halifax on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Smith's plan to spend billions of dollars to fast-track school building across the province will come alongside a new construction funding program for private schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Delay in sentencing for three ringleaders convicted of mischief at Coutts blockade
Alex Van Herk arrives at the courthouse in Lethbridge, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The sentencing for three men convicted of helping lead and coordinate the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 has been delayed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta Energy Regulator to hold Rocky Mountain coal hearings despite legal challenge
A sign opposing coal development in the eastern slopes of the Livingston range south west of Longview, Alta., Wednesday, June 16, 2021.Alberta's energy regulator says it will go ahead with hearings on coal exploration in the Rocky Mountains despite concerns about the legality of the applications from the province's top court. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta Insider: Smith’s plan to amend province’s Bill of Rights
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference in Edmonton, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Smith says she plans to add the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical procedure to the Alberta Bill of Rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
New numbers show Alberta is the lowest in Canada on per capita spending on inmates
New data shows Alberta spends the lowest amount of money per inmate in Canada – a number the province says is value for money but critics label shortsighted and worrisome.The Edmonton Remand Centre is shown on Saturday, April 27, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ben Lemphers
Alberta towns, villages and cities push for tabulator option in local votes
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks during a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Alberta municipal leaders are calling for the provincial government to reverse its plan to ban on vote counting machines, saying itÕs more costly and time consuming to count by hand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.
Alberta man accused in sex assaults and kidnappings fit to stand trial after stroke
The Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary on March 11, 2019. A bail hearing for Richard Robert Mantha, who is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women in Calgary, has been adjourned until next month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Years after she saved my life, I finally met my genetic twin
Housing starts up in six largest cities but construction still not closing supply gap
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says construction of new homes in Canada's six largest cities rose four per cent year-over-year in the first half of 2024, but housing start levels were still not enough to meet growing demand. New home construction is seen in the Barrhaven neighbourhood of Ottawa on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Calgary builders lure investor buyers
Real estate investor Matthew Tully poses for a portrait at the Les Jardins townhouse development in SE Calgary, Alta on Sep 23, 2024. “We realized Quarry Park is a real gem,” he says about the neighbourhood where Les Jardins is located. “There’s so much business development there. The Green Line was supposed to come through, but it still has great access to the bus network, so it’s a really good location.” Gavin John/The Globe and Mail
Report says ‘disproportionate’ use of force against Indigenous and Black Calgarians
Calgary Police Service car is shown in Calgary, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. An analysis of race-based data shows Calgary Police used a disproportionate amount of force against Indigenous and Black individuals in the city last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta won’t rule out using public money to clean up unreclaimed oil and gas sites
Alberta's energy minister is promising strong action to clean up the province's growing backlog of unreclaimed oil and gas sites. A de-commissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Paleontologists unearth giant skull of Pachyrhinosaurus in northern Alberta
Paleontologists prepare a large dinosaur skull for excavation in northern Alberta on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. The thick and more-than-a-metre-long skull of a herbivorous dinosaur that roamed northern Alberta about 17 million years ago and is known for big, bony bumps on its face was to be removed from a dense bone bed on Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum *MANDATORY CREDIT *
Calgary officers punched, Tasered man loitering at hotel before he died: police watchdog
A police vehicle at Calgary Police Service headquarters is shown on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Investigators with Alberta's police watchdog are looking into the facts around the death of a man who died while interacting with Calgary police. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Canada’s 2024 wildfire season on track to be second largest in last two decades
Canada's wildfire season is on track to be second largest of this century as a measure of area burned, trailing only last year's record-breaking season.The burned-out Esso gas station in Jasper, Alta. is shown on Friday July 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Statistics Canada says population growth slowed slightly in last quarter of the year
Statistics Canada says the population of the country reached an estimated 41,288,599 on July 1. People walk in an overhead pedestrian crossing in Toronto on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Indigenous equity ownership saw momentum in 2024, but still more work to do
Chief Sharleen Gale of Fort Nelson Nation and chair of the First Nations Major Projects Coalition pose for a portrait June 7, 2023 in Ottawa. Dave Chan/The Globe and Mail
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Saskatchewan’s upcoming election will be strange – and entirely on trend
Kelly Cryderman
Alberta to amend provincial Bill of Rights to allow people to opt out of vaccines
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference in Edmonton, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Smith says she plans to add the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical procedure to the Alberta Bill of Rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Arson investigation under way after tipi fire at Alberta RCMP detachment
An arson investigation is underway after flames tore through a commemorative teepee gifted to an Alberta RCMP detachment by a local First Nation. The RCMP logo is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Premier Danielle Smith announces plan to change Alberta Bill of Rights
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to announce her government's plan to help K-12 classrooms being squeezed by an influx of new families. Smith speaks with reporters before a meeting in Halifax, Monday, July 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Alberta MLA who compared trans youth to feces hasn’t rebuilt trust after meeting, LGBTQ advocates say
The Alberta Legislature building pictured before Jason Kenney, Alberta's premier-designate and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP), meets the media in front of it in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Candace Elliott