A central Alberta city has taken another step to secure warming shelters for vulnerable individuals living in tents in an open field, but its mayor says they need some help.Up to 60 people have been sleeping in a homeless camp in Wetaskiwin, southeast of Edmonton, since August after the city closed its only overnight shelter. (Jason…
Dozens of school divisions in Alberta’s smaller cities and rural area are wrestling with how to handle provincial pressure to adopt a proof of vaccination mandate for staff.St. Paul Education superintendent Glen Brodziak says the public debate over mandating staff proof of vaccination has been angry and difficult to deal with. (CBC)Dozens of the province’s…
Quebec is slated to lose one seat in the next redrawing of federal ridings in Canada, seeing its 78 seats reduced to 77 — the first time since 1966 that a province has lost a seat when the electoral map is reconfigured.A redrawing of federal ridings will see Canadians send 342 parliamentarians — rather than…
A human rights commission has ordered the Alberta Pipe Trade College to pay $35,000 to a former instructor who was fired because she was pregnant.A human rights commission has ordered the Alberta Pipe Trade College to pay $35,000 to a former instructor who was fired because she was pregnant. (The Canadian Press)A human rights commission…
A new Alberta Health outbreak list, posted online Wednesday afternoon, details the impact of the pandemic’s fourth wave in classrooms, as the province resumes public reporting of school outbreaks.A masked student disembarks her bus and heads off to her first day of school in Edmonton. (Dave Bajer/CBC)More than 50 Alberta schools are contending with active COVID-19 outbreaks,…
Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre has launched an ad campaign in Times Square to promote the country’s oil and gas industry to the United States. Alberta’s energy ‘war room’ has started an ad campaign that includes billboards in Times Square in New York City. (Submitted by the Canadian Energy Centre)Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre has launched an ad campaign in…
Details about how the finding will roll out are expected to be announced in the coming weeks The government of Alberta is…
Legal and economic scholars say there’s virtually no chance Alberta’s planned referendum on equalization will result in changes to Canada’s constitution.Premier Jason Kenney and Justice Minister Kaycee Madu announced Monday that the Alberta government will move toward a provincial referendum on equalization. (Jason Franson/Canadian Press)Legal and economic experts say there’s virtually no chance Alberta’s planned…
Alberta cabinet minister Leela Aheer says Premier Jason Kenney should apologize to Albertans after photos circulated of a dinner he held with three ministers on the patio of a government building. Leela Aheer, Alberta’s minister of culture, multiculturalism and status of women, says the premier should apologize to Albertans for having a rooftop meal with ministers during…
The office of Alberta’s information commissioner says it has not determined whether the province’s controversial energy “war room” is subject to freedom of information legislation, despite the United Conservative government’s insistence the war room’s structure allows it to evade such scrutiny.Information commissioner Jill Clayton’s office says it has not tested the government’s claim that its…