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Alberta providing $22M to increase pay for home care providers, $14M for continuing care
EDMONTON, AB - Up to $36 million in new funding will improve wages and create additional workforce capacity to allow more Albertans to receive care outside of hospitals and free up resources to treat ...
Sep 09, 2021

Minister Toews announces negotiation update with Alberta nurses
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Minister of Treasury Board and Finance Travis Toews, issued a statement Wednesday about the ongoing negotiations between Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the United Nurses of Alber...
Sep 08, 2021

South Zone sees 494 COVID cases, seven deaths over long weekend
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta Health Services has released its report on COVID-19 for Tuesday, covering statistics compiled over the past four days for the long weekend.In that time, 4,903 cases were confi...
Sep 07, 2021

City of Lethbridge to implement COVID testing program for employees
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A provincial masking mandate is back in effect across Alberta, due to rising COVID-19 case numbers.READ MORE: Mask mandate returning in Alberta Saturday, other new measures announcedR...
Sep 07, 2021

9/11 terrorist attacks, ensuing war propelled Canada’s military into 21st century
OTTAWA, ONT. - Andrew Leslie clearly remembers the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The 43-year-old brigadier-general charged with ensuring the army's ability to talk in battle and disrupt enemy communicati...
Sep 06, 2021

Twenty years later, Canadians reflect on their efforts after the 9/11 attacks
EDMONTON, AB. -- Calgary firefighter Mark Turik recalls standing at Ground Zero in January 2002, watching a group of police officers as they surrounded a body pulled from the rubble of the World Trade...
Sep 05, 2021

Mask mandate returning in Alberta Saturday, other new measures announced
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It's time to dust off your face masks - you will need them once again.The Government of Alberta announced a series of "temporary measures" Friday to curb the rising tide of COVID-19 c...
Sep 03, 2021

Doctors frustrated with 'selfishness' of unvaccinated people, protesters
Some doctors and nurses are frustrated with large groups of anti-vaccination protesters outside hospitals in cities across the country and say limited health-care resources are being used to save the ...
Sep 03, 2021

Kenney answers COVID questions on Facebook livestream
EDMONTON, AB. -- After weeks of questions regarding his whereabouts, Premier Jason Kenney answered selected questions from Albertans on a Facebook livestream.The premier was last seen in public on Aug...
Sep 02, 2021

ALERT estimates $300M worth of drugs confiscated at Alberta "superlab"
CALGARY, AB - ALERT is updating Albertans on a significant drug bust from earlier this summer.On July 7, 2021, officers conducted 13 search warrants at homes and businesses in the Calgary and Edmonton...
Sep 01, 2021