Alberta

Alberta curriculum review urges focus on basic learning, standardized tests

CALGARY - Alberta's education minister is endorsing a panel report that recommends school children learn all views about climate change along with the value of the province's oil and gas sector.Adrian...

Jan 29, 2020 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange and Curriculum Advisory Panel Member Dr. Glenn Feltham with students from St. Marguerite School in Calgary

Over $30K worth of drugs seized in Medicine Hat by ALERT

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Three people from Medicine Hat have been arrested and face drug charges after more than $30,000 worth of drugs were seized by an ALERT investigation in Medicine Hat.The two-month in...

Jan 29, 2020 Drugs seized (photo courtesy of ALERT)

Alberta Canola farmers eligible for 2019 tax credit

EDMONTON -- The Alberta Canola Producers Commission has announced that provincial growers who don't request a refund of their check off will qualify for a tax credit for the 2019 tax year. The Scienti...

Jan 27, 2020 Canola field - LNN

Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation launches

EDMONTON, AB - A new first-of-its-kind Crown Corporation aims to help Indigenous groups in Alberta become the owners of resource projects.The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) will a...

Jan 27, 2020 The first meeting of the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation. (Supplied by Government of Alberta)

Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay announces Tory leadership bid

STELLARTON, N.S. - Former federal cabinet minister Peter MacKay says he will run for the leadership of the federal Conservative party.MacKay made the announcement at the Museum of Industry in Stellart...

Jan 25, 2020 Peter MacKay - The Canadian Press

Alberta landowners urge farmers to cut power to wells with unpaid debts

EDMONTON -- A group of Alberta landowners is asking farmers and ranchers to fight back against unpaid debts and unreclaimed oil and gas wells by closing valves and cutting power to energy company site...

Jan 24, 2020 Prairie Pump Jack -- The Canadian Press

Alberta privacy commissioner opens investigation into ID scans at liquor stores

EDMONTON -- Alberta's privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into a liquor retailer's decision to test ID-scanning technology at its stores.Edmonton-based Alcanna Ltd., which runs Liquor Dep...

Jan 23, 2020 Liquor store - The Canadian Press

Province hosting "telephone town hall" on Jan. 28 to get input on 2020 budget

LETHBRIDGE, AB - You can let the Government of Alberta know what their next provincial budget should look like.Finance Minister Travis Toews will be hosting two telephone town halls in the final week ...

Jan 23, 2020 Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews. (Supplied by The Canadian Press)

Province sets up working group and looks at ID-scanning to combat liquor thefts

EDMONTON -- The province has set-up a working group to protect Albertans by combating the growing public safety threat posed by liquor store robberies and thefts.Police in Edmonton responded to 9,600 ...

Jan 20, 2020 James Burns, CEO of Alcanna, Minister Doug Schweitzer, MLA Brad Rutherford, and Cst. Robyn Wilson, EPS, announce action to fight robberies and thefts at liquor stores

Province announces "outcomes-based" funding model for post-secondary education

CALGARY, AB - The way that Alberta's colleges, universities, and other post-secondary institutions are funded is about to change.Minister of Advanced Education Demetrios Nicolaides declared Monday tha...

Jan 20, 2020 Minister of Advanced Education Demetrios Nicolaides. (Supplied by Government of Alberta)