Alberta

AHS warning parents about dangers of vaping

Medicine Hat - A recent Health Canada survey showed that 23 per cent of students in grades 7 to 12 have tried an electronic cigarette.Although many say that vaping is less dangerous than cigarettes, e...

Jun 13, 2019 Vaping

Federal carbon tax coming to Alberta in January: environment minister

OTTAWA, ON - Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna saysa federal carbon tax will be imposed on Alberta starting Jan. 1. McKenna says she has written the province to inform it of the decision....

Andrew Snook Jun 13, 2019

AHS using technology to expand access to health care information

CALGARY - Alberta Health Services is expanding its options for people trying to access health care information in the province and they're using technology to do it.AHS has announced two new projects ...

Jun 13, 2019

Committee of MPs decides against calling for school-bus seatbelts

OTTAWA - A committee of MPs who probed bus-passenger safety in Canada has decided not to call for seatbelts to be installed in Canadian school buses, urging further study instead.The House of Commons ...

Jun 13, 2019 Bronco bus crash site -- The Canadian Press

Alberta eyes legislation if necessary to override public sector wage talks

EDMONTON -- Alberta's finance minister says the government will pass legislation if necessary to override collective bargaining agreements with unions and delay contractually mandated wage talks. The ...

Jun 12, 2019 Alberta Legislature - LethbridgeNesNOW.com

Alberta promises to fund fall school enrolment growth

EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is fully funding new students going into grade school classrooms this fall.Finance Minister Travis Toews made the announcement today in response to Opposition questi...

Jun 10, 2019 Alberta Legislature -- LethbridgeNewsNOW

OAS looks to investigate Canada as result of “Genocide” term used in MMIWG inquiry report

OTTAWA - The world has a lesson to learn from Canada in the release of findings from a federally funded commission on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sai...

Olivia Thorington Jun 09, 2019 MMIWG gathering -- The Canadian Press

Filibustered minimum wage cut bill passes second reading

EDMONTON - The marathon debate over the Kenney government's plan to cut the minimum wage for young people and change rules on calculating overtime pay is over, at least for now.The legislature has pas...

Jun 08, 2019 Alberta Legislature - LethbridgeNewsNOW

Alberta gives update on Energy War Room

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta is ready to fight back.That is the message Premier Jason Kenney is sending to those who have attacked the oil and gas industry, as he provided more information about the pro...

Jun 07, 2019 Pump Jack

Kenney promises constitutional challenge if Bill C-48 is passed

EDMONTON -- Premier Jason Kenney says he is deeply disappointed the Senate has voted not to kill the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic in the environmentally sensitive waters off nor...

Jun 07, 2019 Jason Kenney - LethbridgeNewsNOW.com