Category Archives: Alberta

Province partially backstopping new $2 billion dollar bitumen upgrader
CALGARY – The Alberta government is providing a $440 million loan guarantee to help a Calgary-based company build a new bitumen upgrader east of Edmonton. Value Creation Incorporated says itR...
Jan 22, 2019

M.D. of Taber Regional Fire Service contain early morning fire at shop in Barnwell
BARNWELL - The M.D. of Taber Regional Fire Service had an early start to their morning on Tuesday, Jan. 22. Around 4:10 a.m. Station 4 and Station 7 responded to a structure fire near 229 8th Avenue W...
Jan 22, 2019

United Conservatives leader Jason Kenney disputes expense allegations while MP
EDMONTON - Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and his staff are firing back at a lawyer who is questioning Kenney’s residential expense claims from his time as a cabinet minister in...
Jan 22, 2019

Province purchases Indigenous history books for classrooms
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government will be providing every junior high and high school in Alberta with copies of the Canadian Geographic Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. Richard Feehan, Minis...
Jan 19, 2019

Province to welcome new university in February
CALGARY, AB - The Alberta College of Arts and Design will officially become the province's newest university next month. The college will be known as the Alberta University of the Arts starting on Feb...
Jan 19, 2019

Woman charged with animal cruelty in Milk River found in Manitoba
STONEWALL, MANITOBA – A 59-year-old woman wanted in Alberta and Saskatchewan in animal neglect and cruelty charges, has been arrested in Manitoba. RCMP confirm that April Dawn Irving was arreste...
Jan 18, 2019

Information needed on whereabouts of Crowsnest Pass man
CROWSNEST PASS — RCMP need the public’s help locating a missing man. 58-year old Stuart David Duff was last seen on Jan. 6, 2019 in the Crowsnest Pass and it’s believed he might have...
Jan 18, 2019

Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night
CALGARY — Southern Albertans are expected to get some of the best views in the country Sunday night, (Jan 20), of a total lunar eclipse. That’s according to Neel Roberts, a member of the R...
Jan 18, 2019

Alberta spending millions on ads to promote Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion
EDMONTON — The Alberta government is spending $23.4 million to convince Canadians why a major oil pipeline project is needed. The marketing campaign, Keep Canada Working, is aimed at getting peo...
Jan 18, 2019

Study finds more than half of food produced in Canada wasted
TORONTO — More than half the food produced in Canada is wasted and the average kitchen tosses out hundreds of dollars worth of edibles every year, says a study researchers are calling the first ...
Jan 17, 2019