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Amid economic uncertainty in Canada due in part to U.S. tariffs, the Ontario government has reached agreements with Saskatchewan, Alberta and Prince Edward Island, with the aim of taking steps to reduce trade barriers among the provinces. Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed separate memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, …
Read More »Alberta judge calls for changes after man kills wife days after leaving mental health centre
WARNING: This story contains discussions of suicide. An Alberta judge is making 14 recommendations for RCMP and the provincial government after scrutinizing the case of a young mother who was killed by her husband, less than two weeks after he was discharged from a mental health centre. Brett Fenton stabbed and strangled …
Read More »Unlike in 2002, Alberta won’t rely on federal prisons to free up space in Calgary jails for G7
Federal prisons won’t be used to house inmates displaced by the G7 summit in Alberta in June. The province says it doesn’t plan to manage its prison populations the same way it did the last time world leaders met in Kananaskis, Alta. In 2002, the Calgary Correctional Centre was cleared …
Read More »‘Shock’ and ‘panic’ as new daycare operators in Alberta told they won’t get funding after all
Albertans in the process of setting up new child-care facilities say they’ve had the rug pulled out from under them as the Alberta government abruptly informed them last week they would not qualify for grants under the federal-provincial child-care agreement. “I am devastated,” said Arshdeep Kaur, who is in the process …
Read More »Police search for Alberta woman wrongfully released from a jail on fake papers
An Alberta woman is on the lam after Crown prosecutors say she was wrongfully released from an Edmonton-area jail last month with allegedly fake release papers. Mackenzie Dawn Hardy, 24, is charged with several offences, including possession of stolen property, impaired driving, flight from police and driving without insurance or …
Read More »Is Alberta headed towards a separation vote?
Front Burner Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party just passed a bill that slashes the number of signatures needed to trigger a constitutional referendum. Could this make a separation referendum likely? CBC News · Posted: May 20, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago Alberta Premier Danielle …
Read More »Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta report progress with contaminated dock site
Government funding has been secured for a temporary dock in a northern Alberta community that made headlines last year after Indigenous leaders raised concerns about contamination at a federally owned dock site. Last fall, three Indigenous groups accused the federal government of keeping them in the dark about chemical contamination at …
Read More »Vietnamese community in Alberta marks 50 years since fall of Saigon
Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat. Officers in Vietnam remind him of the communist soldiers who once stormed and captured Saigon, the former South Vietnam capital now called Ho Chi Minh City. The fall …
Read More »Alberta separatists getting organized — a unity challenge for Canada and Danielle Smith’s party
You don’t need to be a Preston-Manning-like soothsayer to imagine western separatist sentiment ticks upward if the Liberals win re-election. You just need to remember 2019 and the Wexit movement. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals narrowly won a second term that fall, and disgruntled Albertans and Saskatchewanians self-branded a separatist movement after the …
Read More »Alberta pioneered industrial carbon pricing. Now, Poilievre says he’d kill the federal mandate for it
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith welcomed a promise from the Conservative Party of Canada on Monday to eliminate the federal backstop on industrial carbon pricing, if it were to form the next federal government. Although it appears unlikely the province would abandon its longstanding pricing system altogether. “We fully support Pierre …
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