Beyond Local

While Alberta lags behind eastern Canada in availability of hospice/palliative beds, advocates say it's a needed option.

EDMONTON — Canada and Alberta have signed a deal on caribou protection that gives them years to take action but could allow energy drilling to resume on some ranges.

“They are effectively unprotected and subjected to high risks of mortality from hunting and trapping outside the park boundaries, and even highway and railway mortality inside Banff National Park.”

The bill would make it illegal to profit from providing conversion therapy

For opening day, Mt. Norquay will be operating the Cascade Chair, with the Cascade Lodge accessible to guests

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer, said a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has not changed her view that trick-or-treating is low risk.

CP Rail says it expects a low-single-digit decline in revenue ton-miles in 2020

In total, the airline said it now has about 1,700 active employees, down from 5,100 before the pandemic

Economists on average had expected a year-over-year increase of 0.4 per cent