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“What is paramount for either one of these groups, whether high school or elementary or middle, is whatever their choice ...  [It is] until the end of June,” said Rocky View Schools Superintendent Greg Luterbach. “We cannot flip back and forth.”

"Nobody would have ever predicted that in a pandemic we were going to be selling as many houses as we are,” said Cochrane realtor Kendra Watt. “Even though we were shut down for seven weeks we had a record-breaking year."

On Monday, Premier Jason Kenney said the province's supply of the vaccine will run out a week from now, "unless we get a huge surprise shipment."

The Town of Cochrane reported 55 active cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. To date, the town has identified 289 cases of the virus— A total of 233 people have recovered and one person has died.

“When we looked at our numbers, initially, back say seven or eight years ago, we were getting three or four a year. This year I believe we have almost hit 50 [FOIP requests] in 2020.”

The West Bragg Creek day use area has seen record-breaking attendance this season, according to the association that maintains its trails.

“The biggest thing is to take whatever resolution or new goal or whatever it is that you want to chomp away at in fitness, nutrition, health, wellness, is to break that up into small goals."

Canada's first case of a new, more infectious variant of COVID-19 that surfaced in South Africa was found in Alberta on Friday, the same day two Atlantic provinces tightened their boundaries and Ontario warned tough new measures may be on the way if

"Like I said, I’m not making a fortune, but the fact that I’m making people happy— That’s the fortune that I like."

"(The) buck stops with me," Kenney said