Category Archives: Alberta
Someone in Alberta set to win $36 million in lottery
Check your lotto tickets, because somebody in the province is about to become a multi-millionaire.The Western Canada Lottery Corporation says the grand prize winning ticket was purchased in Alberta fo...
Oct 16, 2025
Province still waiting to receive report on health contracts corruption allegations
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she expects to receive a final report today from the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts.Former Manitoba judge Raymond Wyant was hire...
Oct 15, 2025
Responsibility to end strike, ATA says, lies 'squarely with government'
The union representing Alberta's 51,000 teachers says it has presented a counter-offer to the provincial government, in an effort to get kids back to school.A provincewide strike began Oct. 6.In a sta...
Oct 15, 2025
Alberta getting new licence plates
Alberta is getting new licence plates.The UCP announced Wednesday a 'tournament-style' online vote to select a new licence plate design, which will replace the current one that was designed in 1984.Re...
Oct 15, 2025
Alberta RCMP issues 1,916 tickets during Operation Impact 2025
Alberta RCMP issued over 1900 tickets over Thanksgiving long weekend.Alberta Mounties participated in Operation Impact 2025, a safety campaign aimed at making Canada's roads the safest in the world.A ...
Oct 15, 2025
Talks stall between Alberta teachers, government in provincewide strike
EDMONTON - Alberta's finance minister says there's a major divide between what the union representing striking teachers is asking for and what the government is willing to spend. Nate Horner says in a...
Oct 15, 2025
Teachers strike having impact on those training to become teachers
Alberta's massive teachers strike is having an impact on people training to become teachers.Haley Roberts, an education student from the University of Alberta, says she was supposed to begin a require...
Oct 15, 2025
Better Business Bureau warns of parent strike pay spoofing sites
Albertans are being warned by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to be wary of spoof websites imitating the provincial government's Parent Payment Program portal.That's the site by which the UCP are giv...
Oct 15, 2025
Applications open for provincial parent payment program
The Government of Alberta has officially launched the parent payment portal, and applications are now open for the parent payment program that will support families during the teachers' strike.The par...
Oct 14, 2025
Alberta teachers, government resume talks as provincewide strike hits second week
EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers and the provincial government's bargaining committee met Tuesday for the first time since a provincewide strike began a week ago. As of Tuesday after...
Oct 14, 2025