Alberta

Alberta meat plant, site of COVID-19 outbreak last year, to get vaccination clinics

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - Alberta Health Services says plans are underway to set up COVID-19 vaccination clinics at a meat-packing plant that was the site of a major outbreak last year.Nearly half of the 2,...

Apr 08, 2021

Alberta ramps up vaccine rollout starting Wednesday

Alberta's government says it is bringing in four new measures starting immediately to ramp-up the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as infections and hospitalizations rise.The new measures will mean about 500,...

Apr 07, 2021

AHS shuts down GraceLife Church

Alberta Health Services has physically closed GraceLife Church (GLC) in Spruce Grove and is preventing access to the building after the church repeatedly refused to comply with public health orders.AH...

Apr 07, 2021

Grande Prairie adds 36 new cases, Alberta surpasses 2,000 COVID-19 deaths

The City of Grande Prairie added 36 new cases of COVID-19 along with 22 recoveries for April 5, bringing the active case total in Grande Prairie up to 372.Meanwhile, the County of Grande Prairie added...

Apr 06, 2021

Parts of Alberta's draft school curriculum plagiarized, academic finds

CALGARY - An expert in plagiarism says parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit.Sarah Elaine Eaton, a profess...

Apr 06, 2021

Grande Prairie man involved with grassroots organization calls for a new curriculum

A father, business owner, and author from Grande Prairie has joined the grassroots organization Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft (ARCD) to call for the draft K-6 curriculum to be thrown out, and a ne...

Apr 06, 2021

Third request to federal government to join coal mine environmental review in Alberta

A third request has been made to the federal government to get involved in the review of a coal mine proposed for Alberta's Rocky Mountains.Landowners, Indigenous people and environmental groups are a...

Apr 06, 2021

Vaccine rollout Phase 2B expands to AHS vaccination clinics

The Alberta COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan's Phase 2B has been expanded to allow people to book appointments at Alberta Health Services clinics across the province.This allows Albertans born in or befo...

Apr 05, 2021

More work needed to keep young Albertans in the province: Sen. Black

Senator Doug Black says there's growing concern that young Albertans are choosing to leave the province for work opportunities, and more needs to be done to keep the next generation in Alberta.He came...

Apr 05, 2021

First grant issued under Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program

The first grant approved by the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP) will support the creation of a propane-to-polypropylene plastic facility located in the Industrial Heartland just north ...

Apr 05, 2021