Category Archives: Alberta
Winter tires required Oct. 1 on most B.C. highways
If you are heading to B.C. as of next week, make sure you have your winter tires on.British Columbia's winter tire regulations are set to take effect Oct. 1, and safety officials are warning drivers t...
Sep 24, 2025
Interim report on Alberta health contract scandal not finished, won't be made public
Alberta's government says it has yet to receive an interim report on the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts but it should be finished in the coming days.The government ...
Sep 24, 2025
Alberta's population growth slowed in second quarter, but still highest in Canada
Statistics Canada says growth in the country's population slowed down over the last quarter, including in Alberta.As of July 1, 2025, the province was home to 5,029,346 people. That is an increase of ...
Sep 24, 2025
Alberta teachers to vote on tentative deal as strike date nears; government
The Alberta government says it has struck a tentative deal with the union representing 51,000 teachers provincewide.Finance Minister Nate Horner says the offer needs to be ratified by the members of t...
Sep 24, 2025
Search for missing five-year-old boy in southern Alberta enters third day
The search for a five-year-old boy is entering its third day as responders in southwestern Alberta expand their rescue area.Adam Kennedy with Alberta Search and Rescue says it's being adjusted because...
Sep 23, 2025
Joint investigation finds TikTok collected data of Canadian youth
A joint investigation, which included the Government of Alberta, has revealed the measures put in place to keep children off the popular social-media application TikTok and to prevent the collection o...
Sep 23, 2025
Fact File: Will citizenship markers on Alberta ID stop non-citizens from voting?
Last week, the government of Alberta said it plans to add mandatory citizenship markers to driver's licences and other forms of identification. Premier Danielle Smith said the move would "ensure that ...
Sep 23, 2025
Search for missing five-year-old boy in southern Alberta enters third day
The search for a five-year-old boy in southwestern Alberta is entering its third day.RCMP say two nights of searches have yielded no results in finding Darius Macdougall.Macdougall went missing Sunday...
Sep 23, 2025
Five more ministries get new mandate letters from Premier Smith
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has released five more mandate letters.They follow up the first four which dropped last week, and come ahead of the legislative assembly reconvening for a fall session o...
Sep 23, 2025
Alberta to have the lowest minimum wage in Canada as of Oct. 1 as NDP calls for boost
The province of Alberta, once a national leader in minimum wage, is set to soon have the lowest such pay rate in Canada.The current rate of $15 an hour was set in 2018 by then-premier Rachel Notley's ...
Sep 22, 2025