Alberta

Conscience rights bill rejected by committee

EDMONTON - A private member's bill that would have given further protection to Alberta health workers who invoked their conscience rights has been rejected at the committee level.The standing committe...

Nov 22, 2019

Chretien says blame of western alienation not on Trudeau

OTTAWA - Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien has jumped to the defence of the new minority Liberal government, brushing off the notion that it deserved to be shunned by the provinces of Saskatchewan a...

Nov 22, 2019

‘I was bawling’: Injured Bronco’s mother stunned by his progress after surgery

The mother of a hockey player paralyzed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash says she's stunned by the progress he has made since receiving spinal surgery in Thailand.Doctors implanted an epidural stimul...

Nov 22, 2019

Bill passes to fire Alberta election watchdog during probe of governing party

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has passed a bill to fire election commissioner Lorne Gibson, raising questions about the future of his investigation into Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative ...

Nov 21, 2019

NDP wants entire UCP caucus banned from voting on Bill 22

EDMONTON- Opposition leader Rachel Notley wants the ethics commissioner to ban the entire United Conservative caucus from voting on a bill that would fire the province's election watchdog.Notley says ...

Nov 21, 2019

Alberta education minister blasts Calgary school board over staff cuts

CALGARY - Alberta's education minister is ordering a financial audit and governance review of the Calgary Board of Education.Adriana LaGrange says it was difficult to hear that the public school board...

Nov 21, 2019

Alberta Review Board chair quits over lack of government support

EDMONTON - The chairwoman of the Alberta Review Board says she has decided to resign after months of what she characterizes as banging her head against a wall.Jill Taylor sent her resignation letter t...

Nov 21, 2019

Kenney urges ministers to take province’s concerns seriously

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is urging federal cabinet ministers with portfolios of interest to Alberta to listen to the province's concerns and to take them seriously.He says in a statement that h...

Nov 21, 2019

Province changing farm safety legislation

EDMONTON - The majority of Alberta farm operations would no longer have to follow employment standards rules or have workplace insurance under a bill introduced in the legislature. The bill also state...

Nov 20, 2019 Alberta Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen with family members and workers at Tri M Farms.

Trans Mountain received $320M in government subsidies in first half of 2019: report

VANCOUVER - The Trans Mountain pipeline received $320 million in subsidies from the Canadian and Alberta governments in the first half of 2019, says a new report by an economic institute that analyzes...

Nov 20, 2019