Alberta separatists getting organized — a unity challenge for Canada and Danielle Smith’s party
Prominent conservative grassroots campaigners will ramp up push for provincial independence if Liberals win federally....
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Legendary grizzly ‘The Boss’ and other Alberta bears emerging from winter dens
The Boss is awake and ready for another year of munching grains and tromping around the Bow Valley....
U.S. regulators order corrective action after Keystone Pipeline spill in North Dakota
U.S. federal regulators have ordered the Calgary-based operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused more than 556,000 litres...
‘It’s the perfect storm’: Doctors urge measles vaccinations as Alberta case counts rise
As concerns about measles grow, and case counts tick up, health-care workers are preparing for a surge and pleading with Albertans to ensure they’re fully vaccinated....
Wanted for murder in Missouri and Mexico, police say ‘Pistol Packin’ Mama’ hid in Alberta for decades
Fifty-five years after Missouri murderer Sharon Kinne escaped from a Mexican prison, American authorities confirm the fugitive had, for decades, been hiding in a small...
Coal firm suing Alberta government for billions argues minister’s comments back up its claim
A coal company suing the Alberta government is arguing that recent comments made by Alberta’s energy minister back up the company’s claim for compensation....
‘We need to be prepared’ for tariffs, Alberta premier says after Trump meeting
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says while she doesn’t want to assume anything after her meeting with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence over...
Equalization in focus as federal election nears and Alberta, Sask. premiers push for change
With a federal election on the horizon, Alberta and Saskatchewan’s premiers are again making noise about the country’s contentious equalization program. While the Liberal government...
Danielle Smith reworking Alberta’s everything, everywhere all at once
The premier makes no apologies for an ambitious reform agenda. But the more a government dismantles and rebuilds, the more risk there is for road...
Victims of Calgary double homicide remembered as amazing mother and grandfather
It’s believed Ania Kaminski and her father, Stanislaw Wardzala, were killed by Ania’s spouse, 38-year-old Benedict Kaminski, last weekend in an attack that police called...