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CanadaOct 10, 2024

Alberta UCP welcomes MLA who compared transgender kids to feces back into caucus

The Alberta politician who was removed from the United Conservative Party caucus after comparing transgender children to feces has been voted back in. Jennifer Johnson, the MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka, says she grew “personally and professionally” in the 17 months since being removed from caucus. “Now, I am eager to apply what I have learned to benefit everyone who calls this province home,” Johnson said in a news release. The MLA was kicked out last year after a 2022 recording surfaced of her comparing transgender youth to a batch of cookies laced with “a little bit of poop.” She has b
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AlbertaOct 09, 2024

Alberta announces tentative deal with resident doctors

Alberta’s Health Minister Adriana LaGrange has announced a tentative four-year deal with resident physicians. The agreement could mean wage increases of three per cent in each of the first two years, and two per cent in each of the last two years. It comes amid as negotiations with the United Nurses of Alberta have reached an apparent impasse that could lead to a strike vote. Family doctors are also waiting on a delayed pay deal they say is needed to keep their clinics afloat.
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CanadaOct 09, 2024

Premier Danielle Smith’s key strategist on Alberta addiction recovery policy to exit role

One of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's key advisers and the driving force behind the province's recovery-focused addiction treatment push is leaving the job. Premier Smith says her chief-of-staff, Marshall Smith, will retire from public service by the end of October. Marshall Smith has been held up as the architect of the government's approach to the drug-overdose crisis, prioritizing recovery over harm-reduction. Rob Anderson, executive director of the premier's office, is set to take over the chief-of-staff role. Marshall Smith has also been at the centre of a controversial poli
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CanadaOct 04, 2024

WestJet limits flight service to Lethbridge

Despite recent renovations to the Alberta's Lethbridge Airport, its sole airline provider is dropping its services to a single flight per day. WestJet intended to reduce the number of flights in Lethbridge to one on Oct 3. “We’ve got a schedule change that’s kind of started a little bit early, as of Oct. 1,” said Jared Mikoch-Gerke, director of alliances and airport affairs with WestJet. Blaine Hyggen, the mayor of Lethbridge, says the renovations in recent years were designed to bring business to the airport. This situation, according to WestJet, is not exclusive to the southern Albe
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CanadaOct 03, 2024

Strike vote looms for Alberta nurses union as informal mediation talks unsuccessful

Alberta's nurses could soon find themselves on the picket line as recent talks with the provincial government failed to secure a new agreement. David Harrigan, with the United Nurses of Alberta, says last month's informal mediation meetings were productive, but says the gap between the two sides seems too big to bridge. The union is seeking 30 per cent pay raises spread over two years while the Alberta government's offer is 7.5 per cent over four years. Harrigan says the two sides also find themselves far apart on operational issues. He says while both sides accept that there ar
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CanadaSep 26, 2024

"A few processes to go through": LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says there's more work to be done before a new compensation contract for Alberta's doctors is finalized. LaGrange says she has to make sure the new deal, which was agreed to in part this past April, is sustainable. She says doctor compensation under the existing contract over the past few years has risen quicker than inflation and population growth and is currently over budget this year. The group representing Alberta's doctors have said the government is dragging its feet in implementing the new deal and putting patients' lives at risk in the pro
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FeaturedSep 24, 2024

Alberta Medical Association says delayed pay deal will hurt health-care system

An Alberta doctors' group says even though a new pay deal with the province is ready to be implemented, the government isn't putting its money where its mouth is. Dr. Shelley Duggan, the Alberta Medical Association's new president, says doctors are worried the province's health-care system is on the verge of collapse, and the pay deal is still waiting on approval from the province's Treasury Board. Former association president Dr. Paul Parks says Premier Danielle Smith promised the deal by September and the delay is hurting the struggling health-care system. Parks says the government's work to
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CanadaSep 23, 2024

City of Calgary lifts all water restrictions

Calgary lifts water restrictions that lasted much of the summer following successful repairs to a major feeder main. Mayor Jyoti Gondek told in a news conference Sunday morning that the Bearspaw South feeder main is now open and back in service for the Calgary region. Since late August, there has been a ban on any outdoor water use with potable supplies, and Calgarians have been urged to take shorter showers, skip toilet flushes and hold off on laundry and dishes. It was the second round of water rationing since the feeder main in northwest Calgary burst in early June. Most restrictions had b
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CanadaSep 18, 2024

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces $8.6-billion in school builds

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says as classrooms get over whelmed with new grade school students, her government will fast-track new school builds with 8.6-billion dollars over the next three years. In a televised address, Smith says the province's existing education budget isn't enough to keep up with rapid population growth in kindergarten to Grade 12 schools. She says often the only thing holding back cash is school boards getting projects and sites ready for construction. The government is also changing the process of approving construction funding so school boards don't need to wait eve

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FeaturedSep 12, 2025

Danielle Smith, Alberta Next panel received warmly by Lethbridge crowd in latest stop

Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel received a relatively warm welcome from a crowd in Lethbridge during the seventh stop of its provincewide tour taking the public's temperature on Alberta's relationship with Ottawa. The friendly audience was interspersed with pushback from people in attendance who voiced their displeasure with the government and many of the proposals being put forward. The town halls are aimed at addressing grievances Smith says are allowing separatist sentiments to fester and the results are to inform which questions may be put to a referendum next year.
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WorldSep 12, 2025

Trump says 'with a high degree of certainty' that suspect in Charlie Kirk killing has been caught

The suspect in custody in connection with the assassination of Charlie Kirk is a 22-year-old from Utah. That's according to a law enforcement official who told The Associated Press. The officials says authorities have identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson. The official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity. President Donald Trump said Friday on Fox News Channel a minister turned the suspect in to authorities. Federal and Utah state investigators had been appealing for the public's help in finding the person who killed
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AlbertaSep 12, 2025

Alberta's Smith says she found unprecedented common ground in meeting with Carney

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her latest meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney has inspired optimism and he is demonstrating a ``real shift'' from the previous Justin Trudeau-led Liberals. Speaking in Edmonton, Smith says she found more common ground with the prime minister when she met with him this week than she has in any meeting with a prime minister. She also took to social media following her face-to-face to say that although there are details to be worked out, the concerns of Albertans are ``finally being heard.'' It comes as Carney announces five major projects set
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BCSep 11, 2025

Victim identified in fatal Langley shooting

The victim of Friday’s fatal shooting in Langley has been identified as 24-year-old Taran Pandher. IHIT’s Integrated Gang Homicide Team (IGHT) has taken conduct of the investigation. Background: On September 5, 2025, at approximately 10:28 p.m. the Langley RCMP responded reports of a shooting around 200 Street and 53 Avenue, Langley. Frontline officers arrived promptly, located the victim and initiated lifesaving measures. Despite their efforts, the victim succumbed to their injures at the scene. The shooting occurred while the victim was inside a taxi and there is only one victim and no o
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AlbertaSep 11, 2025

Alberta's Smith says tight budget means teachers face a stark choice in bargaining

With a provincewide teachers strike looming, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says their union has a stark choice between heftier pay hikes and more teachers. Smith suggests they can have one or the other, but they can't have both. Smith made the comments today to reporters when asked about stalled contract talks between her government and the Alberta Teachers' Association, the day after the union set a strike date of Oct. 6. Alberta has offered wage hikes starting at 12 per cent over four years, with a promise to hire 3,000 teachers over three years. The union says that's not e