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Brian Jean apologized for social media post about rival UCP candidate

Former Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean has apologized for a social media post about a rival for the United Conservative Partynomination in an Alberta byelection.In a post that has since been amended, Jean said that Premier Jason Kenney's people were backing a candidate that Jean described as ``a Nigerian economist.''Joshua Gogo accused Jean of trying to make the nomination contest in Fort McMurry about his ethnicity and of trying to undermine hiscredibility by implying he is not Albertan.Jean says a campaign volunteer posted what he says was an inappropriate comment and he called Gogo to give...

Alberta to get $ 3.8B child care federal funding

Alberta will receive 3.8-billion dollars in federal funding over the next five years after signing onto the federal government's universal child-care program.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the program will make a huge difference in the lives of families in the province but also in Canada's economic recovery. Under the deal, fees in licenced child-care facilities are to be cut in half next year and fall to 10-dollars a day, on average, within five years.Choice of child care had been a sticking point in negotiations and Premier Jason Kenny says he will make subsidies eligible for alltypes of...

St. Albert school closed following bomb threat

R-C-M-P say they are investigating a bomb threat at a high school in a city northwest of Edmonton.Police say Bellerose Composite High School in St. Albert notified R-C-M-P about a threat being reported to the school.The information referred specifically to a bomb threat on Wednesday, November 10th.St. Albert R-C-M-P say they are taking the threat seriously and has started safety planning with the school....

Appeal in Alberta triple murder delayed until Supreme Court weighs

Alberta's top court has agreed to hear a sentence appeal of a man convicted of killing three people but a hearing date has been delayed indefinitely.Derek Saretzky was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2015 deaths of Terry Blachette, the man's two-year-old daughter, Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, and Hanne Meketech. He was sentenced to life with no chance at parole for 75 years.His lawyer, Balfour Der, asked the Alberta Court of Appeal for permission to challenge the constitutionality of consecutive parole ineligibility periods.The Appeal Court says it will hear the appeal, but only after ...

RCMP seized contraband tobacco worth over million dollars from Central Alberta

The R-C-M-P has released details of a large seizure of contraband tobacco products in central Alberta.Mounties say that in August officers searched three properties in Red Deer, Lacombe County and Morningside and found illegalcigarettes worth more than one-million dollars.Police say the investigation revealed the smokes were being distributed for sale around the province.Chrys Tremblay of Red Deer has been charged with selling contraband tobacco under the Criminal Code and other offences....

Alberta politician angry after COVID-19 protesters leave gallows,

An Alberta member of the legislature says she is outraged after COVID-19 protesters came to her house on the weekend and hung up a noose.Tracy Allard calls the threats and intimidation inexcusable and says her private life and her family are out of bounds to protesters.Allard made the comments on her Facebook page where she described what happened at her home in Grande Prairie, Alberta on Sunday.She says it began with a small group of protesters that soon grew to 30, prompting police to be called.Allard says the protesters left behind a crude wooden gallows, with a noose, and the words ``No to...

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Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin opts for trial by judge only in sexual assault case

The senior military officer once tasked with overseeing Canada's COVID-19 vaccination drive is opting to have his sexual assault case tried by a Quebec judge without a jury present. A lawyer for Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin announced the decision during a brief hearing in a Gatineau courtroom this morning. Fortin was removed from his position on the vaccine campaign in May and was charged with one count of sexual assault in August. He is fighting for reinstatement to his former role with the Public Health Agency of Canada alleging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior members of the Liberal...

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