Calgary Skyview Liberal MP George Chahal has received death threats.The bully also threatened his family and made racist comments.Chahal has posted two videos in this regard on his social media.These are a total of four minutes of voice mails in which foul language is used against them.Chahal said that these voice mails were made by an unknown person in his constituency office.You are all a bunch of traitors who sold us out to China, so you should hang yourselves, said the unidentified person in the voice mail.Chahal was also threatened to leave the country.Calgary Police said in a statement t

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to stop in Edmonton this morning to meet with military personnel who are helping Alberta fight ongoing wildfires.About 300 members of the Canadian Armed Forces are to be deployed across the province to help with the blazes that have forced thousands of Albertans to flee their homes and rural properties.Wildfire officials are warning rising temperatures that have been a problem for crews battling wildfires in the province's north are now also a concern in the south.The number of evacuees in Alberta grew to more than 19,300 yesterday, with 23 of the 89 active

About 200 soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces have been deployed to help fight fires in Alberta, and 100 more will arrive in the province this weekend.The Minister of Public Safety of the state, Mike Ellis, gave this information.He said that members of the military are joining firefighters in the fight to control the wildfires in Grand Prairie, Fox Creek and Drayton Valley.Ellis said that the state government has paid about two million dollars in emergency payments to more than 6,500 victims of wildfires.At present, around 16,000 people are out of their homes.Initially, this number reached

The Alberta government says fire danger continues to be extreme in most of the province except the Rockies, where lower danger levels were expected.Some areas have experienced cooler temperatures and some rain, but the government says a return to hot and windy conditions is expected in the coming days.Indigenous Services Canada said Tuesday that nine First Nations were under threat by active wildfires.One of them was Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, about 360 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, where 1,600 people were forced to leave after fire destroyed 45 structures and power infrastructure.As of ea

An Alberta-based R.C.M.P officer who died in a crash while heading to help another officer will be honoured with a regimental funeral later this week.The Mounties have said Constable Harvinder Dhami's vehicle hit a large concrete barrier on a road on April 10th while he was driving to help other officers with a noise complaint.His funeral will be held Thursday morning at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park and will be preceded by a procession from Bethel Lutheran Church.Millennium Place will be closed to all but invited family members, friends and first responders, but R.C.M.P say the public are

Hundreds of police cars have lined streets in Edmonton as the bodies of two slain city officers are transported from the medical examiner's office to a funeral home.Blue ribbons are wrapped around street lights along the five-kilometre procession route.Civilians are also standing along the streets to show their support, some wearing blue ribbons and scarves.The bodies of Const. Brett Ryan and Const.Travis Jordan are to be kept at the Serenity Funeral Home until a public regimental funeral is held Monday at Rogers Place arena.Police have said the officers were responding to a family dispute at

The Alberta government says $1 million in funding is to be used to train rural health-care providers to better support victims of sexual assault.The money, announced in October, helped Grande Prairie's Northwestern Polytechnic develop an online course for specialized training. The course, called Rural Sexual Assault Care-Expanded, teaches how to provide comprehensive, trauma-informed care to survivors of recent sex assaults.It focuses on assessment, forensic evidence collection and court testimony.The government says too often sex assault survivors in rural Alberta must drive long distances to

Edmonton police say two officers were shot and killed while responding to a family dispute at an apartment complex and that it's believed the suspect killed himself.Police Chief Dale McFee says Constable Travis Jordan (35) and Constable Brett Ryan (30) were shot by a man as the entered the building in the city's northwest and were approaching the suite.He says other officers rushed the two wounded officers to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.McFee says it's believed the suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

A Calgary criminologist says Alberta's plan to make all police services in the province use body cameras could come with prohibitive costs and take a long time to put in place.Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis announced the plan Tuesday and said it would provide both officers and the public with protection, as well as transparency when police are required to make split-second decisions.Alberta will be working with the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police on funding, logistics and when the cameras will roll out.However, Doug King, a justice studies professor at Mount Royal University, says a