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Trial date for Calgary terrorism suspect delayed a full year

The trial for a Calgary man accused of travelling to Syria to commit terrorism offences will occur exactly one year after it was originally scheduled. Jamal Borhot was charged in 2020 with three counts of participating in terrorist group activity after a seven year investigation by the RCMP. Police allege he committed terrorist activities benefiting the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in 2013 and 2014. A trial was originally scheduled for this October but his lawyer removed himself from the case. The new four-week trial begins Oct. 3, 2023. Borhot's new lawyer said he needs time to ...

Family, friends rally around orphaned children after mother killed in road-rage crash

CALGARY - Family and friends are rallying around the children of a Calgary woman who died after a road-rage shooting led to a four-vehicle crash. Angela McKenzie, who was 40, died Tuesday when two vehicles thatwere pursuing each other collided with her van and another car at an intersection in the city's southeast. McKenzie was identified by her church pastor as a mother of five children between the ages of nine and 17. A GoFundMe account has been set up by a church member to help the children and their grandmother, who is currently caring for them. Capt. Ian Scott, pastor of the Salvation Arm...

Alberta health minister apologizes, hits pause on changes to insulin pump funding

Alberta's health minister says planned changes to funding for insulin pumps are on hold after people with Type 1 diabetes voiced worries about potential financial or medical hardship. Jason Copping says the changes, which were to begin Aug. 1, are being put off pending consultations to make sure no one is forced to choose between a pump and putting food on the table. Copping, speaking in the legislature during question period, apologized to the roughly 4,000 Albertans who use insulin pumps. The government said last week that it would change how it funds the pumps, small programmable machines t...

Pope Francis to visit Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit in July

The Vatican says Pope Francis will stop in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut during his visit to Canada this summer. It says the capital cities of Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit will act as bases for the trip from July 24 to 29. The ...

Ottawa approves $10B loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain pipeline project

The federal government has approved a new, approximately $10-billion loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a move it says is common practice and does not reflect any additional public funding for the high-profi...

NDP says data shows Alberta's emergency medical services in crisis

Alberta's Opposition NDP says new data shows a health-care system in crisis due to long wait times.The Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services quarterly dashboard from early April shows ambulance response times in urban areas got progressively worse in the past year. NDP Leader Rachel Notley says those numbers are another sign of an ambulance and hospital system under extreme stress. In the past week, there have been reports of ambulances lined up outside hospitals, surgeries being diverted and long wait times at children's hospitals in Calgary and Edmonton. Mike Parker, a paramedic...

Bystander dies after road-rage shooting led to crash, Calgary police say

Calgary police say a woman has died after a road-rage shooting that led to a four-vehicle crash.The police service says in a news release that it received multiple reports last night about two vehicles driving erratically and an exchange of gunfire in the city's northeast. They say at least two homes were struck by stray bullets. Police say the two vehicles pursued one another before colliding with other vehicles at an intersection in the southeast. Officers say people in the two vehicles continued to fire shots at each other at the scene before fleeing on foot. The driver of a silver van, a 4...

Alberta government to amending its bereavement bill

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is amending its bereavement bill following criticism that it allowed leave for stillbirths and miscarriages but was silent on abortions. Labour Minister Kaycee Madu (KAY'-see MAH'-doo) has introduced a change to the bill that, if passed, would allow for three days unpaid leave in any pregnancy that doesn't end in a live birth. Madu says he has heard concerns from critics and other stakeholders to make the definition as broad as possible. Opposition N-D-P critic Sarah Hoffman says the change doesn't go far enough, and the United Conservative government must s...

Alberta RCMP charge teen with attempted murder after school stabbing

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a fellow student was stabbed in the library of a central Alberta school. RCMP say the boy is also charged with aggravated assault in relation to yesterday's attack at...

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B.C. Government Introduces Bill to Impose Tolls on Trucks from Washington and Alaska

Premier David Eby’s government introduced a bill in the legislature today to impose tolls on trucks from Washington and Alaska that pass through B.C. Deputy Premier Nikki Sharma stated that the bill would provide the provincial go...

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