Police say a 64-year-old man from La Crete, Alta., hasn’t been found after his tractor fell through ice while he was driving it across the Peace River on Tuesday. In a news release issued on Wednesday, High Level RCMP said police officers and firefighters were called to a report of a man falling through the […]
The City of Calgary’s planning and urban development committee has cleared up an unintended consequence of people getting eviction notices while their secondary suites are brought up to meet the Alberta Building Code. “One of the major talking points surrounding the secondary suites debate is that we’ve got thousands of Calgarians who are living in […]
Former US vice president Joe Biden says he will be “more mindful and respectful” of women’s personal space after acknowledging making some feel “uncomfortable”. The 76-year-old, who is tipped to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, responded to recent allegations of inappropriate behaviour in a video posted on his Twitter account. Mr Biden said he […]
Canada’s equalization program is a hot-button issue for many people in Alberta. Some political party leaders have said the equalization formula is unfair for Alberta, and promised to push Ottawa to revise or end it, if elected on April 16. But how much sway could a province have over a federal program? What would it […]
The president of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says his agency wants to raise millions more dollars to help Canadians afford places to live despite the billions already available in government funding. Evan Siddall says the aim is to raise $100 million more for housing, quickly and likely from private sources, because the tens […]
The Nato Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, has marked the alliance’s 70th anniversary with a rare address to the US Congress. “Nato has been good for Europe but Nato has also been good for the United States,” the former Norwegian prime minister said to applause. He said that Nato did not want a new Cold War […]
The Justice Department threatened to sue the Alabama state prison system Wednesday over shocking and brutal conditions uncovered during a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the state’s massively overcrowded facilities. The department said that it found that prisoners in the Alabama prison system endured some of the highest rates of homicide and rape in the country, and […]
Joe Biden has pledged to be “more mindful” about physical contact with women, hoping to draw a line under a controversy that has clouded his expected White House bid. The former US vice-president posted a video on Twitter saying he will in future respect personal space. Mr Biden stressed he has only ever intended to […]
Saskatchewan historically has been below the national average of organ and tissue donation, but there are efforts to change that. The province officially declared April 7 as Green Shirt Day, a new, nationwide day to raise awareness about organ donation in memory of Humboldt Bronco Logan Boulet. Boulet lost his life in the April 6, […]
More than half of Alberta’s decided and leaning voters say they would cast ballots for the United Conservative Party (UCP) in the upcoming provincial election, according to a poll by Calgary-based Janet Brown Opinion Research. Through the second week of the campaign, the UCP was the preferred choice of 53 per cent of poll respondents […]