Beyond Local

"I truly want to move forward together for the sake of patients and all Albertans," he wrote in a letter to Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Paul Boucher.

In a speech Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, Champagne said he hopes a COVID-19 vaccine can be produced at home in the "medium term" as a federal investment strategy begins to bear fruit.

"The number one riskiest activity is living in a household with someone who's infectious," Hinshaw said. "There is no other activity that even comes close to that proportion of our new cases.”

St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper describes changes to the new medical assistance in dying (MAID) law that include allowing mental illness to be a sole underlying cause as the height of recklessness.

Alberta Energy spokesman Kavi Bal said the government was unable to comment on the road density findings. All exploration is subject to cleanup timelines, he said. 

Wyatt Thunder, 26, will be in Fort Saskatchewan court March 25

Chief Justice Richard Wagner says in the written ruling that climate change is a real danger and evidence shows a price on pollution is a critical element in addressing it.

"In many ways, (the public health measures) matter more than ever because we are getting so close to the end of this pandemic, thanks to vaccines," she said.

O'Toole said Tuesday what he intends to present to Canadians — before the next election — is a plan that will reduce emissions without using a federal carbon tax.

“(It) was a policy that we never should have pursued in the first place, and there will be no changes being made moving forward.”