Alberta

Three provincial privacy watchdogs have ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting, using and disclosing images of people without consent.

The green transition will need trained apprentices, architects, engineers and other climate-educated workers, many of whom are just leaving high school or in the midst of their post-secondary education.

He says there has been a sharp turnaround from the early days of the pandemic when unemployment hit 25 per cent and for close to 10 weeks the province was unable to sell an Alberta government bond.

The global energy transition could create 170,000 jobs in Alberta and contribute $61 billion to the province's GDP by 2050, according to a new study released on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, by provincial economic development groups.

The federal government is committing $14.7 million to fight aquatic invasive species in five mountain national parks in Alberta and British Columbia, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced on Saturday, December 4, 2021.

The Alberta government has hired a private law firm to defend Premier Jason Kenney after environmental groups threatened him with a defamation lawsuit.

Alberta and British Columbia are reporting their first cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant that has now been detected in four Canadian provinces.

Columnist Max Fawcett says David Suzuki has been a lot of things over the course of his 85 years: a scientist, a TV personality, a grandfather and, through it all, a dedicated environmentalist. But a terrorist?

In both Alberta and Saskatchewan, political support for independence at the provincial level remains confined to the fringes, writes Max Fawcett.

Representatives of 22 UCP constituencies have sent a letter to the party's executive saying they have met the required threshold required for a vote on Kenney’s performance at a special meeting before March 1.

Five new reports bring human health to the forefront of the climate mitigation conversation in an attempt to empower communities and decision-makers to consider local impacts when deciding on low-carbon infrastructure.

According to Statistics Canada, approximately 19,488 more Canadians died between March 2020 and July 2021 beyond the toll taken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We seem to constantly deal with improvised targets of ever-increasing ambition from a federal government that’s never come close to meeting its targets,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said.

Alberta politicians are warning the federal Liberal government that caps on greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas will have to be set in consultation with the province.

The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.