Alberta

When it comes to the Alberta government’s fondness for personal responsibility, one thing should be clear by now: They only think it applies to other people, not themselves, writes Max Fawcett.

With opioid deaths surging, the province’s decision to shut down the McCullough Centre in Gunn is just the latest example of the governing United Conservative Party’s callous disregard for the lives of people coping with addiction in Alberta, writes Susan Slade, a vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

A new poll suggests the premiers of Canada’s three Prairie provinces are lagging counterparts from the rest of the country when it comes to how local residents feel they are managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds.

The number of positive COVID-19 tests in a pilot project for international travellers at the Calgary airport and a United States border crossing in southern Alberta has been reasonably low after its first six weeks.

Alberta, seeking to heal with hard-edged humour, has launched a COVID-19 advertising campaign starring a fashion-challenged, hard-partying, virus-headed Freddy Kruegeresque super-spreader.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says a member of her inner circle committed a “personal betrayal” and fractured the working relationship of her COVID-19 team by leaking private conversations to the media.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province bending precariously under the weight of record COVID-19 cases, imposed new sweeping public health restrictions on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, that include a ban on gatherings in people’s homes.

COVID-19's second wave tightened its grip on the Prairies on Monday, November 23, 2020, while two eastern provinces pulled out of the Atlantic bubble in an effort to rein in the virus.

Environmental questions remain about using large amounts of fossil fuels to produce hydrogen gas, even if it does lead to lower transport emissions.

The creation of union jobs and support by Indigenous investors will help convince U.S. president-elect Joe Biden that the Keystone XL pipeline fits into his "Build Back Better" agenda, an executive with proponent TC Energy Corp. said Tuesday.

Canada's COVID-19 hot spots reported minor declines in daily infections on Sunday, November 15, 2020, but health officials urged people to remain cautious as the country rapidly approaches the 300,000-case mark and overall trends remain worrisome.

Emissions of a potent greenhouse gas from Canada's oilpatch are nearly twice as high as previously thought, says newly published federal research.

COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it’s time to “up our game” when it comes to COVID-19 by putting a lid on super-spreader house parties.