News

Trending Video
Unifor national president Lana Payne attends a news conference in Toronto, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Unionized workers at Ford Motor Co. of Canada have ratified a three-year agreement. Payne issued a statement today saying the deal will mean tremendous gains for autoworkers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Ford workers in Canada ratify agreement, set precedent for other automakers
FILE - Legendary game show host Bob Barker, 83, blows a kiss goodby to fans, as he tapes his final episode of “The Price Is Right” in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker has died
FILE - A Thursday, May 31, 2012 photo from files showing U.S. singer actress Tina Turner arriving for the Giorgio Armani fashion show held in Beijing. Legendary rock singer Tina Turner has married her longtime German beau, Erwin Bach, in a Swiss civil ceremony. The mayor of Kuesnacht, the wealthy Zurich-area community where Turner lives, says that she and Bach, a music executive, were married several weeks ago at the registry office. Markus Ernst told The Associated Press on Thursday, July 18, 2013, it was a routine ceremony, ahead of a private celebration on Sunday at the couple’s home. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Unstoppable superstar Tina Turner dead at 83
People who worked from home during the pandemic got more educated and were more likely to move, the U.S. Census Bureau discovered, among other things. (Credit: Pixabay)
Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in U.S. during pandemic
More Trending Videos 
Artur Pawlowski holds a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Pastor gets 60-day sentence for role in Alberta border blockade

A Calgary pastor was sentenced to 60 days in jail Monday for…

Artur Pawlowski holds a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
FILE - Team USA Taylor Heise (27) with teammates after the IIHF World Championship Women's ice hockey match against Japan in Herning, Denmark, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The newly launched Professional Women's Hockey League is taking shape. Each of the six franchise's head coaches are expected to be announced on Friday, Sept. 15. And Minnesota is looking ahead to the league's inaugural draft on Monday, when the yet-to-be-named franchise is expected to select Taylor Heise with the No. 1 pick. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Minnesota picks Taylor Heise 1st in the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League draft

Minnesota selected American forward Taylor Heise with the first pick of the…

FILE - Team USA Taylor Heise (27) with teammates after the IIHF World Championship Women's ice hockey match against Japan in Herning, Denmark, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The newly launched Professional Women's Hockey League is taking shape. Each of the six franchise's head coaches are expected to be announced on Friday, Sept. 15. And Minnesota is looking ahead to the league's inaugural draft on Monday, when the yet-to-be-named franchise is expected to select Taylor Heise with the No. 1 pick. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
The Wetaskiwin RCMP has one in custody following a firearms complaint on Sept. 17. An RCMP patch is seen on the shoulder of an assistant commissioner, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

One in custody following Wetaskiwin firearms complaint

The Wetaskiwin RCMP has one in custody following a firearms complaint on…

The Wetaskiwin RCMP has one in custody following a firearms complaint on Sept. 17. An RCMP patch is seen on the shoulder of an assistant commissioner, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Video
This Dec.14, 2018, handout image shows the asteroid Bennu in a composite of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s PolyCam imager from a distance of 24 kilometres. Seven years after it blasted into space to snag a sample of the asteroid, a spacecraft is set to deliver its rare cargo on Sunday – and Canada is getting a piece of the interstellar bounty. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Canada to get rare asteroid sample after OSIRIS-REx drops cargo to Earth
Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against children’s, experts say
Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. Grade 3 teacher Catherine Rioux-Tache leads her students into class at Sainte-Cecile elementary school on their first day back to school in Montreal, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
School boards grappling with AI use in classroom, but formal policies still elusive
<div>Beijing and Ottawa are in talks over how to increase flights between Canada and China, following an American deal in June. A passenger checks her phone as an Air China passenger jet taxis past at the Beijing Capital International airport in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan</div>
China wants more Canada flights after COVID-19 turbulence, despite tour-group ban
More Videos 
Eugenie Bouchard, from Canada, returns the ball to Danielle Collins, from the United States, during their qualifying match at the National Bank Open tennis tournament in Montreal, Saturday, August 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Bouchard, Fernandez net singles wins in Mexico

Eugenie Bouchard had to work a little longer than expected, but she…

Eugenie Bouchard, from Canada, returns the ball to Danielle Collins, from the United States, during their qualifying match at the National Bank Open tennis tournament in Montreal, Saturday, August 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
FILE - In this March 1, 2017 file photo, Exxon Mobil Chairman & CEO Darren Woods is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants are set to testify at a landmark House hearing Thursday as congressional Democrats investigate what they describe as a decades-long, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Calgary hosts global oil-producing nations at 24th World Petroleum Congress

Hundreds of executives and government officials from oil-producing nations around the world…

FILE - In this March 1, 2017 file photo, Exxon Mobil Chairman & CEO Darren Woods is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants are set to testify at a landmark House hearing Thursday as congressional Democrats investigate what they describe as a decades-long, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Galen Weston arrives for a meeting on the growing cost of food in Ottawa, Sept. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Champagne, Freeland meet with grocery executives to discuss stabilizing prices

Top executives from Canada’s major grocery chains are in Ottawa this morning…

Galen Weston arrives for a meeting on the growing cost of food in Ottawa, Sept. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon walks with Tamara Lich in to the courthouse on the first day of trial, in Ottawa, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The lawyers involved in the case of two prominent "Freedom Convoy" organizers are working to keep the court from coming to a complete standstill as the trial enters its third week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Demonstrators wouldn’t leave as police moved in on ‘Freedom Convoy,’ court hears

A member of the Quebec provincial police force says protesters were resistant…

Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon walks with Tamara Lich in to the courthouse on the first day of trial, in Ottawa, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The lawyers involved in the case of two prominent "Freedom Convoy" organizers are working to keep the court from coming to a complete standstill as the trial enters its third week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Liberals, Tories compete on housing policy as MPs return to Ottawa after summer break

The federal Liberals intend to introduce legislation soon that would eliminate the…

The Drumheller RCMP has arrested two following firearms complaints and reckless driving. (Black Press file photo)

Drumheller RCMP arrests two following firearms complaint

The Drumheller RCMP has two in custody following a firearms complaint on…

The Drumheller RCMP has arrested two following firearms complaints and reckless driving. (Black Press file photo)
A man found guilty of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death more than two decades ago has failed in an appeal of his conviction before Alberta’s top court. A courtroom at the Edmonton Law Courts building, in Edmonton on Friday, June 28, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

‘Dismissed’: Man convicted in 2002 murder of Alberta girlfriend loses appeal

Parent appealed his conviction, arguing some evidence shouldn’t have been allowed to go to the jury

A man found guilty of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death more than two decades ago has failed in an appeal of his conviction before Alberta’s top court. A courtroom at the Edmonton Law Courts building, in Edmonton on Friday, June 28, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
A daycare at the centre of an E-coli outbreak at several daycares is seen in Calgary, Alta., Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta chief medical officer of health says added sites will be closed, sanitized

The sites will be required to be cleaned, sanitized; all children will be tested to confirm their negative status

A daycare at the centre of an E-coli outbreak at several daycares is seen in Calgary, Alta., Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The proposed Bar W Resort RV park would include 318 sites on the south side of Buffalo Lake. (Image contributed)

Stettler County Bar W Resort takes another step forward

Permit approved during Stettler County MPC meeting on Sept. 8

The proposed Bar W Resort RV park would include 318 sites on the south side of Buffalo Lake. (Image contributed)
Health Canada is reviewing a declaration by American government experts who say a key ingredient in over-the-counter cold and allergy medications also available in this country does not work to get rid of nasal congestion. Pharmacist Gary Lundgren holds a Sudafed in Central Drugs Tuesday, June 27, 2006, in Portland, Ore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Rick Bowmer

Health Canada to review U.S. panel’s conclusion that common decongestant doesn’t work

Health Canada says it will review a declaration by American government experts…

Health Canada is reviewing a declaration by American government experts who say a key ingredient in over-the-counter cold and allergy medications also available in this country does not work to get rid of nasal congestion. Pharmacist Gary Lundgren holds a Sudafed in Central Drugs Tuesday, June 27, 2006, in Portland, Ore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Rick Bowmer
Shell Canada president Susannah Pierce says while oil and gas companies must do what they can to reduce their own emissions, they can only move as fast as the rest of the economy. Motorists fuel up vehicles at a Shell gas station in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy: Shell Canada

The fossil fuel industry is increasingly under the microscope for its contribution…

Shell Canada president Susannah Pierce says while oil and gas companies must do what they can to reduce their own emissions, they can only move as fast as the rest of the economy. Motorists fuel up vehicles at a Shell gas station in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A lawyer for Matthew de Grood, who fatally stabbed five young people at a Calgary house party and has been seeking more freedom while he's under psychiatric care wants the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his appeal. Family members of the five slain students hold heart signs with their names on them following a court decision in Calgary, on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Lawyer asks Supreme Court to hear appeal of Calgary man who killed five

A lawyer for a man who fatally stabbed five young people at…

A lawyer for Matthew de Grood, who fatally stabbed five young people at a Calgary house party and has been seeking more freedom while he's under psychiatric care wants the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his appeal. Family members of the five slain students hold heart signs with their names on them following a court decision in Calgary, on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The county of Stettler is facing historic levels of head amidst drought conditions. (County of Stettler Logo)

County of Stettler hears it’s facing historic levels of heat, lack of moisture

By: Stu Salkeld, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter East Central Alberta Review It’s…

  • Sep 15, 2023
The county of Stettler is facing historic levels of head amidst drought conditions. (County of Stettler Logo)
Royal Canadian Legion logo. (File image)

Stettler Legion reopens with new executive

There are some big changes happening at the Stettler Legion. Following the…

Royal Canadian Legion logo. (File image)
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a luncheon hosted by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in Edmonton on Thursday July 20, 2023. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is to address the E. coli outbreak related to several Calgary daycares during a news conference this morning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Alberta government to help families affected by E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares

The Alberta government will immediately give families $2,000 for each child affected…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a luncheon hosted by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in Edmonton on Thursday July 20, 2023. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is to address the E. coli outbreak related to several Calgary daycares during a news conference this morning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Alberta finance minister Nate Horner speaks to the media at a news conference in Calgary Thursday, June 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Another agency increases Alberta’s credit rating

‘This credit rating upgrade is another testament to our prudent fiscal management’: Horner

Alberta finance minister Nate Horner speaks to the media at a news conference in Calgary Thursday, June 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
<div>The Central Okanagan Regional Operations centre says residents of 16 properties along Bear Creek Road are allowed to go home, although they remain on evacuation alert and must be ready to leave again if the McDougall Creek wildfire flares again. Burned trees are seen above a neighbourhood in West Kelowna, B.C. during a visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in West Kelowna, B.C., Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marissa Tiel</div>

B.C. ending state of emergency as wildfire risk winds down

British Columbia’s state of emergency ended Thursday just under four weeks after…

<div>The Central Okanagan Regional Operations centre says residents of 16 properties along Bear Creek Road are allowed to go home, although they remain on evacuation alert and must be ready to leave again if the McDougall Creek wildfire flares again. Burned trees are seen above a neighbourhood in West Kelowna, B.C. during a visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in West Kelowna, B.C., Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marissa Tiel</div>