Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's former chief of staff is suing the fired CEO of the province's front-line health agency and the newspaper that first reported allegations of corruption in multimillion-dollar health contracts.

EDMONTON — A judge sentenced an Edmonton police officer to six months jail Friday for making sexual advances toward eight vulnerable women he met on the job. Const.

CALGARY — A Crown prosecutor is calling for a Calgary couple who killed their badly burned and emaciated toddler to be sentenced to eight years in prison.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Friday an overhaul of several government ministries, creating two new health services portfolios and replacing her Indigenous relations minister.

CALGARY — The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is long overdue. "I think they finally woke up.

CALGARY — The executive chairman of Strathcona Resources Ltd. says his company aims to join two complementary oilsands players with its unsolicited takeover bid for MEG Energy Corp., but one analyst calls the $5.

OTTAWA — The Alberta separatist movement presents a danger to the federal Conservative party, said former Tory member of Parliament Stockwell Day.

CALGARY — Alberta is putting $6.5 million toward a new initiative at the University of Calgary to study how Canada's relationship with the United States is changing with U.S. President Trump in the White House.

CALGARY — Oil shipper South Bow Corp. is lowering the upper end of its 2025 earnings forecast due to market uncertainty and ongoing pressure restrictions on its Keystone pipeline.

CALGARY — The head of a group representing Calgary’s business community says a referendum on separation would inflict grave damage on the economies of Alberta and Canada — regardless of the result.