Alberta News

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — An agency that investigates serious police actions is looking into the shooting death of a man involving Mounties in northwestern Alberta.

EDMONTON — A 41-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at two Somali woman wearing hijabs in an Edmonton mall parking lot.

CALGARY — The end of Alberta's oil production curtailment program and purchase of natural gas producer Painted Pony Energy Ltd. earlier this year will help Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Calgary-based Whitecap Resources Inc. is cementing its position as a consolidator of conventional oil and gas producers in Western Canada with a friendly $550-million all-stock deal to buy rival TORC Oil & Gas Ltd.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province relentlessly pounded by thousands of new COVID-19 cases, has reintroduced strict economic lockdown rules and banned all outdoor social gatherings.

CALGARY — The Alberta Securities Commission says Saint Jean Carbon Inc.

EDMONTON — An Edmonton man sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison for breaking a woman's arms with a crowbar in a road-rage attack has lost an appeal of his conviction.

CALGARY — Returns to shareholders will be a higher priority as Enbridge Inc. completes its large capital projects, company executives told investors Tuesday, punctuating the strategy with an increase in its dividend.

Calgary police say they have charged a man with a double murder dating back more than 20 years. Police say two people entered a home in the city's southeast on July 11, 1994, and Barry Christian Buchart and Trevor Thomas Deakins were shot and killed.

RED DEER, Alta. — The Canadian junior hockey team says it will resume its selection camp on Tuesday after completing a 14-day quarantine. The camp was suspended on Nov. 26 after two players and one non-core staff member tested positive for COVID-19.