Alberta News

Alberta COVID-19 vaccinations to start next week with hospital, care staff

EDMONTON — Alberta is to start distributing the COVID-19 vaccine next week to front-line health workers and caregivers. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the first round of the vaccine will be administered on Dec. 16.

Dec 9, 2020 5:14 PM Read more >

'Alberta bashing:' Kenney rejects criticism he waited too long on COVID rules

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting criticism he waited too long to bring in tighter COVID-19 measures as "Alberta bashing." The comment came in a radio interview Wednesday with Edmonton's CHED radio station.

Dec 9, 2020 5:00 PM Read more >

Investigators looking into shooting death involving Alberta RCMP

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

Dec 9, 2020 4:44 PM Read more >

Man charged after targeting Somali women in parking lot of Edmonton mall

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.

Dec 9, 2020 3:58 PM Read more >

Canadian Natural to boost oil and gas output by five per cent on higher $3.2B budget

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.

Dec 9, 2020 2:33 PM Read more >

Whitecap strikes deal to add TORC Oil & Gas to grow production to 100,000 boe/d

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.

Dec 9, 2020 12:52 PM Read more >

'Stronger action:' Many businesses to close as Alberta tightens COVID restrictions

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.

Dec 8, 2020 6:56 PM Read more >

Saint Jean Carbon to pay $62,500 to settle charges it issued misleading news release

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

Dec 8, 2020 1:45 PM Read more >

Alberta's top court dismisses appeal of Edmonton man convicted in road-rage attack

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.

Dec 8, 2020 1:03 PM Read more >

Enbridge raises quarterly dividend, sets conservative post-Line 3 pipeline strategy

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.

Dec 8, 2020 12:25 PM Read more >