Beyond Local

Just days before opening for the season, skiers, boarders and tubers wanting to access local ski slopes will either have to follow Alberta's Restrictions Exemption Program or provide vaccination verification at three of the four resorts this winter.

Local authorities acted quickly to rescue an injured BASE jumper stuck on the side of EEOR on Sunday.

The visibility of property taxes makes it more challenging for municipalities to raise the rates, says an expert on municipal finance.

Michael Houghton, the institute's other director and a Nobel laureate, said the initiative would focus on so-called "small-molecule" drugs — chemically-synthesized drugs that make up the great majority of what's in people's medicine cabinets. Ibuprofen, for example, is a small-molecule drug.

Questions about what to do with the national flag have surfaced in the lead-up to Remembrance Day, an occasion on which it has traditionally been lowered to half-mast as a tribute to soldiers who died while serving Canada.

While Canada has more than 17.5 million shots of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine in federal and provincial freezers, the doses being donated to COVAX will not come from that supply. Instead, Canada is donating the remainder of doses paid for but not yet received, which means it's up to the suppliers to provide the delivery schedule.

The goal, the report said, would be to allow more money for front-line enforcement and give communities more say in how they are policed.

So far 61 AHS employees have resigned because of the vaccine policy, including 31 in clinical roles. Eleven were registered nurses.

The federal government has said it now aims for a 40- to 45-per-cent reduction in emissions by 2035. To help meet that target, the government has announced five-year emissions-reductions targets for the oil and gas industry as well as regulations around methane.

The legislation is a response to a growing problem of oil and gas companies, both solvent and insolvent, not paying municipal property taxes. After several years of hard times and low prices in the oilpatch, Rural Municipalities Alberta says those unpaid taxes now total $245 million — about half of which is from companies still operating.