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"They basically left with the shirts on their back at the time," said John Dardis, who worked as the incident commander the night of the fire.

From bee hotels to planting wildflowers, here's how you can help the province's expert pollinators

"Life is never perfect but I think it is a good time to be a farmer," 56-year-old Andre Harpe said during a break from seeding his 5,000-acre farm in Alberta's Peace Region.

The fire that burned through the St. Albert seniors' complex May 6, "appears to be non-suspicious.”

AHS says Kevin Johnston must stay at least 100 metres away from health officers and must not publish any threats or hate speech directed at them.

"Ecojustice has failed to show that the (order in council creating the inquiry) was enacted on a bad faith basis or for other egregious reasons," Horner said in her decision Friday.

“Absolutely under no circumstances should you feed any wildlife … we need everybody contributing to the effort to keep the wild in wildlife," said Dan Rafla, a human-wildlife management specialist with Banff National Park.

"I did not reveal which way I was voting. I didn't want to, you know, put my finger on the scale, but I did express my disappointment with some of the conduct."

“When you look at the availability of landscape, it's not really this notion that we can build resorts in every corner of the province. It's about the idea that each area is geographically unique, the biodiversity within that region is worth conserving and celebrating and sharing. You enhance people's attitudes towards conservation when you experience these things.”

Greg Christenson plans to keep resident groups together in his other buildings to preserve their sense of community.