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Get your money's worth at the grocery store

Get your money's worth at the grocery store

Small ways to help ease the hit on your wallet at the grocery store.
Eric Akis: Overripe bananas? Time for some chunky monkey bread

Eric Akis: Overripe bananas? Time for some chunky monkey bread

Turn your banana bread into chunky monkey bread with dark chocolate chunks and walnuts.
Exercise benefits a key heart health factor in postmenopausal women

Exercise benefits a key heart health factor in postmenopausal women

Research shows exercise benefits lining of the arteries in postmenopausal women; helps prevent heart disease
From marketing to design, brands adopt AI tools despite risk

From marketing to design, brands adopt AI tools despite risk

Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and poems or conjure new images on command, chances are the companies that make your household products are already starting to do so.
Japan's Nissan slashing EV costs, cuts rare materials use

Japan's Nissan slashing EV costs, cuts rare materials use

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan is revving up its electrification shift and slashing costs by using the same components across models and reducing use of expensive rare materials.
Dutch government to restrict sales of processor chip tech

Dutch government to restrict sales of processor chip tech

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government announced Wednesday that it is planning on imposing additional restrictions on the export of machines that make advanced processor chips, joining a U.S. push that aims at limiting China's access to materials used to make such chips.
Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it.
St. Albert to invasive honey bees: Buzz off

St. Albert to invasive honey bees: Buzz off

With spring on the horizon, the City of St. Albert is considering how to adapt environmental operations to better support Alberta's 375 different native bee species, rather than the invasive, disease spreading, and food-hogging honey bee.
Deliberate planning needed to see women succeed in renewable energy sector

Deliberate planning needed to see women succeed in renewable energy sector

Women are still under-represented in the traditional energy industry in Alberta and there are fears the gender equity gap may be replicated in the renewable energy sector.
Seniors and the Alberta budget

Seniors and the Alberta budget

Critics say there isn't enough in Budget 2023 for seniors, with affordability payments running out right after the election and still no dedicated seniors advocate.
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