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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's last budget before an expected spring election gives strong support to a proposed tax break for energy companies to fulfil their legal cleanup duties but doesn't tell voters how much would be spent on it.

CALGARY — The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says it expects investment in oil and natural gas production in this country to hit $40 billion this year.

CALGARY — "What we found was that persons who were taking vitamin D at baseline compared to those who took no vitamin D over that time developed dementia probably at a 40 per cent lower rate, so it's quite a significant association," Ismail said in an interview.

TORONTO — TikTok has been in the spotlight this week after the federal government announced it was banning the social media app from its devices days after Canadian privacy commissioners began investigating the company.

Over the next 10 days, essential night flying training of 4 Wing Cold Lake squadrons will take place over the City of Cold Lake and Lakeland area.

The woman will be sentenced on March 10

OTTAWA — Some Canadian politicians have started deactivating their TikTok accounts after the federal government decided to ban the app from government-issued devices.

Canada's provinces are poised for limited economic activity and sluggish growth for the rest of the year and into 2024, but the risk of a drawn-out recession is increasingly unlikely, according to a report released Tuesday.

“Right now we are really facing an affordability challenge that’s been unprecedented in recent time,” Alberta Minister of Finance Travis Toews said.

Miller met with survivors of the Blue Quills residential school, which operated in the area before being relocated just outside St. Paul in 1931.