Alberta News

OTTAWA — A number of Conservative MPs have written letters to the Liberal housing minister asking him to grant their communities funding from a program that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre this week called disastrous and promised to cancel.

CALGARY — Longtime assistant coaches Mark Kilam and Brent Monson won't be back with the Calgary Stampeders.

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid is expected to miss two-to-three weeks with an ankle injury , the Edmonton Oilers said Wednesday.

EDMONTON — Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid is expected to be out for two to three weeks with an ankle injury, the NHL team said Wednesday. McDavid sustained the injury 37 seconds into Edmonton's 6-1 loss at Columbus on Monday.

LACOMBE, Alta. — Canada's Brad Gushue earned two victories Tuesday to remain unbeaten at the Pan Continental curling championships. Gushue, from St. John's, N.L.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta has applied for a judicial review of Ottawa's exemption of the carbon levy on home heating oil.

CALGARY — Precision Drilling Corp. says it earned $39 million in the third quarter of 2024, nearly double what it earned in the same time period last year. Canada's largest oil-and-gas drilling rig company says the profit works out to $2.

CALGARY — Alberta's top court has upheld the conviction of a Calgary pastor for his role in protests against COVID-19 public health measures that blocked Alberta's main Canada-U.S. border crossing for more than two weeks.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a potential budget deficit next year is not off the table as oil prices sit below what was projected.

CALGARY — The union that represents mechanics and labourers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. has filed for conciliation in its contract talks with the railway company.