Alberta News

CALGARY — WestJet Airlines Ltd. is dealing with so many employees out sick with the Omicron variant that it is being forced to cut 15 per cent of its scheduled flights through to the end of January.

RED DEER, Alta. — Slovakia's goaltender at the world junior hockey championship says that this year's tournament was "a joke." Simon Latkoczy criticized the event's organizers In a pair of Instagram posts on Thursday.

CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. says the previously announced $1.14-billion deal to sell its stake in Noverco Inc. to a company controlled by the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has closed.

CALGARY — A major Canadian electricity producer is successfully off coal power in this country, nine years ahead of a government deadline. Calgary-based Trans-Alta Corp.

EDMONTON — An NHL scouting job came to Brigette Lacquette at a time when she needed it. She's the first Indigenous woman to scout for an NHL team. Her employer is the Chicago Blackhawks.

EDMONTON — Alberta more than doubled its active COVID-19 case count in a week, while recording its highest single-day increase of new infections.

EDMONTON — The continued forfeiture of games due to the COVID-19 virus ended the world junior men's hockey championship in Alberta after just four days.

EDMONTON — Alberta's energy minister says she has received two reports that will determine the future of coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountain foothills and eastern slopes.

Emergency responders are clearing the scenes of two Canadian Pacific Railway train derailments in Western Canada. CP said in a statement that a freight train carrying potash went off the tracks Tuesday evening near Craven, Sask., northwest of Regina.

BARONS, Alta. — Mounties are on the scene of a train derailment in southern Alberta. RCMP say the Canadian Pacific Rail train had an engine derail at 9:30 a.m. and some empty fuel cars tipped over near Barons, Alta., north of Lethbridge.