Beyond Local

The funding is supporting projects including electric bicycle and walking food tours in Banff and Canmore, a year-round glamping experience in Kananaskis, and the development of destination marketing organizations’ tourism plans and strategies.

Declaring Sept 30 as a civic holiday continues work towards truth and reconciliation, according to the City of Edmonton.

“The artists focus on matrilineal knowledge systems and the responsibilities of women as knowledge keepers and stewards of ancestral cultural practices. It draws our attention to the globally relevant conversations that we’re having in Canada right now about decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenous ways of being and knowing.”

“It recognizes there’s a baseline for what we need to know and then there’s specialties. We’re trying to give each region, each team that has their own specialty areas to have that base level knowledge."

Province's Affordable Housing Partnership Program awards Westwinds Communities $227,000 which will go toward a project of 10 units currently under construction in Drake Landing.

“Everything is crazy expensive right now,” Thind said. “Cochrane is not like Calgary. It’s not a huge city. The problem is, it’s not in the town’s hands.”

U of A scientists find an unexpected sex difference in how a particular gene and vascular health interact to affect memory loss.

A flavourful vegetarian pho starts with broth that is simmered and infused with fragrant, warming spices, including star anise, cinnamon and black peppercorns.

The benefits of a healthy diet go beyond physical appearance.

NEW YORK (AP) — You can see right through this little aquarium fish from Thailand: Its skin is almost completely transparent. But when the light hits it just right, its body flickers with shimmering rainbow colors.