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The federal government must appoint Alberta justices immediately to address an unprecedented backlog in Alberta courts. Last October Court of Queen’s Chief Justice Neil Wittmann said the courts were at the breaking point.

Hockey coaches get fired for three reasons: The team is losing. The owners are often rich guys with big egos who have no business running a sports franchise though they may be good at land development or whatever.

The fires in Fort McMurray seem far away to many local residents, but the dangers lurk in the underbrush along the trails that snake through many St. Albert neighbourhoods. St.

Sunday morning in the capital region was windy but beautiful, with trees covered in spring fresh green leaves rippling against a perfect blue sky.

The wildfire that has devastated Fort McMurray is on a scale that is hard to comprehend. More than 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday just hours before a catastrophic wildfire destroyed more than 1,600 houses and businesses.

When Ralph Klein’s government took property taxes away from individual school boards more than 20 years ago, the intention was to create a system of equal funding for all of the children in the province.

Photographs of volunteers Mary-Patricia O'Neill and Mavis McKay accompanying an article entitled “These volunteers are tops!” on pages 44 and 45 in the Wednesday, April 20 edition of the St.

The number of cases of sexually transmitted disease in Alberta is rising at an alarming rate. Last year cases of gonorrhea in Alberta were up 80 per cent from 2014, the highest in 30 years. Cases of syphilis have doubled since 2014. Dr.

The time of stating the obvious is over. That is, Alberta’s energy industry is the biggest part of Canada’s energy industry and a major component of its economy.

A voluntary levy to developers to pay for community infrastructure seems like a good idea on paper.