Alberta News

EDMONTON — Canada won't play Sweden in a pre-tournament game before the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton because of Sweden's extended quarantine.

CALGARY — The familiar ringing of handbells has gone silent at many Canadian shopping malls this year as the Salvation Army tries to cope with COVID-19 rules at a time of dropping donations.

EDMONTON — Alberta is reporting 904 opioid-related deaths in the first 10 months of 2020, a sobering record surpassing the province's current death count of COVID-19.

EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton say they are investigating the death of a toddler as a homicide. Officers were called to a home in the southeast part of the city on Dec. 6. They say a two-year-old boy was taken to hospital but later died of injuries.

EDMONTON — Kirby Dach has been named captain of Canada's team for the upcoming world junior hockey championship.

CALGARY — A tax evasion case involving former Conservative member of Parliament Rob Anders has been put over to next month. Provincial court Judge Joanne Durant granted an adjournment to Jan.

EDMONTON — The International Ice Hockey Federation says eight players from Germany's team at the world junior hockey championship have tested positive for COVID-19 inside the Edmonton bubble.

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific says it will pilot a new project to build a hydrogen-powered train.

EDMONTON — Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says 30 more patients have died from COVID-19 — the province’s highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. "This is a heartbreaking figure," Dr.