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Mental Health challenges affect farmers and there is support available.

The site where the central facility will be built will collect the brine, lithium will be extracted and battery-grade lithium salts will be produced for incorporation into the North American battery supply chain.

The government on Thursday announced a sweeping promise to make groceries, children's clothing, Christmas trees, restaurant meals and more free from GST/HST between Dec. 14 and Feb. 15.

On the outside, the new house just east of Edmonton in Sherwood Park looks like any other Canadian suburban home.

Beauty and Beast running November 21 to Dec. 1 at the Arden Theatre faces problems with fake ticket accounts.

Marie Renaud, Alberta's community and social services critic, said the province is slipping behind the Canadian government and all provinces but Prince Edward Island.

The Liberal government plans to temporarily lift the federal sales tax off a slew of items just in time for Christmas and send cheques to millions of Canadians this spring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday.

Banff councillor Hugh Pettigrew has had his sexual assault charges withdrawn by the Crown and entered into a common law peace bond.

The chunk is “older than anything you would ever find on the surface of the Earth,” Christopher Herd, a University of Alberta professor who curates the university’s 2,400-specimen meteorite collection, said Tuesday from Edmonton.

Longtime Rotarian Steve McEachern left his estate to Rotary International. His widow says he wished to change this before his death.