Beyond Local

The national unemployment rate fell to 8.2 per cent, the lowest level since March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and down from the 9.4 per cent recorded in January.

Several people sent to Okotoks address through fake Kijiji ad.

The 911 levy is expected to bring in $41 million per year, half the cost of the upgrades, and municipalities will need to foot the bill for the other half.

The bill is intended to bring the law into compliance with a 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling which struck down a provision that allows assisted dying only for intolerably suffering individuals whose natural death is "reasonably foreseeable."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in 2015 to lift all drinking-water advisories by this March. In December, Miller announced that deadline would be missed.

“This wolf began to show signs of dispersal over the past six months, as it first travelled south into Spray Valley Provincial Park, and into British Columbia, before finally venturing further south."

Treasury Department officials are currently studying the feasibility of Alberta going it alone on a provincial plan.

On Monday, Premier Jason Kenney told the house during question period that his government will sue the U.S. government to recoup the money under legacy rules tied to the old North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

Julian says the Conservatives have adopted a strategy of blocking the government legislative agenda, no matter the bill – a strategy he fears is giving the Liberals an excuse to go to the polls arguing that they need a majority to get things done.

Shortfall would represent roughly three per cent tax increase for everyone else: Reeve