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Alberta health minister promises $158M in budget to recruit front-line health staff

Alberta health minister promises $158M in budget to recruit front-line health staff

EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says there will be $158 million in the upcoming budget to attract more physicians and other health-care professionals to fill gaps in care.
Persistently high inflation makes businesses less competitive: BoC's Beaudry

Persistently high inflation makes businesses less competitive: BoC's Beaudry

EDMONTON — Bank of Canada deputy governor Paul Beaudry says returning inflation to the central bank's two per cent target is critical because high and volatile inflation makes the economy inefficient and businesses less competitive.
Alberta appoints oilpatch veterans to advise government on province's energy future

Alberta appoints oilpatch veterans to advise government on province's energy future

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith will turn to a panel of five oilpatch veterans to advise her government on the future of Alberta's energy industry. The panel will be chaired by David Yager, a longtime writer on the oilpatch.
Liberals introduce 'Milgaard's Law' to create review process for wrongful convictions

Liberals introduce 'Milgaard's Law' to create review process for wrongful convictions

OTTAWA — New legislation introduced in the House of Commons Thursday would make it easier and faster for people who may have been wrongfully convicted to have their cases reviewed.
Senator says more awareness needed of 'invisible crime' of Indigenous identity theft

Senator says more awareness needed of 'invisible crime' of Indigenous identity theft

OTTAWA — Sen. Mary Jane McCallum says Indigenous identity fraud is a damaging but often unseen crime that inflicts serious harm on Indigenous women.
Downed objects most likely benign, Biden says, vowing new rules for U.S. skies

Downed objects most likely benign, Biden says, vowing new rules for U.S. skies

WASHINGTON — The three mysterious objects shot down over the U.S. and Canada earlier this month were likely no danger to national security, President Joe Biden said Thursday as he promised new rules to better govern the continent's crowded skies.
Parks creating wildfire containment line at Protection Mountain

Parks creating wildfire containment line at Protection Mountain

Wildfire experts say a changing climate leading to longer and hotter fire seasons, combined with more than a century of fire suppression, has led to tinder dry and ageing forests that have created perfect conditions for high intensity wildfires to spread quickly.
Moldova: New pro-Western government sworn in, faces 'crises'

Moldova: New pro-Western government sworn in, faces 'crises'

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova's new government led by pro-Western economist Dorin Recean was sworn in Thursday after winning Parliament's approval, as the small former Soviet republic signaled a shift to security concerns amid Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine.
Anti-poverty campaigners rage as energy giants rake in cash

Anti-poverty campaigners rage as energy giants rake in cash

LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty campaigners fumed Thursday after the parent of Britain’s biggest home energy supplier said earnings more than tripled last year as consumers struggled to pay soaring utility bills .
City of Airdrie to consider feasibility of implementing Clean Energy Improvement Program

City of Airdrie to consider feasibility of implementing Clean Energy Improvement Program

“I think it’s an exciting opportunity. Calgary was the latest one and Edmonton is already there [to implement the program],” said Brown during the meeting. “I thought it’d be a really great if Airdrie stepped up.” 
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