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Dow said the project would more than triple its ethylene and polyethylene capacity from the Fort Saskatchewan site.

Eight critical care nursing officers — from Ontario and Nova Scotia — have been sent to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Public reporting of schools with at least two COVID-19 cases or outbreaks started Wednesday. Contact tracing is to resume next Tuesday when students return to classes after the Thanksgiving long weekend. 

RCMP Eastern District Supt. and Barrhead Detachment commander hope Nolan Tuininga and Quinn Meunier seriously consider a career in law enforcement

There is one open Senate seat available. Albertans have the opportunity to choose between the 13 candidates who will then be recommended to the federal government. There are no guarantees the elected Senate candidate will be chosen.

“I think there’s still this preconceived assumption that fish and wildlife have come and they’ve taken the bear to some kind of bear utopia where there’s lots of food and no people and everything’s happy, but the reality is bear utopia doesn’t exist.”

"There's a morphing for sure from what our core services are to the gaps that we find ourselves standing in," Sturgeon County Mayor Alanna Hnatiw said. 

Wilkinson to stick with his initial ruling on Vista project near Hinton.

An open letter from more than two dozen archeologists addressed to the B.C. Archeology Branch criticized the Coastal GasLink work, saying the company and the B.C. government failed to properly consult the Wet'suwet'en and could lead to the destruction of Indigenous artifacts.

"There are 30 to 40 students at a time that are sick at home from some of these schools. [The government has] ignored education completely, while these outbreaks are raging and kids are getting sick."