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While he insisted the government remains focused on steering the country through the pandemic, LeBlanc noted an election could be triggered at any time in a minority Parliament.

“We’ll continue to fight to defend our exclusive provincial power to regulate our resource industries.”

Canmore RCMP are investigating after an Alberta Health Services vehicle had the air let out of two of its tires in an "intentional act to disable the emergency vehicle."

"I truly want to move forward together for the sake of patients and all Albertans," he wrote in a letter to Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Paul Boucher.

In a speech Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, Champagne said he hopes a COVID-19 vaccine can be produced at home in the "medium term" as a federal investment strategy begins to bear fruit.

"The number one riskiest activity is living in a household with someone who's infectious," Hinshaw said. "There is no other activity that even comes close to that proportion of our new cases.”

Congratulations to RMO photojournalist Evan Buhler for winning the prestigious 2021 Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.

Of the 143 rules and regulations eased in Canada, 54 were in Alberta, which suspended all monitoring and reporting requirements — except those pertaining to water — for the province's resource industries.

St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper describes changes to the new medical assistance in dying (MAID) law that include allowing mental illness to be a sole underlying cause as the height of recklessness.

Alberta Energy spokesman Kavi Bal said the government was unable to comment on the road density findings. All exploration is subject to cleanup timelines, he said.