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“If we don't start looking at this strategically, as a nation of what can bind us together, I'm afraid it's going to tear us apart. And this isn't politics. This is economics and realities,” said Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland MLA Shane Getson.

Benita Pedersen faces more than $2,000 in fines under the Public Health Act

One amendment would allow people who fear losing mental capacity to make advance requests for an assisted death.

The next phase of Alberta's staged reopening plan could start as soon as March 1 and includes the potential easing of restrictions on banquet halls, indoor fitness and retail.

Canmore-based Alpine Club of Canada suspends hut bookings to protect caribou in Jasper's Tonquin backcountry, where a herd of caribou is on the brink of extinction.

The bill introduced Thursday would also allow for greater use of conditional sentences, such as house arrest, counselling or treatment, for people who do not pose a threat to public safety.

The court has agreed to hear the appeal of Jesse Dallas Hills, who pleaded guilty to four charges from a 2014 incident in Lethbridge, in which he swung a baseball bat and shot at a car with a bolt-action rifle, smashed the window of a vehicle and fired rounds into a family home.

Spokesperson Charles Drouin says the accounts were not compromised but were locked as a preventive measure.

Yurdiga and staff safe after alleged threats at Parliament.

The purchase allows Crescent Point to add a new core area to its main assets and will boost its 2021 production estimate to about 134,000 boe/d, mainly highly profitable crude oil and petroleum liquids, it said.