Beyond Local

"Life is never perfect but I think it is a good time to be a farmer," 56-year-old Andre Harpe said during a break from seeding his 5,000-acre farm in Alberta's Peace Region.

AHS says Kevin Johnston must stay at least 100 metres away from health officers and must not publish any threats or hate speech directed at them.

"Ecojustice has failed to show that the (order in council creating the inquiry) was enacted on a bad faith basis or for other egregious reasons," Horner said in her decision Friday.

“Absolutely under no circumstances should you feed any wildlife … we need everybody contributing to the effort to keep the wild in wildlife," said Dan Rafla, a human-wildlife management specialist with Banff National Park.

"I did not reveal which way I was voting. I didn't want to, you know, put my finger on the scale, but I did express my disappointment with some of the conduct."

“When you look at the availability of landscape, it's not really this notion that we can build resorts in every corner of the province. It's about the idea that each area is geographically unique, the biodiversity within that region is worth conserving and celebrating and sharing. You enhance people's attitudes towards conservation when you experience these things.”

UCP caucus leader Todd Loewen resigns, asks for Premier Kenney’s resignation

MLA Todd Loewen says there's "dysfunction within the government."

Alberta Fish and Wildlife officials suspect the bear involved in the fatal attack on David Lertzman was a mature female grizzly, but so far the bruin has evaded all capture attempts.

An additional nine kilometres of wildlife exclusion fencing on the Trans-Canada Highway west of the Banff townsite has been fitted with an electric wire to discourage bears from climbing the fence and getting onto the deadly highway.