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Kenney says the key metric is the hospitalization rate, which has been well under 300 for three weeks.

The March 9 milestone followed an announcement about the creation of a working group that will see officials from both the provincial and federal government and representatives from key Alberta industries expand carbon capture utilization and storage technologies.

The expansion of Canada's assisted dying regime went into effect Wednesday night after the Senate accepted a revised version of Bill C-7.

Toby Boulet sent an email this week to United Conservative MLA RJ Sigurdson saying he's concerned the politician's private member's bill on organ and tissue donation isn't being considered this spring.

“Vehicles will be turned around when the parking lot is full and you won’t be allowed to stop and wait for a spot,” said Jed Cochrane, visitor experience manager for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay. “We think shuttles are the best way to come up and see those busy places.”

A variant first identified in the U.K. "is spreading in many different contexts and many different settings and we're seeing higher attack rates than we typically do in settings where people are exposed," Hinshaw said.

Crown prosecutors have dropped all but one charge against James Coates and have agreed to his release without bail conditions, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said Wednesday

Local social media groups were buzzing after a post circulated on March 16 detailing an attempted abduction near Winners in Okotoks.

"Albertans will tell us how they want to see coal development – if they want to see coal development – and, if they want to see coal development, where it will be," Sonya Savage said Tuesday.

"It’s not a terribly unusual reaction from a cougar to see an animal of that size as  a prey species … it’s obviously concerning that it happened so close to people," said Alberta Parks conservation officer Nick Dykshoorn.