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Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jason Luan said since January 2016, 350,000 injectable naloxone kits have been supplied and close to 26,000 overdose reversals have been reported in the province.

Search crews have recovered missing 17-year-old Aaron Thir who was swept away by the Beaver River on Saturday.

Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt once again took aim at her party’s leader on social media, after a photo of Premier Jason Kenney dining with colleagues at the Sky Palace, located in a government high-rise office in Edmonton, went viral.

Coun. Natalie Joly said the city’s naming policy should be updated to reflect the city’s commitment to reconciliation, which could mean changing street and neighbourhood names such as Grandin. 

The companies also plan to pilot emerging carbon reduction technologies around oilsands operations, such as direct air capture, which uses a mechanical system to extract carbon dioxide out of the air.

The senior officer responsible for human resources in the Canadian Armed Forces says the military’s repeated failure to address sexual misconduct in the ranks over the years has led to what feels like an "existential threat" to the institution.

The report says that from 2008 to 2015, 75 per cent of the organizations whose charitable status was revoked following division audits were Muslim charities, and that at least another four have had their status pulled since then. Despite these revocations, not a single Muslim charitable organization, or individual associated with one, has been charged with a terrorist financing crime.

It's the third wildfire caused by an exploding target this season, but Travis Fairweather, a wildfire information officer, says not all were necessarily gender reveal parties.

Mayor and council in one of Canada's largest per capital Muslim community condemn family's death

The crowd hushed for a moment of silence at 8.40 p.m., the time of Sunday's attack. Police said the family, out for their early evening stroll, was mown down when a man driving a black Dodge Ram smashed into them on a sidewalk as they waited to cross an intersection in the northwest end of London. The driver, investigators said, targeted the victims because of their Muslim faith.