Alberta’s health ministry is introducing the Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, a new piece of legislation that would allow the province to participate in a national class action lawsuit against more than 40 opioid companies.  “It would demonstrate to the defendants that Alberta has the tools in place to pursue litigation if necessary.…

Edmonton police Chief Dale McFee says the service will look into whether officers are avoiding street checks out of fear of public backlash and accusations of racism.  In the first half of 2019, Edmonton police officers randomly stopped, questioned and documented 3,972 people who were not suspected of a crime. That’s down from 6,104 street…

An Edmonton business owner convicted of charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act will not be allowed to appeal his case.  Bujar Rushiti was seeking to appeal his June 2018 charges, saying he was not given proper legal counsel before pleading guilty.  An appeal is supposed to be filed within a month of conviction,…

The Alberta government is shortening Class 5 basic road tests to 30 minutes from 45, in a bid to test 5,000 more drivers each month and reduce wait times.  The shorter tests, which will begin in January, will not affect the on-road portion of the test which will remain at 25 minutes, but limit pre-test introductions and post-test debrief to five minutes total, the government said…

The former head of the Alberta Energy Regulator, Jim Ellis, knowingly broke provincial compensation law by handing cash bonuses of $21,000 to two senior executives, one of several troubling financial abuses revealed by the auditor general in his latest report. In a report released Thursday, Auditor General Doug Wylie confirmed — as first reported by CBC…

An Edmonton man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years for the “grotesque and horrifying” murder of his former girlfriend. In August 2015, Silva Koshwal stabbed Nadine Skow 101 times, then used a knife to remove some of her organs. Skow was killed in her bedroom during…