Two weeks after two of their classmates were struck by a school bus, students at a west Edmonton school staged a traffic safety demonstration on Friday. About 100 students, parents and teachers from the K- 9 Bessie Nichols School marched through the Hamptons neighbourhood, chanting and carrying signs. “This issue is not unique to Bessie Nichols but…

Every time Wayne Driver hears about a terror attack, he’s immediately transported back to 2016 — when his son was killed, allegedly on his way to carry out a suicide bombing. “It will come up the rest of my life. Every shooting, every attack, every bombing of whatever nature, wherever in the world, will have an impact on us…

An immigration lawyer says the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan is likely to be deported to India right after he serves his sentence. Lorne Waldman, who is based in Toronto and is not involved in the case, says there’s little 30-year-old Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, of Calgary, can do…

All it took was one missed game to ruin an entire hockey season for a bantam team in northwestern Alberta. The hockey season is now over but parents, coaches and players in Grande Cache, Alta., are still angry about the missed game, failed attempts to reschedule it, and the decision of the All Peace Hockey League to…

The Alberta Party says it is outraged by racist graffiti that was sprayed on a candidate’s campaign sign in northwest Calgary overnight. Calgary–Edgemont candidate Joanne Gui awoke to find the racist phrases, which prompted party leader Stephen Mandel to come to Calgary and speak out Thursday. “In today’s Alberta there is no place for this. And all…

The Alberta government and the Métis Nation of Alberta have reached a new agreement that has expanded the harvesting area for Métis people in the province. The province is now divided into five regional sections, instead of the previous 25 local harvesting areas. Harvesters in the northern and central regions will be able to hunt, fish…