The latest: What you need to know today in Alberta: The Alberta economy is being battered by the pandemic, and the government has authorized the finance minister to borrow up to $25 billion to deal with the crisis. The NDP supports the move, but has suggestions on how that money should be spent.  On Friday,…

The province is prepared to take every possible step to protect Albertans from a coming “terrible economic storm,” Premier Jason Kenney said Thursday — but for many, it won’t be enough. “We cannot save every business that is going to be distressed right now,” Kenney said during a Facebook livestream. “What makes me emotional and…

Jane Hugo and her husband Daniel, expecting their first child, had prepared for a water birth in an Edmonton hospital. When that hospital stopped offering labour and delivery and hospitals across Alberta started restricting visitors, the couple decided to change course. “We realized we couldn’t have as much control over the environment,” said Hugo, who gave…

It may be a cliché, but what was supposed to be a dream day for many couples has indeed become a nightmare, as the wedding industry scrambles to comply with COVID-19 regulations.  Edmonton couple Stephanie Parsons and Garrick Des Lauriers were planning on getting married April 4. They realized mid-March that their 80 guests wouldn’t…

It was a week unlike any oil markets have seen before. On a day some oil investors are now calling Black Monday, the benchmark price for North American crude — West Texas Intermediate — went negative for the first time as oil traders panicked over a lack of storage and the expiring May futures contract, which are agreements…

The union representing 27,000 front line health-care workers says it is not happy with Alberta Health Services’ handling of casual workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. AHS offers some casual workers 89-day contracts in order to avoid providing the benefits required after three months of full-time employment as stipulated in their collective agreement, says the Health Sciences Association of…