Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is scheduled to unveil Friday new help for the struggling oil and gas industry in the province. Watch the Alberta premier speak LIVE here at 11:10 a.m. MT.  Energy Minister Sonya Savage and Environment Minister Jason Nixon will also be at the event, billed in a release as “an announcement about actions…

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted bail to an Alberta man awaiting trial on a string of weapons charges related to a wild police chase in Kelowna which happened after the accused skipped out on a previous release agreement. Justice Gary Weatherill acknowledged the serious nature of the allegations facing Cody Janvier-Charland, along with the troubling…

One of numerous doctors giving up hospital work due to funding changes says even if Alberta delivers extra support for rural physicians, it doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Dr. Samantha Myhr, who works in Pincher Creek, says the fundamental issue is that the government cancelled a master agreement with doctors earlier this year and imposed…

A Syncrude employee and a contract worker have tested positive for COVID-19, but the company says the two were infected off-site and there isn’t an outbreak.  Syncrude spokesperson Will Gibson said the two cases are not related. The Syncrude employee came in contact with someone displaying symptoms of COVID-19, according to Gibson. The employee was not working…

No matter what your COVID-19 pandemic situation, things right now are tough. This week, CBC’s Ariel Fournier helps us navigate maintenance work, and what it means to visit other people’s homes right now. From the CBC business unit, Kyle Bakx walks us through a historic week for oil prices and we hear about a summer staple that…

Premier Jason Kenney is fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. Yet he can’t seem to communicate with Alberta’s teachers. That became evident this week when Kenney and the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) butted heads yet again over the government’s investment arm, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, commonly known as AIMCo. The government is forcing…