From Oklahoma to Alberta and around the globe, oil storage is filling quickly — flowing into tank farms, tanker ships and salt caverns. “Or swimming pools,” as one analyst joked last week. The laughs are rare these days. Oil prices have plunged, companies are slashing spending and demand for fuel is being crushed by an epic economic lockdown due…

Jason Robertson is living in a hotel after the four-bedroom house he was renting burned down on April 7. The journeyman from Wetaskiwin, Alta., along with his three-year-old son and his girlfriend — who was visiting with her daughter and grandson — weren’t harmed in the fire, but most of the house was either burned beyond…

Social media platforms have taken unprecedented steps to fight misinformation online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some critics say they could still do more. Facebook, Twitter and Google/YouTube have ramped up their efforts to police content that contains incorrect or harmful information, taking down the worst offenders, attaching warnings to content that has been fact-checked and…

Edmonton·Video Dr. Peter Silverstone, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, explains the different thinking between generations. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Apr 19, 2020 8:12 PM MT | Last Updated: April 20 How are people from different generations dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Peter Silverstone, a professor of psychiatry at…

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The union representing tens of thousands of health workers in Alberta is slamming the provincial government over the delivery of what it calls unsafe surgical masks. Source link…

Alberta Health Services says it’s creating a focus group to review and advise on new personal protective equipment (PPE) it’s procuring in the fight against COVID-19, as health-care workers continue to raise concerns about the quality of new masks obtained from a manufacturer based in China. On Saturday, CBC News spoke to nurses and doctors who say…