Three of the 11 RCMP officers in the Mayerthorpe detachment are now in self-quarantine after two people they arrested deliberately coughed on them.  RCMP said a  20-year-old man was exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 when he “purposely coughed into an officer’s face.” When a 35-year-old woman visited the suspect in hospital, a police news release said,…

This column is an opinion by Marcus Sixta, a family lawyer, mediator, and founder of Crossroads Law, a family law firm operating in British Columbia and Alberta. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ. With courts closed across the country, separated and divorced couples are facing the prospect of not having access to a judge…

Staff at Edmonton Public Schools are likely to hear this week whether they are out of a job as the province asks school divisions to cut $14 million for May and June as students learn from home.  Board Chair Trisha Estabrooks said administration is figuring out where to find budgets savings, demanded by the province two weeks…

For decades, the Pro Coro Canada professional choir has performed at Edmonton’s Winspear Centre on Good Friday. Like scores of other events, that concert was cancelled this year. With public health restrictions preventing group gatherings, choral concerts and rehearsals are all but impossible during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re suspended for the foreseeable future,” Pro Coro’s…

Five new Alberta schools once destined to be built as public-private partnerships will now be publicly run construction projects, Alberta’s infrastructure minister said. Minister Prasad Panda said in a Tuesday interview the provincial government will borrow money to get construction going more quickly on two new K-9 schools in Edmonton, along with new schools in…

A University of Alberta researcher wants to hear from thousands of Alberta doctors, in hopes of learning what they’re going through during the COVID-19 pandemic and what kind of improvements are needed to deal with future epidemics. Led by Nicola Cherry, an occupational epidemiologist and professor of medicine, the study is modelled after a similar…