This column is an opinion from Regan Boychuk, the co-founder and lead researcher of the Alberta Liability Disclosure Project. In a speech at an oil lobby event on April 7, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney told industry insiders that oilfield reclamation may no longer be just the liability of oil and gas companies, but might also be…

Long-haul truckers are playing an important role in bringing supplies into Canada, but some people are concerned not enough is being done to ensure they aren’t transporting COVID-19 with them. “They get the four-question screening … There’s no actual physical scan. There’s not a temperature scan,” said Jim Willett, mayor of Coutts, Alta. His village…

An Edmonton musician is racking up the views on YouTube thanks in part to the prime minister. During his daily news conference on Tuesday, Justin Trudeau uttered a word that makes some people cringe. “If people want to wear a mask, that is OK,” he said. “It protects others more than it protects you, because it…

Canada told Iran this week to hold off indefinitely from going forward with the much-anticipated download and analysis of flight recorders recovered from the wreckage of downed Flight 752 that killed dozens of Canadians.  Hassan Rezaeifar, the head of the Iranian investigation team, said he invited representatives from eight countries to travel to a laboratory in Europe…

A prominent LGBTQ advocate is taking her complaint against the Edmonton Police Service to the province’s human rights commission after a police dispatcher repeatedly misgendered her and assumed her transgender friend was a sex worker.  Marni Panas says a year after that phone call, and despite an offer to meet with the EPS employee involved…

Shantay you stay — at home, that is. The closure of bars and clubs due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left the LGBTQ+ community without spaces to congregate and build community, and drag queens without a stage to perform. For Mona Moore, a Calgary queen and winner of Miss Canada Continental 2020, that means instead of slaying the crowd…