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Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down with oil and gas executives in Calgary Sunday to discuss partnerships and to get their input for his plans to make Canada an energy superpower. Carney, in his first visit to Calgary since being sworn in as prime minister, held a closed door roundtable with more than two dozen members of the energy sector...
CALGARY -- Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down with oil and gas executives in Calgary Sunday to discuss partnerships and to get their input for his plans to make Canada an energy superpower.
CALGARY -- Canada's new energy minister walked into the lion's den Friday and spoke to oil and gas executives in Calgary about Ottawa's plans to turn the country into an energy superpower.
CALGARY -- Canada's new energy minister walked into the lion's den in Calgary and spoke to oil and gas executives about Ottawa's plans to turn the country into an energy superpower.
CALGARY -- Canada's new energy minister walked into the lion's den in Calgary and spoke to oil and gas executives about Ottawa's plans to turn the country into an energy superpower.
CALGARY -- The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is long overdue.
CALGARY -- Corey Hogan was bleary-eyed and a little nervous the day after winning the only Liberal seat in Calgary.
CALGARY -- A commercial kitchen company pleaded guilty Thursday to four bylaw offences after a massive E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill.
CALGARY -- A commercial kitchen company in Calgary pleaded guilty Thursday to four bylaw offences after a massive E. coli outbreak at daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill.
CALGARY -- A commercial kitchen company in Calgary has pleaded guilty to four charges after a massive E. coli outbreak at daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill.
Visitors to the Liberal campaign office in Calgary East are greeted by a smiling picture of one of the longest serving Conservative MPs. And next to it is an ornate green vase of blown glass that contains some of the ashes of Deepak Obhrai. The vase, the picture and the Liberal campaign office all belong to Obhrai’s daughter, Priti Obhrai-Martin...
DRUMHELLER -- A plan to send Tyra the tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller, Alta., into proverbial extinction has sparked demands that she be spared.
KYIV -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal. Trudeau is in Kyiv with a dozen other world leaders to mark the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
KYIV -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal.
KYIV -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged 25 light armoured vehicles to Ukraine and to provide the country with $5 billion in funds from seized Russian assets.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged 25 light armoured vehicles to Ukraine and to provide the country with $5 billion in funds from seized Russian assets. He is in Kyiv alongside a dozen other world leaders today to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion.
KYIV -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged 25 light armoured vehicles to Ukraine and to provide the country with $5 billion in seized Russian assets.
KYIV --Canada will send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday at a peace and security summit in Kyiv.
KYIV -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to be in Kyiv on Monday along with a dozen other world leaders as Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of that country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to be in Kyiv on Monday along with a dozen other world leaders as Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of that country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed during a news conference in Kyiv Sunday evening that he will meet with Trudeau in person, one of 13 foreign leaders attending a summit on...
Kyiv--Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to be in Ukraine on Monday for a summit of world leaders on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of that country.
The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an attempt to resume executions.
CALGARY -- A public fatality inquiry into the stabbing death of a Calgary caseworker five years ago has heard that the killer was absent from the facility for weeks at a time before the attack occurred.
A man who attacked a homeless woman and set her on fire in Saskatchewan has been granted statutory release from prison with special conditions.
CALGARY -- An Alberta judge has found a former Calgary city councillor guilty of fraud, but not guilty of breach of trust.
CALGARY -- A judge is expected to hand down his verdict today on whether a former Calgary city councillor is guilty of fraud and breach of trust.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- One of two men who became the faces of a blockade at a key Alberta border crossing in 2022 offered a public apology Thursday at the end of sentencing arguments.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- Two men who became the faces of a blockade at a key Alberta border crossing in 2022 need to do jail time to send a message that actions have consequences, a Crown prosecutor told court Thursday.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- Two men who became the faces of a protest at a key Alberta border crossing in 2022 need to do prison time to send a message that actions have consequences, a Crown prosecutor told court Thursday.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- The sentencing hearing for three leaders of the Coutts, Alta., border blockade is now a sentencing hearing for two.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- A sentencing hearing is set to start today for three men convicted of helping co-ordinate a blockade at the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts, Alta., in protest of COVID-19 rules and restrictions.
CALGARY -- Some people say it with flowers. Some with an engagement ring.
CALGARY -- A Calgary army reserve officer was killed in an ice-climbing accident in eastern British Columbia over the holidays.
CALGARY -- A Calgary army reserve officer was killed in an ice-climbing accident in eastern British Columbia over the holidays.
CALGARY -- With timelines tightening, Calgary city council is asking for an urgent meeting with the Alberta government to discuss a reworked plan to build a multibillion-dollar light-rail-transit line connecting the city's southeast to downtown.
CFB SUFFIELD, ALBERTA -- A sprawling military training base more than twice the size of New York City in southeastern Alberta appears to be a shadow of its former self while its future use remains up in the air.
CROWSNEST PASS, Alta. -- A mayor in southwestern Alberta is hoping for an immediate meeting with Premier Danielle Smith to discuss a coal project his community has voted in favour of being built.
CROWSNEST PASS, Alta. -- Heavy snow didn't stop a steady stream of voters in Crowsnest Pass from casting ballots Monday in favour of bringing King Coal back to this scenic rocky patch of Alberta's southwest.
It's been more than 40 years since coal was king in the scenic Crowsnest Pass of southwestern Alberta, but a referendum vote Monday could sway a contentious debate on bringing it back. The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, home to about 6,000, is asking residents to say yes or no to a straightforward question: "Do you support the development and operations...