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EDMONTON -- It's budget day in Alberta, and the overarching question is not whether the budget will show a deficit, but exactly how many billions of dollars in the red it will be.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government says it plans to increase physician spending by more than 20 per cent in its upcoming budget.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is putting nine questions to a provincewide referendum on Oct. 19, including proposals to restrict social services from some immigrants.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to address the province in a TV broadcast Thursday evening and is expected to discuss immigration.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to address the province in a TV broadcast Thursday evening and is expected to discuss immigration.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is hitting pause on a recent policy change cutting off health coverage for some temporary foreign workers, including youth coming to Canada on working vacations.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government says it will bring in the new budget on Feb. 26 and is warning it will be a tough one.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's recently announced effort to add physician shifts to help triage patients in crowded emergency rooms has been delayed.
EDMONTON -- A former United Conservative member of Alberta's legislature says he will remain an Independent MLA when the house reconvenes in February.
EDMONTON -- The operator of one of the province's largest long-term care homes says it's working to address serious concerns about an infestation of mice and mice droppings.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's emergency room doctors, in a letter to the provincial government, have detailed front-line horror stories of preventable deaths along with indignities and suffering by patients in what one physician describes as "death zones."
EDMONTON -- An Alberta school division has launched an investigation after the premier shared on social media an audio recording, purportedly of a teacher disparaging the province's conservative political culture.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to face a "crisis" of overcrowded hospitals head-on as doctors plead for emergency measures to help cope.
EDMONTON -- Doctors who have been pleading for help as Edmonton hospitals are being overwhelmed by patients say Alberta's health-care leadership is missing in action.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the American capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro underlines the urgency of building oil pipelines to export Canadian oil to new markets.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA -- The leader of a rival party to Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservatives says they're scrambling to organize on the chance Smith tries to undercut them by calling a spring election.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA -- Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz is quitting cabinet and says she will also soon be leaving the legislature altogether.
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA -- The Alberta government in 2025 completed the final legal foundations of its new health-care system -- and Premier Danielle Smith says she's working in 2026 to prove it was worth it.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's hand-picked panel re-examining the province's relationship with Ottawa says it's time to ditch the RCMP and hold a provincewide referendum on quitting the Canada Pension Plan.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is hiking the cost to apply for a citizen-initiated referendum by 5,000 per cent, saying it's about making sure applicants are serious.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's justice minister is the latest member of Premier Danielle Smith's caucus to face a citizen recall petition.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA -- Alberta's governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the fourth time in under two months they have used the Charter's notwithstanding clause.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government moved to the final stage of debate early Wednesday on legislation that, if passed, would see the Charter's notwithstanding clause invoked four times in less than two months.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government moved one step closer late Tuesday night to passing legislation invoking the Charter's notwithstanding clause for a fourth time in this sitting.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government was poised Tuesday to pass legislation invoking the Charter's notwithstanding clause for a fourth time in this sitting.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says those seeking an independence referendum should not have "gatekeepers," like the courts, standing in their way.
EDMONTON -- Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government's decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override teachers' rights and shut down a provincewide strike.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is urging Crown prosecutors to think twice about charging someone who acts to defend themselves or others in their own homes.
EDMONTON -- Falling oil prices and trade troubles continue to threaten Alberta's finances, but the province's deficit is expected to shrink only slightly.
EDMONTON -- Falling oil prices and trade troubles continue to threaten Alberta's finances, but the province's deficit is expected to shrink only slightly.
EDMONTON -- Alberta is moving to insulate its Crown investment corporation from potential legal liabilities and protect companies in the province from lawsuits accusing them of greenwashing.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government has tabled a bill that would open the door for surgeons to charge patients for privately-delivered procedures while keeping a foot in the public system and billing taxpayers.
EDMONTON -- The head of the Alberta Teachers' Association says a report on classroom aggression and complexity largely vindicates its longstanding calls for more support and money to fix the problem.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is limiting what behaviour professional regulators can police in the name of strengthening freedom of expression.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is limiting what behaviour professional regulators can police in the name of strengthening freedom of expression.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith revealed her government's plan to introduce legislation to let doctors choose to work in the public and private health systems simultaneously.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is on the hunt for a new auditor general, but the Opposition NDP says they're forcing him out before he finishes investigating a health-care contracting scandal.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is starting to roll out compensation for the families of children who were kept out of classrooms during a three-week teachers strike.
EDMONTON -- Alberta doctors say the province's effort to save money on COVID-19 vaccines could end up costing taxpayers far more in public health-care costs.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government is providing more details about a bill it says will prevent long ballot protests during provincial elections.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is planning to introduce legislation this fall to limit who can run in provincial elections.
EDMONTON -- The head of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce says a provincewide teachers strike is putting a strain on businesses.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government says it expected to receive a final report Wednesday from the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts, but it won't be immediately released.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government says it expects to receive a final report today from the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts.
EDMONTON -- Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government says Ottawa is dodging responsibility by not standing behind the province's planned proposal for a pipeline that would bring oil to the B.C. coast.
EDMONTON -- The former Alberta politician trying to keep the province from splitting up with Canada says his campaign is zeroing in on its goal, but he's not slowing down.
EDMONTON -- A newborn in Alberta has died of measles marking the province's first death from the disease this year, the government said Thursday.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says those who question her rationale for the government's law restricting health care for transgender youth need to read up on puberty.
EDMONTON -- Doctors and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups challenging Alberta laws affecting transgender people say they aren't backing down, after learning the province plans to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause.
EDMONTON -- Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel, aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa, was spurred to take action in Grande Prairie Wednesday.
EDMONTON -- Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel is in Grande Prairie tonight to brainstorm potential referendum questions aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa.
EDMONTON -- Critics are questioning what problem the Alberta government's move to add mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination.
EDMONTON -- With a provincewide teachers strike looming, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says their union has a stark choice between heftier pay hikes and more teachers.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her latest meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney has inspired optimism and he is demonstrating a "real shift" from the previous Justin Trudeau-led Liberals.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to reiterate her policy demands face-to-face with Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday while he's in Edmonton to meet with his Liberal caucus.
EDMONTON -- While the Alberta government is urging teachers to get back to the bargaining table to get out of an ongoing stalemate, their union says the province needs to move beyond reiterating a deal that teachers have already rejected.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government says it will fight hard to defend a court challenge to its school pronoun law.
EDMONTON -- Alberta parents are bracing for a potential teacher strike or lockout as shifting provincial policies on books and sports also add confusion and chaos to the school year.
EDMONTON -- Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel in Fort McMurray Tuesday night drew more approval than pushback, and the premier insisted Ottawa is the rightful target of much of the criticism coming her way.