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Coal built Grande Cache, Alta. But plans for a new mine don't sit well with some residents
As the Summit 14 mine proposal continues to move its way through the approval process, residents of a town 430 kilometres northwest of Edmonton say they're wrestling with how the coal industry and the environment can coexist, unearthing no easy answers, only hard questions.
Top Canadian WHO adviser under fire after downplaying airborne threat of COVID-19
An influential Canadian doctor and top adviser to the World Health Organization has come under fire for controversial comments downplaying the risk of airborne spread of the coronavirus and claiming N95 masks can cause “harms” — including acne.
Lethbridge hopes to cut drugs, crime in new year
Lethbridge topped the Serious Crime Index and had the most used supervised consumption site in North America. The mayor hopes to reverse those trends next year.
Alberta community's concerns about wind farm echo familiar challenges of Canada's energy transition
Residents of a central Alberta community say they have not been treated fairly by a power company that wants to build a wind farm in their community. It's a dispute that will sound familiar in rural Ontario.
Lack of international visitors a chance for Canadians to see nation's tourist attractions this summer
With international visitors staying away due to the pandemic and border restrictions, this will be a summer like no other and presents an opportunity for Canadians to rediscover many world-renowned attractions and locations in their own backyard.
Alberta urged to help high-tech industry 'at risk' from economic crisis
Technology and innovation companies are looking to the UCP government to provide the incentives needed to attract capital investment to a budding sector.
Why some think Canada's beef business needs more smaller players
As big meat plants deal with outbreaks of COVID-19, industry observers, the National Farmers Union and some smaller players within the sector are asking whether Canada needs a greater number of smaller-scale processors to keep the industry strong.
After more than a century in U.K., Blackfoot relics could soon come home
Alberta's Siksika Nation is lobbying a British museum to return clothing and other items that once belonged to Chief Crowfoot, who signed the historic Treaty 7 between Alberta First Nations and the Crown in 1877.
Volunteers upload the stories of Canadians who died liberating the Netherlands in WW II
May 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the German occupation of the Netherlands. Thousands of Canadians died liberating the country, and now Dutch and Canadian volunteers are collecting their pictures and stories and posting them online.
Calgary couple builds business and community with coffee
A Mount Pleasant family is building a business and their community with a unique coffee roasting business run out of their home.