Alberta Health and Wellness announced on Friday that vaccination clinics for the H1N1 vaccination throughout the Province would be temporarily suspended. The Calgary Flames reportedly jumped the queue just prior...
H1N1 Clinics have been overwhelmed across the country this week. The vaccine was approved by Health Canada a week ago and clinics jumped into action. In some cases, people waited up to eight hours...
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The newly elected leader of the upstart party Wildrose Alliance told a jam packed conference room in Edmonton, "My No. 1 job is to turn Alberta into a real democracy again," Danielle Smith as won the...
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The Progressive Conservative Party, has been in power for 40 years in Alberta. The primary reason is that there hasn't been a viable opposition, especially in the leadership department of both the...
Barry Artiste Op.Ed Guess this story shows why you can't put the city into a country boy! Or is this Lost in Political Translation? "Canada’s had some great divides in its history. French versus English. East...
Greenpeace activists have shut down a 155,000 barrel a day operation in Shell's Albian Sands mine just north of Fort McMurray, which is located in northern Alberta, Canada. The 25 activists from Canada, the U.S....
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RCMP have charged one man and are seeking another in a$100M alleged Ponzi scheme in Canada."Authorities say a second suspect believed to be involved in the scheme -- identified as 66-year-old Gary Allen Sorenson -- is currently at large, possibly in Honduras. Milowe Allen...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed Gee I can think of way more than 20 questions people ask, including one I got when in Ferndale, Washington in the USA at a sporting goods shop. I wanted to have a special order shipped to...
Barry Artiste Op.Ed What is so friggin complicated about the hearings? Everyone deaf, dumb and blind? You have this guy dead to rights! Ship him off pronto! In Vangroovy over 90% of grow ops...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed One can only hope that OJ Simpson doesn't offer advice on the "Find the Killer Reward Scheme" to the Jenkins Family. Though tragic to the family losing a son, one must look at the facts...
The CFIA has issued a warning of possible Salmonella contamination to Sprouts Alive Baby Onion Sprouts with a Best Before Date of September 4, 2009.The Alive Baby Onion Sprouts were sold in Alberta, but may also have been sold in British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. "...
Alberta is expected to run a 1.1 Billion Dollar deficit in Health Care this year. The Government has hired a Health Care Reorganizer, Mr. Duckett, from Australia to revamp our system. In the meantime...
A victory for freedom. This tool is surveilance plain and simple and police forces co-opting power companies to eaves drop on their customers is offensive and goes going way too far. I am sure the...
Three men, David Fraser, James Fraser and Jeremy Rowlands, were arrested and fined $5,000CAD on Monday after posting a video of themselves shooting ducklings Youtube. The incident, which took place outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, generated an unprecedented public reaction...
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The Alberta Tar Sands have been in the news for some time, and has been kept alive by environmental groups. Both former Vice President Al Gore and President Obama have referred to oil coming from the Tar...