Alberta News

“If that's the case of how they do their business, in that sense, we feel that there is a coverup on health issues, and on environmental impacts in our region.”

Federal and provincial health officials in Alberta are trying to cover up "the most destructive project on Earth," aboriginal leaders said Friday during the release of a report on the oilsands sector. via Canada.com

“Yet the dinosaurs from Mexico have remained a mystery”

Cretaceous-era duck-billed dinosaur discovery opens new window into time when much of continent was submerged A new species of dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is giving scientists fresh insights into the ancient ... via Innovations-report.com

“We're not afraid to try and do things that others haven't done before. Others have had years to apply, and haven't. Just because it hasn't been done before doesn't mean it can't be done now.”

In just over a year, Canada could have the first TV network that broadcasts over the air exclusively in high definition and free of charge to viewers, Toronto businessman John Bitove told the federal regulator ... via Canoe

“Basically they had...lacerations to the ear, so there may be some need to reattach that ear.”

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS HINTON, Alta. - A bus carrying workers home from a shift at an Alberta coal mine flipped onto its side in the ditch after swerving to avoid a moose late Tuesday night. via CFRB

Police in Edmonton, Alberta, were searching Tuesday for two trailers holding almost a half million dollars worth of liquor and frozen chicken, local media said. via KLOU-FM Saint Louis

- The leader of the Alberta Greens is boldly predicting his low-budget party has momentum and a "legitimate shot" at winning at least two seats in the coming provincial election.

George Read says the Green party has grown exponentially since its birth in 1990 and will definitely increase its support in the March 3 election.

He says two star candidates in the rural ridings of Lacombe-Ponoka and Drayton Valley-Calmar could potentially become Canada's first Green members of the legislature. Read more

“Somehow these four Canadians and a guy from Arkansas came to define musical Americana like no other group before or since”

Amy Winehouse triumphed despite rehab while outspoken rapper/producer Kanye West gave an emotional tribute to his late mother Sunday as both performers took home multiple Grammy Awards during a splashy 50th ... via CANOE

“How do you move forward when you're constantly yearning for the deepest meaning of life to smile at you and give you a hug or an 'I love you, Daddy'? How do you find peace in the constant aching for the loved ones you lost so horribly?”

- A man who could become the first person in Canada to be jailed indefinitely for impaired driving doesn't fit the criteria to be declared a dangerous offender, his lawyer said Thursday.

Raymond Charles Yellowknee pleaded guilty in 2006 to four counts of impaired driving causing death, as well as to criminal flight from police and driving while suspended. He was drunk and driving a stolen pickup truck when he slammed into a car carrying Misty Chalifoux, 28, her daughters Trista, 9, and Larissa, 6, and her stepdaughter Michelle Lisk, 13, on Jan. 20, 2006, near Slave Lake in northwestern Alberta. Read more

“What you need to be aware of, Tom, is that you're also a suspect in the following homicide investigations: Bernadette Ahenakew, Edna Bernard, Debbie Lake, Monique Pitre, Melissa Munch, Sylvia Ballantyne and Rachelle Quinney”

An Alberta man charged with murdering two prostitutes was a suspect in the deaths of six other women and the disappearance of two others. via Orleans Star / Weekly Journal

“Nice cat, look in the microwave”

- A group of anti-animal cruelty protesters stood outside court in Camrose, Alta., as a judge put the case of several teens accused of using a microwave oven to kill a family cat over until March 6.

It's alleged that three 15-year-olds and a 13-year-old broke into a Camrose home on Dec. 30, and put the family cat named Princess in the microwave.

They were charged with unlawfully killing an animal, unlawfully causing pain or suffering to an animal and various break and enter offences.

The protesters have been lobbying for Ottawa to pass effective legislation for crimes against animals. Read more

A Canadian woman narrowly avoided getting hit by several chunks of ice that crashed through her bedroom ceiling Thursday, likely dropped from a passing airplane, officials said. via The Journal Times

“If we get the funding in place and the permitting goes as we hope it will, we're hopeful that this time next year we'll be turning some dirt”

Enbridge Inc. , a major Canadian oil and natural gas pipeline company, is heading a group of 19 energy industry players in a project that will inject their carbon dioxide emissions into underground saltwater ... via Sympatico Finance

“The majority that is grown in the city is not for Calgary”

Two busts have netted cops one of the largest-ever pot seizures in the city and taken more than $4 million worth of drugs off the street, but that won't even make a dent in the local supply, said the head of ... via Calgary Sun

“It's a residence that's obviously not been randomly selected”

Gun shots rang out in the city's northeast last night, sending three people to hospital, one of them fighting for his life. via Canoe

- The baby's name is Miracle, and her mother believes that's exactly what happened when her failing heart required emergency surgery at the very moment she was giving birth at an Edmonton hospital last week.

Roxanne Follett, a 36-year-old nurse from Grande Prairie, Alta., had tears welling up in her eyes today as she described how it was a very special birth to begin with since she had gone through in vitro fertilization just to get pregnant.

The obstetrician who delivered the baby by caesarean section, Dr. Billy Wong, says it felt like an episode of ER or Grey's Anatomy while the two surgeries were being performed. Read more

“I believe that this morning will be the dawn of a new era in education in Alberta”

A landmark deal to bring labour peace to education will go ahead after six school boards that hadn't ratified new five-year agreements with their teachers agreed to binding arbitration or accepted settlements. via Edmonton Journal