Alberta News

The final act of a drama that's loomed over the small Minnesota communities of Chokio and Alberta came to an end in Fergus Falls on Thursday morning, when the communities' former school district business manager was convicted for embezzling approximately $275,000 from the school district over more than a decade.

The Redford administration released its first budget Thursday afternoon focusing heavily on education, infrastructure expansion, healthcare and municipalities, with over $5.2 billion dedicated to municipalities over the next three years.

Albertans with handicaps, families with children in care, the unemployed and staff who work with vulnerable people will all see an increase in financial help from the government after Thursday's budget.

Albertans can expect better service in addressing social-based needs as the provincial government continues its work on a single-access approach to providing information and delivering programs.

There he goes, again, thought I. Robert Redford in high dudgeon over the Northern Gateway pipeline, lecturing Canadians as yet another of those in the measured words of Joe Oliver "jet-setting celebrities with some of the largest personal carbon footprints in the world" this side of Peter MacKay.