NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 24/2024
-Edmonton police are releasing a series of surveillance videos of suspects in those home builder extortion schemes. It's known as "Project Gaslight", where South Asian home builders are being told to come up with cash, or their projects and homes will be set on fire. Investigators say several arsons are linke...
Apr 24, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 23/2024
-A judge has ruled a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Catholic Church and a priest who used to work in Edmonton. It's being led by residential school survivor Sphenia Jones, after the priest in question allegedly described evidence of unmarked graves as lies and manipulation during one of his sermons. ...
Apr 23, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 22/2024
-Alberta is going to become home to the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada, as Imperial has qualified for the Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit program. When production begins next year, Imperial says that facility will convert locally sourced biofeedstocks such as canola oil, into lower-emission renew...
Apr 22, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 19/2024
-The largest water-sharing agreements in Alberta's history are now in place to help if severe drought conditions develop this spring and summer. Thirty-eight of the largest and oldest water licence-holders in southern Alberta, say they will reduce the water they use, if need be. Participating municipalities w...
Apr 19, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 18/2024
-If you'd been hoping to hear something for agriculture in this week's federal budget, you probably heard the sound of crickets. But since the tax on capital gains of at least 250-thousand dollars is being hiked to 66-percent, Keith Currie with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture says they're trying to find out...
Apr 18, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 17/2024
-The federal budget came down yesterday and the feds want to spend more than 8-billion dollars on housing initiatives. Small and medium sized businesses will receive about 2.5-billion dollars in carbon rebates later this year. Taxes on cigarettes and vaping products are going up, while the government plans to make it e...
Apr 17, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 16/2024
-Tickets for Game 1 of the first round of the Oilers' playoffs have been snapped up in a big way. Most of the ones now available are "verified resale tickets", tickets sold by fans and authenticated by Ticketmaster. Now it's a matter of waiting to find to find out who the Oilers are going to face in th...
Apr 16, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 15/2024
-Hope you enjoyed the warm and sunny weekend, because winter is supposed to return this week. Forecasters with the Weather Network are talking about temperatures falling, along with a lot of snow for some regions, especially in the southern half of the province. That's supposed to kick in tonight before it moves into S...
Apr 15, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 12/2024
-The Minister of Service Alberta says the government is working to make sure people still waiting for their money after opting out of life-lease agreements, get what they're owed. Dale Nally also says the Life Lease Protection Amendment Act will demand the return of entrance fees within 180 days of the cancellation of ...
Apr 12, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 11/2024
-A number of properties in Strathcona County had to be evacuated yesterday when a wildfire erupted around Township Road 530 and Range Road 215. High winds sent the flames towards a barn, and two barns with animals inside had to be emptied. But there's word the fire hit a cut line and stopped moving forward, which allow...
Apr 11, 2024