NEWS & SPORTS FOR MAY 1/2024
-Edmonton police are hoping the public can help them identify a "person of interest" in the recent fire that destroyed the historic Hangar 11 last week. Officials say it was only one of two such buildings left from the Second World War, and now it's gone. The fire is considered suspicious, and police have pho...
May 01, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 30/2024
-Edmonton police have issued Canada-wide warrants for a suspect in three drive-by shootings investigators believe are connected with extortions involving South Asian home builders. The incidents all happened in December. In one case, someone fired shots at a bedroom window of a home in the Cy Becker neighbourhood of Ed...
Apr 30, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS--APRIL 29/2024
-The ALERT team's ICE-unit has charged a Calgary school principal with offences related to child sexual abuse materials. Investigators say the suspect allegedly uploaded those materials through Skype, while a number of phones and computers have since been seized from the man's home. They say some were also foun...
Apr 29, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 26/2024
-A 33-year old Constable with the St. Paul RCMP detachment is facing counts of child exploitation offences. The ALERT ICE-team say their investigation began last November, after the suspect allegedly uploaded some exploitation videos to Snapchat. And they say they seized evidence from the suspect's home compute...
Apr 26, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 25/2025
-A big seizure of animals in distress on a property in Mountain View County this week, has put a major strain on the Alberta SPCA. The organization was called to help RCMP during an investigation, and SPCA Peace Officers took 82 animals into care. Among them were 56 dogs, ten sheep, nine llamas, four chickens and three...
Apr 25, 2024
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