Tag Archives: Anzac
Fort McMurray Skywatchers Set for Final Supermoon of 2025
FORT MCMURRAY - The final full moon of 2025 will put on its brightest and highest show of the year this week, offering skywatchers across Fort McMurray a clear view of December's Cold Supermoon. The f...
Dec 04, 2025 Moon photo, March 2024, Jon Tupper
New Alberta Motion Asserts Self-Defence Rights And Challenges Federal Firearms Policy
EDMONTON - Alberta says it will introduce a motion under the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act to prevent provincial agencies from enforcing the federal gun seizure program and to affirm ...
Dec 04, 2025
Province Boosts Mental Health Resources As Classroom Complexity Grows
EDMONTON - Alberta is allocating $69 million to help schools manage rising classroom complexity linked to student mental health needs. The province says the funding, spread over three years through th...
Dec 04, 2025 ArturVerkhovetskiy / Depositphotos.com
Canadian productivity rebounds as business output strengthens in third quarter
OTTAWA - Labour productivity in Canada rose in the third quarter as business output rebounded and hours worked edged down, reversing the decline recorded earlier in the year. Statistics Canada says pr...
Dec 03, 2025 ArturVerkhovetskiy / Depositphotos.com
Unity petition sparks calls for legislative vote as opponents warn of economic risk
EDMONTON - A growing number of voices are urging Premier Danielle Smith to settle Alberta's "Forever Canada" question with a simple vote in the legislature instead of a provincewide referendum, follow...
Dec 03, 2025 doomu / Depositphotos.com
Alberta highest among provinces as Canada lags in new economic freedom report
VANCOUVER - Alberta remains the most economically free province in Canada but sits 30th overall among 92 jurisdictions in North America, according to a new report from the Fraser Institute. The think ...
Dec 03, 2025 apotterdd / Depositphotos.com
Record demand sees WBCF distribute $250,000 to support community well-being
FORT MCMURRAY - The Wood Buffalo Community Foundation is awarding $250,000 to ten local social profit groups to support mental health and resilience programs across the region. The funding comes throu...
Dec 03, 2025
Northern Lights Health Foundation's Festival of Trees raises nearly $1 million for local healthcare
FORT McMURRAY - The Northern Lights Health Foundation says this year's Festival of Trees raised $870,000 to support healthcare projects across the Wood Buffalo region. More than 10,000 people attended...
Dec 03, 2025 Festival of Trees 2025
RCMP expand check stops and urge planning ahead to prevent impaired driving
FORT McMURRAY - Wood Buffalo RCMP are stepping up impaired driving enforcement and winter road safety efforts as holiday gatherings, darker days and slippery streets combine to raise risks on local ro...
Dec 03, 2025 RCMP vehicle, Wikimedia Commons, CC License
RMWB targets pre Christmas opening for Fort Chipewyan winter road
FORT CHIPEWYAN - Construction crews are working to build the Fort Chipewyan Winter Road despite delays caused by unseasonably warm weather, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo says. Municipal co...
Dec 02, 2025
