News/Canada/Edmonton (Page 19)

Edmonton Two Edmonton artists are elated to have their paintings back a month after their theft from the Grey Nuns Community Hospital. ‘It was like absolute elation. It was like having your children back,’ says artist Barbara Mitchell Artist Barbara Mitchell received her pieces from the police on Monday, aContinue Reading

Edmonton The Edmonton Police Service is spending $16.2 million to equip its members with body-worn cameras in a rollout of the technology required by the provincial government. Police started program in September to meet provincial mandate Natasha Riebe · CBC News · Posted: Oct 29, 2024 8:00 AM EDT | LastContinue Reading

Edmonton Proposed changes to the Alberta Bill of Rights would allow a worker to take a provincial employer to court if the employee is subject to a vaccination requirement. The legislation, introduced Monday, would broaden Albertans’ personal rights while strengthening property rights and protections for owners of legally acquired firearms.Continue Reading

Georgina Villeneuve says the humiliation still stings when she thinks about being forced off a Porter plane last month. She was threatened by a flight attendant and berated by another passenger — all over her 20 pound service dog sleeping at her feet. “For a week I cried nonstop …Continue Reading

Edmonton Bartonella quintana, an infection caused by body lice, has been found in seven organ transplant recipients in Alberta since 2022. Organ donors had been living with homelessness and were infected themselves Julia Wong · CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2024 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 26Continue Reading

Edmonton Last May, when Jenny Saulnier was home alone with her dog in Nova Scotia while her son and husband were at hockey, she scrolled through social media and saw there was a house fire some nine kilometres from her home, and was assured she would be fine. ‘They’re fightingContinue Reading

The number of amputations due to frostbite in Edmonton reached 110 last winter, the highest level in more than a decade, according to new data obtained by CBC News. But Calgary marked its second consecutive winter of declining frostbite amputations, counting roughly one-third of Edmonton’s procedures last fiscal year. TheContinue Reading

Edmonton CBC’s Edmonton AM sat down with Rachel Pizante, a PhD student in conservation biology at the University of Alberta. She led a study looking at the habitat that helps this family of flies thrive. U of A study found 90 species of hoverflies Emily Williams · CBC News ·Continue Reading

Edmonton The Alberta and federal governments are putting a combined $5.5 million toward attracting tourists to the Rocky Mountain town of Jasper, Alta. July wildfire destroyed one-third of the mountain town, including multiple hotelsThe Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 18, 2024 6:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 18 TheContinue Reading