Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
Tag Archives: alberta
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario criticize passage of federal environment bills
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will fight the passage of two federal environment bills on multiple fronts - starting in court. Kenney says he is filing constitutional challenges to Bi...
Jun 21, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax
EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax. At a news conference Thursday, Doug Sc...
Jun 20, 2019
Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with weather disasters such as fires in northern Alberta. Speaking in Vancouver, Trudeau said Canadians are seeing ...
Jun 04, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Alberta set to pass law to kill provincial carbon tax, as federal tax looms
EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is dead, setting the stage for a showdown with Ottawa over the imposition of a new one. The province cancelled its tax on gasoline at the pumps and on home hea...
May 30, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Weather still concern for Alberta firefighters but crews keeping flames at bay
Warmer temperatures, gusty winds and no rain continued to cause unpredictable conditions for firefighters in northern Alberta on Monday, but officials said measures to keep flames away from threatened...
May 27, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta
Emergency funds for High Level evacuees to start flowing by Monday
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Officials say wildfire evacuees in northwestern Alberta should not expect to return until at least next week and that provincial emergency funds for gas, food and other expenses sh...
May 24, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Government of Alberta
Alberta throne speech followed by bill to repeal provincial carbon tax
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney put forward a bill Wednesday to kill the Alberta carbon tax - and he put Ottawa politicians on notice that if they try to backstop it with their own levy, he'll see the...
May 22, 2019
Growing wildfire prompts evacuation of High Level, Alta.
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Approximately 4,000 residents of a northern Alberta town are being evacuated due to the threat of an encroaching wildfire. People are being told to leave High Level on Highway 58 e...
May 20, 2019
Alberta premier Jason Kenney says provincial carbon tax will die May 30
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta's carbon tax has about two weeks to live. Kenney says the Carbon Tax Repeal Act is to be introduced during next week's legislature sitting and will have a ...
May 13, 2019
Alberta’s ‘turn-off-taps’ law makes gas price jumps and shortages real
VICTORIA - Get ready for higher gasoline prices and shortages in British Columbia and a supply surplus on the Prairies if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney uses a newly proclaimed law to restrict fuel expo...
May 02, 2019
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Tiger Woods should know better after another DUI case
Sarah Mills says Tiger Woods could easily pay for a car service, and he should also have an NDA to keep his business his...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 2
On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...