Edmonton news

• Why Danielle Smith's government is not withstanding many court challenges

  06-12-2025 12:00 via cbc.ca
  From transgender policies to referendums to "conservative" party names, the Alberta UCP has stepped in where others have feared to tread.
  
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• Province amends bill after Elections Alberta warns it harms trust

  10-12-2025 20:46 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government made a last-minute adjustment to a bill on citizen-initiated referendums, after the chief electoral officer warned it would impede his office's independence.
  
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• Alberta amends Bill 14 after chief electoral officer raises red flag about 'partisan influence'

  10-12-2025 20:40 via cbc.ca
  The chief electoral officer copied all MLAs on a letter outlining his concerns, sent before the bill went to second reading.
  
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• Recall petition issued for Premier Danielle Smith, 2 more Alberta cabinet ministers

  10-12-2025 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  Recall petitions have been issued for Premier Danielle Smith, Technology Minister Nate Glubish and Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, Elections Alberta announced.
  
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• Alberta emergency rooms hit with wave of influenza patients

  10-12-2025 20:12 via cbc.ca
  Alberta hospitals are being slammed with flu patients at a time when they’re already under strain, and doctors are bracing for more as the worst of the respiratory virus season has yet to hit.
  
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• Edmonton teacher charged with multiple sex offences involving student

  10-12-2025 18:58 via globalnews.ca
  A 32-year-old teacher from Hilwie Hamden School, a K-to-9 school in Edmonton, has been charged with multiple sexual offences involving a student.
  
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• Recall petition targeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith approved

  10-12-2025 18:35 via cbc.ca
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with two additional members of her cabinet, are now the latest MLAs to face a recall petition from constituents.
  
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• Dillon Dube signs AHL tryout following world junior sexual assault acquittal

  10-12-2025 17:34 via globalnews.ca
  General manager Doug Armstrong announced the deal with the 27-year-old on Wednesday.
  
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• Edmonton's Danielle Serdachny brings her Olympic hockey hopes home in Rivalry Series

  10-12-2025 16:19 via cbc.ca
  Danielle Serdachny gets to wear the Maple Leaf in her hometown in hockey games carrying weight in her Olympic future.
  
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• Alberta uses notwithstanding clause again, on 3 laws affecting transgender youth

  10-12-2025 14:19 via cbc.ca
  Alberta's governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that uses the notwithstanding clause to shield laws affecting transgender youth.
  
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• Alberta passes bill affecting transgender people, invoking notwithstanding clause for 4th time

  10-12-2025 14:19 via cbc.ca
  Alberta's governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that uses the notwithstanding clause to shield laws affecting transgender youth.
  
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• Alberta Legislature passes Charter override on 3 additional laws

  10-12-2025 14:19 via cbc.ca
  Alberta's governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that uses the notwithstanding clause to shield laws affecting transgender youth.
  
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• Several Edmonton-area schools coping with respiratory illness outbreaks

  10-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  More than a dozen schools in the Edmonton metropolitan region are dealing with an outbreak of illness, according to a number of local school divisions.
  
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• Cold Lake Food Bank looking for new home as demand outgrows its cramped facility

  10-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  The Cold Lake Food Bank is feeling the pressure as it tries to serve an increasing number of individuals relying on its services out of a space that it has long since outgrown.
  
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• Alberta legislature passes bill invoking Charter override for 4th time

  10-12-2025 12:45 via globalnews.ca
  Members of Premier Danielle Smith's caucus used their majority to pass on third and final reading a bill affecting transgender citizens.
  
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• Serdachny takes Olympic hockey hopes into hometown

  10-12-2025 12:01 via globalnews.ca
  Danielle Serdachny gets to wear the Maple Leaf in her hometown in hockey games carrying weight in her Olympic future.
  
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• 3-way partnership to help fund Whitemud Drive widening at western edge of Edmonton

  10-12-2025 04:28 via cbc.ca
  Edmontonians living in the city's west end may see some traffic relief in their future, as plans are now in place to pay for upgrades to a section of Whitemud Drive.
  
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• Businesses rejoice as accelerated roadwork ends for Edmonton's Valley Line West LRT

  10-12-2025 02:36 via cbc.ca
  Businesses are relieved and excited about the completion of accelerated roadwork for the Valley Line West LRT. The plan closed entire portions of 104th Avenue in an effort to speed up construction.
  
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• Airdrie rallies in support of holiday hamper program following theft

  10-12-2025 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  Several hockey teams in the Airdrie area redoubled their efforts to make a difference in the community following a theft of donations for an annual holiday hamper program.
  
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• Making security more efficient at the Edmonton airport

  10-12-2025 01:53 via cbc.ca
  A new technology is being introduced at the Edmonton International Airport to make bag check easier and faster. CBC's Tristan Mottershead went down to see how this innovative technology will help ahead of the holiday season.
  
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• Accelerated Valley Line West LRT construction complete for 2025

  10-12-2025 01:43 via globalnews.ca
  Marigold said this a significant milestone because the Valley Line West LRT construction has now passed the point where major roadwork has a big impact on drivers and pedestrians.
  
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• YEG upgrading security scanners so liquids, electronics can stay in carry-on bags

  10-12-2025 00:21 via globalnews.ca
  The holidays are always a busy time at the Edmonton International Airport but a CT X-ray scanner that takes 3D images should help speed up the security screening process.
  
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• West Edmonton Men’s Shed program builds connections while helping Glenrose patients

  10-12-2025 00:18 via globalnews.ca
  A west Edmonton Men’s Shed is building more than birdhouses — its handmade kits are helping Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital patients rebuild their strength, skills and memory.
  
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• Quebec man with history of involvement in human trafficking rearrested in Calgary

  09-12-2025 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Calgary police have arrested a 22-year-old man from Quebec who has a history of being involved in human trafficking on a half dozen new charges.
  
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• Lethbridge MLA's recall campaign doing no visible campaigning, spurning volunteers

  09-12-2025 22:09 via cbc.ca
  Locals can't sign up to canvass for petitions against United Conservative MLA Nathan Neudorf or find out where to sign forms.
  
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• Sherwood Park man facing child sexual exploitation charges

  09-12-2025 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP in Sherwood Park said it launched an investigation in relation to child pornography offences in mid-November.
  
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• Immunity for Alberta attorney general necessary to ward off ‘political activism,’ attorney general says

  09-12-2025 20:37 via cbc.ca
  Alberta’s justice minister, who is also the attorney general, says new rules that would grant anyone who’s in his job general immunity from law society sanctions are necessary to ward off “political activism, or complaints, or other interference.” 
  
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• RCMP in Brooks investigate anti-immigrant, white supremacist graffiti

  09-12-2025 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP in Brooks, Alta., are asking for the public's help investigating numerous reports of anti-immigrant and white supremacist graffiti spotted around the city.
  
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• Alphonso Davies returns to action for Bayern Munich after knee injury

  09-12-2025 19:03 via cbc.ca
  Canada captain Alphonso Davies returned to action for Bayern Munich on Tuesday, his first appearance .in 262
  days since suffering a serious knee injury
  
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• Alphonso Davies back on Bayern Munich bench 9 months after knee injury

  09-12-2025 19:03 via cbc.ca
  Alphonso Davies is back in Bayern Munich's game-day squad to face Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League for the first time in nearly nine months after a serious knee injury.
  
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