7 d. ago Wildfire live updates: Alberta wildfires continue to grow | Six Alberta forest areas in 'extreme wildfire risk' | Fire bans across Alberta

An ongoing look at everything you need to know about wildfires in Alberta and Western Canada.

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1 week ago Energy Meets AI: Calgary Executive Breakfast to Shape Alberta’s Digital Future

CALGARY, Alberta — On Wednesday, July 2, 2025, more than 100 senior leaders from Alberta’s energy, AI, cloud, and infrastructure sectors will gather at Platform Calgary for the Energy & AI Data Centre Executive Breakfast – a curated leadership session launching Calgary Stampede week with a bold focus on Alberta’s emergence as a global AI […]

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1 week ago Alberta emergency room visit lengths continue to grow: Report

Anyone who has been to an emergency room in Alberta in recent years knows to expect a wait if not critically ill or injured — now, a new report confirms wait times have increased.

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2 w. ago Alberta shows a lack of improvement when it comes to emergency room wait times: report

Alberta’s emergency room wait times are just as long as they were last year for the median patient, according to a new report by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI). The median Albertan spent three hours and 48 minutes in the emergency room in 2024 — an increase of 54 minutes since 2020. According to the […]

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2 w. ago Crews brace for more hot, dry temperatures in fight against Prairie wildfires

Crews will face hot, dry conditions with the odd chance of rain today as they try to put down wildfires that have forced thousands out of their homes from Alberta to Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have declared provincewide states of emergency to deal with the fires, most of which are scorching pockets of rural communities […]

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2 w. ago Young people, newcomers fuel new debt growth: TransUnion report

The latest TransUnion debt report shows total debt continued to grow in the first quarter compared with the year before, driven mainly by young people and newcomers. The credit-tracking agency says gen Z consumers saw their outstanding balances grow 30.6 per cent from the prior year. The report says total outstanding debt grew 4.7 per […]

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3 w. ago Another 173 Ontario measles cases identified since last week

Measles cases continue to grow in Ontario, where 1,834 people have been infected since the beginning of January alone.

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