Month: April 2024

Back on April 1, 2015, this paper published a story claiming the City of Edmonton was going to spend $87.5 million constructing “all-season overhead coverings for the city’s 95 kilometres of bike lanes.” The canopies, designed to keep snow and rain off bicycle commuters, would be “steel-framed, heated and lit.” Dozens of angry readers called […]

Police say an officer was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after being assaulted while walking to a downtown police station on Monday night.

Borrowed money Re: PM’s carbon tax defence is incoherent, editorial, April 2 Seems to me that if Justin Trudeau cancelled the carbon tax and, as Steve Ambler (University of Quebec) states, eliminated the hodgepodge of rules, regulations, controls and taxes that are harming the efficiency and competitiveness of the Canadian economy, Canadians could afford to […]

The City of Toronto will conduct its annual burn of High Park on Tuesday.

The Quebec Liberal Party is worried about what’s happening to homes in flood zones and is calling for a parliamentary commission as more people are being affected by flooding.

A road construction worker was seriously injured early Tuesday morning after police say they were struck in a hit-and-run on the Don Valley Parkway.

A big elm tree that had grown in the parking lot of the Calgary Stampede grounds for more than 125 years was cut down on Monday.

Dan Williams, Alberta’s minister of mental health and addiction, defends the recovery community model despite deaths from all substances increasing by 130 per cent since the governing UCP party took office in 2019.

The lawyer for a man convicted of murdering four members of a Muslim family in what the judge deemed to be an act of terrorism says his client is seeking to appeal the convictions.

Calgarians were treated to some wonderful weather to view Monday’s partial solar eclipse.