For Earth Day 2024 this week, people around the world are encouraged to take action for a healthier planet.
The City of Calgary has several programs related to the theme of plastic waste, the most prominent being the city's single-use bylaw that took effect in January.Under this bylaw, businesses charge a mandatory minimum fee of 15 cents for a new paper shopping bag and one dollar for a reusable bag – and they will only be given if a customer asks for one.Cllrs. Chabot, McLean, Wyness and Chu voted against the bylaw.
A wildfire alert was issued for Lac Ste Anne County Monday afternoon. Residents of Bilby Common, an area approximately 50 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, were asked to be prepared to leave within 30 minutes.The 2024 federal budget released last week includes numerous big spending promises that have garnered headlines.
Coaldale RCMP are looking for the public's help to locate a suspect in a hit-and-run in a McDonald's parking lot earlier this month.An agreement to protect a sprawling ranch in southern Alberta from development is the largest of its kind in the country, the Nature Conservancy of Canada says, and will allow the family that owns it to continue raising cattle there.Search for missing kayakers off Vancouver Island expands into U.S.
The Saskatchewan NDP are calling for the resignation of Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill, saying he lied about apologizing for comments he made to a mother whose daughter died.A Saskatchewan Coroners Service inquest has called for changes in the way police across the province conduct and catalogue searches following the 2021 in-custody death of Jeremy Sabourin.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says two people were found dead and four others survived after a boat capsized off the west coast of Newfoundland.The Saint John Police Force is looking for a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for breaking the conditions of his statutory release.A Manitoba First Nation is warning its residents about dangerous drugs in the community that are causing people to have seizures.
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