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VICTORIA — This week’s election eve update on provincial finances was shocking even by the devil-may-care fiscal standards of the David Eby government. Read More

Many business leaders feel the province is “closed for business,” according to B.C. Chamber of Commerce CEO Fiona Famulak. Read More

Premier Danielle Smith remains committed to Calgary's Green Line project, a representative from her office said — but only if the future LRT line remains above-ground. Read More

We have a provincial election looming within the next month, so whichever decision British Columbians make will no doubt have a huge impact on the entire province. Unless we do our extensive research on candidates that run for office, we are certainly not going to end up with positive results. Staying home on election night is not the answer. So unless we get out there and vote, we get the provincial politicians we deserve. As the late comic genius George Carlin once said: “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” Read More

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Lethbridge police are investigating an early Tuesday morning incident in which a woman was violently attacked while sleeping. Read More

Hundreds of Calgarians paused in silence outside City Hall on Tuesday as a bell tolled 77 times to recognize the number of city firefighters who have given their lives in service to the city. Read More

A Vancouver police officer could face charges in the fatal shooting of a man in the Downtown Eastside two years ago, according to B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office. Read More

Calgary has completed repairs on four out of eight sites along the Bearspaw south feeder main and is now in the final stages of backfilling the pipe and paving the route to bring the road along the sites back into service. Read More

I skipped past pretty cliffside homes painted in shades of pale yellow and robin’s egg blue that looked down on the deep-green Atlantic Ocean. I was almost paralyzed with fear from driving a monstrously large SUV down shrub-lined roads built for Austin Minis. I read sad stories about shipwrecks, wandered into funky boutiques and deeply inhaled the salty sea air. Read More

Expect Jake Maier to be under centre when the Calgary Stampeders return to game action Saturday. Read More

With an eye toward rental rates, the NDP has made another campaign promise — this time to bring 500 Saskatchewan Housing Authority units online within its first year in government and to cap annual rent increases. Read More

A donation hopes to aid Kids Help Phone in identifying and addressing access gaps for youth mental health services in Alberta. Read More

No elected MP is more hostile to Alberta's economy than Yves-Francois Blanchet, the separatist Bloc Quebecois leader. Read More

Displaced for nearly a month, residents of Sandy Bay have been given the green light to return home now that a wildfire which threatened the community is moving further away. Read More

Kyle McIntyre was working at a construction site in Victoria's Chinatown on Saturday when a 4,000-pound load of reinforced concrete and heavy-duty plywood molds for forming concrete fell on him from a height of about 10 or 12 feet. Read More

For weeks now there have been rumours and general chitchat about the Edmonton Oilers bringing on at least one more experienced defenceman to training camp later this month. On Tuesday came a report from Dustin Nielson of Edmonton Sports Talk that the Oilers have come to terms with Travis Dermott on a Professional Tryout (PTO). Read More

A new mural in North Central Regina is showing the bright side of a community that often gets a bad rap. Read More

Viktor Arvidsson wasted no time introducing himself to the face of his new franchise. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Tuesday hailed carbon capture as a way for the province to balance the future of its energy industry with the need to reduce emissions, over the objections of skeptics of the technology. Read More