Tag: News/Canada/Edmonton

A fire at a vacant home in northeast Edmonton has prompted an investigation by police and fire rescue services. At about 6:15 a.m. on Sunday, crews responded to reports of a fire at a house at 89th Street and 124th Avenue,…

Two weeks after the MMIWG released its recommendations on reconciliation, lawyers working for Legal Aid Alberta say they need to do better in representing their Indigenous clients. Legal aid introduced mandatory cultural-sensitivity training for its lawyers in 2016 in an…

The University of Alberta’s board of governors have voted in favour of a new program-based tuition model that will allow international students to have fixed tuition rates during their degree, but at a higher cost.  With the new model, tuition fees for international student will…

David Thiessen wants to help Canadians become better neighbours and help one another.  So, he created an app. In 2016, the 31-year-old electrician dreamt up The Good Neighbour app, a program that allows users who live near each other to share…

The future of Dwayne’s Home is in question now that its building is up for sale. The former hostel at 102 Street and 100 Avenue was turned into a transitional housing facility in 2013. They have space for about 130 adult residents…

A child and a man are dead after a fire destroyed a home in Plamondon, Alta., early Saturday morning, police said.  Lac La Biche RCMP responded to a house fire around 12:45 a.m in the hamlet about 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Lac La…

Two people are dead after a fire destroyed a home in Plamondon, Alta., early Saturday morning, police said.  The victims are believed to be an adult male and a child, police said.  Lac La Biche RCMP responded to a house fire around 12:45…

Charges have been laid against two people after the driver of a stolen truck rammed police vehicles in a McDonald’s drive-thru in Westlock, Alta., on Friday. The car ramming happened just after midnight, when RCMP tried to arrest the two occupants of…

Samer Sabelleil may be Edmonton’s most uber Uber driver. In the highly-competitive ride-hailing market, where coveted five-star ratings are nearly impossible to maintain, Sabelleil has a near-perfect ranking of 4.99. After logging 3,500 trips, one mistake — a rider who misunderstood the rating…

In the early days of the Alberta NDP government, an emboldened caucus and cabinet of rural and urban MLAs introduced a bill that would dog them for the next four years. It was known as Bill 6, officially called the…