Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is welcoming its first Operational Stress Intervention Dog (OSID): Blaise. “Whether it’s a difficult call during a tough day, or the need for a calming presence, Blaise will be available to all of our staff — sworn and civilian,” EPS’ interim police…
Canada’s Leaders’ Debates Commission is defending its decision to invite Green Party co–leader Jonathan Pedneault to this week’s debates, even though the party is well short of a full slate of candidates. Parties must meet two of the following three criteria in order to be invited to the debates: Having at least one sitting MP who’s been…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to tighten financial transparency rules for elected officials — and is using that promise to take aim at Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Poilievre told a press conference in Ottawa on Sunday that if his party forms government, he’ll ban what he calls “shadow lobbying.” “We will eliminate the lobbying…
Once a month, Abbotsford-based optometrist Dr. Vicky Mahairhu flies from Vancouver to Fort Nelson, B.C., a more than 1,000 kilometre journey, to care for patients in the northeastern community. But every time she flies, Mahairhu said there are last-minute cancellations that affect her on either end — and sometimes both. That’s why she’s written to…
The Auto Experience show, formerly known as the Edmonton Motorshow, is back at the Edmonton Expo Centre after a five-year hiatus. The four-day event, which started Thursday, allows attendees to check out what’s new in the auto world, consult with several manufacturers and test-drive new vehicles. “We’re still showcasing a lot of other things, like…
A worker from India who claimed he had to pay $25,000 to obtain a job at a truck repair company in Richmond, B.C., where he was shorted wages, has been awarded $115,574.69 by the B.C. Employment Standards Tribunal. The determination also calculated the money A J Boyal Truck Repair Ltd. of Richmond, B.C., was deemed…
There are more kids in need of a safe, supportive home than there are foster care parents able to provide that roof over their head, according to an Edmonton agency that facilitates finding homes for children in care. “We have these vulnerable little people where their family members might be going through a crisis and…
WARNING: This story contains disturbing video and graphic descriptions of violence, as well as coarse language A crucial video has been shown at the trial of Alain Bellefeuille — who shot and killed an Ontario Provincial Police officer and wounded two others outside Ottawa in 2023 — that takes the jury to the heart of the central question…
Josephine and Jason Field are living a parent’s worst nightmare, but are doing so with grace and an unshakeable faith. “We just take everything day by day. You know, it’s just been endless mercy poured out on us,” Jason said. It was two weeks ago when the Field’s life was turned upside down. March 28…
A Canadian legal association under fire for cancelling a Syrian Canadian entrepreneur’s upcoming speech over his stance on Gaza says it will cancel the event altogether. The Advocates’ Society said a statement Thursday that it “faced a moment where our leaders were tested in the application of our core values, and in that moment TAS fell…
