Graham Thomson: Alberta politics revolves around selling the oilsands

Everybody in the Alberta government calls the oilsands Canada’s greatest buried treasure or maybe the goose that laid the golden egg and certainly the economic...

Feb 24, 2025 | Politics

The Oilsands: A political timeline

1948 Oilsands Ltd. Bitumount plant becomes property of the Alberta government. Premier Ernest Manning takes all the members of the legislative assembly on a tour...

Feb 24, 2025 | Politics

Edmonton’s 1910 Union Bank building soon home to business, fine dining

The plan includes the relocation of Union Financial Corporation’s headquarters to the upper floors, and the opening of Roca by Sabor, a new fine dining...

Feb 24, 2025 | Business

Edmonton’s new private addiction treatment centre offers immediate help, no wait lists

“Because what happens in treatment is that you learn all this information, but you’re in a very protective bubble.”

Feb 24, 2025 | Business

Rideshare and taxi drivers must take new training by April 1: City of Edmonton

Lyla Peter, director of developmental approvals and inspections with the City of Edmonton, said the new training has been in development since 2022, after complaints...

Feb 24, 2025 | Business

Ovechkin has hat trick in 7-3 win over Oilers

Alex Ovechkin scored his 880th, 881st and 882nd career goals to record a hat trick and move 13 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record and...

Feb 24, 2025 | Press Release

‘This awful war’: Ukrainians find reprieve far from home at Edmonton church

EDMONTON – Archpriest Cornell Zubritsky sometimes hears the loud wailing of air raids thousands of kilometres away in Ukraine. The sirens screech from the cellphones...

Feb 24, 2025 | Press Release