Category Archives: Prairies/BC
Manitoba looking to raise electricity rates 2.5 per cent each year for three years
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to raise electricity rates by 2.5 per cent a year for the next three years, starting in December. The increases, to be presented in amendments to a bill before the legislature, are the lowest
Penticton goes to court over B.C. shelter in city
PENTICTON, B.C. — The City of Penticton has launched a B.C. Supreme Court challenge against the provincial government's move to override its zoning bylaws for what was to be a temporary winter shelter. The petition says the government's actions to con...
Saskatchewan prepares to reopen Sunday, offers public health guidance
REGINA — Saskatchewan is offering COVID-19 public safety guidance as the province prepares to fully reopen on Sunday. A public health order requiring masks indoors will be lifted, but the government says unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people sho...
Manitoba’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines set to exceed daily demand: health officials
WINNIPEG — Manitoba health officials say the province is about to reach a new marker in the pandemic — the supply of COVID-19 vaccines is set to exceed demand on a daily basis. Johanu Botha, co-lead of the provincial vaccination team,
Alberta finance minister, health provider want to cut pay to nurses
EDMONTON — The Alberta government wants to cut the wages of nurses by three per cent to help control spending and the head of the union representing them says that's a blow to morale already low due to the COVID-19
Manitoba premier says statues will be rebuilt
WINNIPEG — Statues of two queens that were torn down by protesters on the Manitoba legislature grounds will be rebuilt, Premier Brian Pallister said Wednesday. "Tearing down is a lot simpler than building up," Pallister said at his first news conferenc...
B.C. first province to introduce hydrogen strategy
VANCOUVER — British Columbia is Canada's first province to introduce a business and environmental strategy on how renewable and low-carbon hydrogen can reduce emissions and create jobs in the clean technology sector. Bruce Ralston, minister of energy,...
Toppled queen statues being assessed; federal Conservatives want them restored
WINNIPEG — The fate of two toppled statues on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature remains unclear. The statues of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria were brought down with ropes on Canada Day by demonstrators who were protesting the deaths of
City council votes to repeal masking bylaw ahead of this week’s Calgary Stampede
CALGARY — City council in Calgary has voted to repeal its masking bylaw, days before the start of the Stampede. Last week, the provincial government lifted most of its COVID-19 public health restrictions but Calgary left its masking bylaw in place
Manitoba ahead of vaccine targets, but data shows COVID hit some communities harder
WINNIPEG — Manitoba hit a key COVID-19 milestone Monday as the number of people 12 and older and fully vaccinated reached 50 per cent. The figure for people with at least one dose was just shy of 75 per cent. The provincial
