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Rob Surkovic lost his fight against COVID-19 on New Year's Day.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is keeping its key interest rate target on hold at 0.25 per cent, but warning it won't stay there for much longer.

EDMONTON — A man is facing charges after an alleged attack on a Muslim woman near a mosque in Edmonton, a city that has seen several similar assaults in the last few years.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says a patient has died in hospital in Red Deer while awaiting care in the emergency ward.

Partly in response to last week’s red alert in Airdrie that left multiple medical calls without available ambulances, Alberta health minister Jason Copping has announced the provincial government is launching an emergency medical services advisory committee to provide immediate and long-term recommendations to inform a new provincial Emergency Medical Services (EMS) service plan. 

The parliamentary budget officer has found the cost of cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan already dwarfs the money collected from industry to pay for it.

Younger people are more likely to struggle with depression, anxiety, and addictions

CAMROSE, Alta. — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is investigating a helicopter crash in central Alberta on the weekend. The government agency says a Bell 206B helicopter crashed near Camrose on Sunday.

The province reported 51,157 active COVID cases in Alberta on Tuesday.

GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now wending its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates.