About 75% of voters backed staying in Canada in the Alberta separation referendum, while separatists now plan to push their cause through the UCP.
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Alberta referendum preliminary results show about 76% of voters chose to remain in Canada, rejecting a path toward a binding separation vote.
The CFB Wainwright fire killed four Edmonton-based soldiers during Latvia deployment training. Nineteen remain critical as Alberta hospitals respond.
Ahead of Monday’s Alberta referendum, Carney and Smith rallied together in Red Deer for unity but remain split on nine questions about immigration and power.
Carney’s U.S. invasion risk comments to the New York Times have revived questions about Canada’s contingency planning, Trump’s 51st-state talk and defence policy.
Prairie storm insured losses topped $1.8 billion across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba this summer, with ten events tallied by CatIQ and reported by IBC.
Ottawa’s Life Sciences Fund is putting $67 million behind five dual-use projects, including $21.9 million for an Alberta-led antimicrobial supply resilience effort.
Backlash to the Alberta separation referendum helped the NDP win Calgary-Shaw by 582 votes, five weeks before the Oct. 19 independence vote.
The Calgary-Shaw byelection went to the Alberta NDP’s Kyle Campbell over UCP candidate Mike Derry, with an official count scheduled for Sept. 24.
Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon says regulatory and technical solutions exist after an Anthropic researcher quit warning AI could “kill us all.”