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EDMONTON — Premier Jason Kenney, with surging COVID-19 rates threatening to overwhelm Alberta’s hospitals, is reintroducing stricter rules on gatherings, businesses and schools not seen since the first wave of the pandemic. Kenney, in a live address on TV, social media and the United Conservative governments website, said the next three weeks are critical and that potential catastrophe awaits. “If exponential growth of COVID-19 in Alberta continues, it would begin to push the outer limits...

Dean Bennett Alberta Premier Jason Kenney updates media on measures taken to help with COVID-19, in Edmonton, Friday, March 20, 2020. Albertans are getting ready to hear new restrictions today as the provinces leaders deal with the highest COVID-19 case rates in the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson May 04, 2021 - 7:03 PM EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney, with surging COVID-19 rates threatening to overwhelm Alberta’s hospitals, is reintroducing stricter r...

Schools to move online until at least May 25 due to COVID-19

Alberta tightens COVID rules to prevent looming hospital catastrophe, triage Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press Ontario COVID-19 cases are plateauing at a very high level: Infectious diseases specialist VIDEO SIGN OUT   EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney, with surging COVID-19 rates threatening to overwhelm Albertas hospitals, is reintroducing stricter rules on gatherings, businesses and schools not seen since the first wave of the pandemic. Kenney, in a live address on TV, social media an...

Study finds strong link between changes to infant gut bacteria with method of childbirth ANI | Updated: Apr 21, 2021 22:41 IST Ottawa [Canada], April 21 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry have found a causal link between caesarean section birth, low intestinal microbiota and peanut sensitivity in infants, and they report the effect is more pronounced in children of Asian descent than others. The findings were p...

Author of the article: Submitted Publishing date: Apr 08, 2021  •  2 days ago  •  3 minute read  •  Article content Supported by $659,174 in federal funding from the Future Skills Centre, the two-year research project will examine the impact of a Zero Fee Tuition concept already underway in the Town of Drayton Valley. New partnerships with the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Extension and other post-secondary institutions across the province will allow the Town to provide e...

Author of the article: Jeff Labine Publishing date: Feb 10, 2021  •  February 10, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Article content The Alberta government is spending $714,000 over two years to develop a new campus at the University of Alberta to help veterans transition to the civilian world. The two-year pilot project announced on Feb. 4 will offer specialized on-campus supports and resources for military veteran students to help them achieve their career and educational goals. Studen...

CONTENT: Article Growing up in a multicultural diaspora household in Toronto and seeing the struggles and obstacles faced by her parents over the years, Bunisha Samuels is keen to confront the challenges facing racialized communities in Canada. Samuels’s mother is Tamil and immigrated to Canada in the 1980s during the Sri Lanka Civil War and her father is second-generation Canadian of Jamaican descent. “My parents placed a huge emphasis on education. For me, it was a way to engage in commun...

Jessica Shoemaker is Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her work on adaptive change in pluralistic land-tenure systems, as well as property law’s power to shape the contours of human communities and natural environments. Her work focuses specifically on issues of racial justice and agricultural sustainability in the American countryside and on systems of Indigenous land tenure and land governance in th...

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