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The U of T research concluded Albertas rates of age-adjusted excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic outpaced all other provinces.

Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Calgary.

In 2020, Alberta Health extended health-care coverage to people waiting for the federal government to renew their work permits. Many of those extensions have now run out, leaving foreign nationals responsible for paying for their own health care.

Advocates say they're watching closely because there's a risk. When people grow frail or ill outside of a care facility, the burden of care can fall heavy on family.

As Alberta struggles with health-care worker fatigue and rural doctor shortages, Marjan Abtahi looks on in frustration.

Despite its completion nearly 16 months ago, the report into the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at Edmonton's Misericordia Community Hospital hasn't been publicly released. CBC News obtained a copy through a freedom-of-information request.

The push to break Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy comes with the soundtrack of a patient’s laboured breathing and an ICU team’s tense medical preparations…

Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Calgary.

Food courts in Alberta are now allowed to open as long as they follow the provincial restriction exemption program.

Alberta reported 1,168 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday with a positivity rate of 10.09 per cent, as the number of people in hospital with the virus reached 336.