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Proudly wearing a “North Side, Still Alive” sweatshirt, Desjarlais comes across as genuine in his desire to be an advocate for marginalized people.

There’s a buzz over the Edmonton area that will grow to a roar for those taking in the Alberta International Airshow west of St. Albert this weekend.

Ten years ago, when I was an embedded journalist in Afghanistan , one of my first assignments was to accompany a joint Canadian-Afghan mission to search…

"These are real people and real kids that are being victimized and every time these photos are sent out again, these kids are being re-victimized"

Edmonton’s homicide count for 2021 continues to surpass that of the previous year.

Article content Veterinary teams spent the day spaying and neutering a feral cat colony found on a rural property northeast of Edmonton in order to control the size of the population. About 58 adult cats will then be returned to their habitat after they have healed to live as they are accustomed to. But for the 36 kittens, they will be kept by the humane society in the hopes that they can be socialized and eventually adopted after they can be spayed and neutered. We apologize, but this video ha...

Article content Teamsters Canada started an organizing drive last week by handing out pamphlets to employees about the benefits of joining the union, and Teamsters Local 362 vice-president and business agent Chance Hrycun said positive feedback led to handing out petition cards. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Union gives Amazon workers in Nisku a choice to unionize Back to video “We just started handing them out this morning and we already h...

Article content Teamsters Canada started an organizing drive last week by handing out pamphlets to employees about the benefits of joining the union, and Teamsters Local 362 vice-president and business agent Chance Hrycun said positive feedback led to handing out petition cards. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Union gives Amazon workers in Nisku a choice to unionize Back to video “We just started handing them out this morning and we already h...

Braid: Kamloops school tragedy strikes a deep chord in the legislature There are no Indigenous legislature members to speak for their people. This is part of the problem. Maybe its time to carve out a couple of new provincial ridings for First Nations territory Author of the article: Don Braid  •  Calgary Herald Publishing date: Jun 01, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  4 minute read  •  Hundreds of childrens shoes remain in place at a memorial outside the Alberta Legislature b...

Maybe this is what Canada has been missing — the ability, or will, to see on a profoundly human level what has been done to Indigenous people and their culture