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Article content Edmonton’s upcoming summer festival season will be without K-Days for the second year in a row due to COVID-19. Northlands announced the cancellation of the 2021 event on Tuesday, a week after Premier Jason Kenney announced it would be one of the large-scale festivals that could go ahead as part of stage three in the province’s reopening plan. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or K-Days cancelled for second-straight year in Edmont...

K-Days, Edmonton's biggest summer carnival and fair, has been cancelled for a second summer in a row, despite plans to lift public health restrictions in time for the event. 

  EDMONTON -- The Alberta government’s reopening plan has prompted mixed reviews across the province but Edmonton’s tourism industry is hopeful that it will help land it back on its feet. The government announced, along with its reopening plans for the summer, its plan to allow hotels and lodging providers to keep tourism levy amounts collected between April 1 and June 30 A media release from the Alberta government described the three-month levy extension as one way to support accommod...

Posted: Apr 17, 2021 7:30 AM MT | Last Updated: April 17 Cree singer-songwriter Connie LeGrande, aka Cikwes, is one of seven local artists taking part in the Indigenous Language Exhibition.(Adrienne Lamb/CBC) Cree musician Connie LeGrande has put the finishing touches on her new song, Kisemanito, or Kind Creator, a Nehiyaw spiritual. "Its so important to have our languages out there," says LeGrande, an Edmonton-based singer-songwriter known as Cikwes. "It confirms the languages are stil...

Article content The City of Edmonton will put a $1.48-million grant from the federal government toward two initiatives to support Downtown economic recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With the funding announced Tuesday through Western Economic Diversification Canada, the city will launch a program this month to draw visitors to the core. Running through April, Downtown Spark will include a series of free exhibits and exhibitions for Edmontonians to explore outdoors while following physical dis...

Date Time Passion for mentorship drives successful serial entrepreneur’s new venture with University of Alberta When Christopher Micetich attended the University of Alberta in the 1980s, he figured he would be a natural fit in chemistry. After all, in 1980 his father Ronald Micetich, a world-renowned medicinal chemist, joined the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences as an adjunct professor teaching and working on contract chemical synthesis that would eventually lead to the creatio...