Alberta News

EDMONTON — The leaders of Alberta's public sector unions promised Thursday to fight back after the province introduced a bill to strip away some bargaining rights from an estimated 200,000 workers.

CALGARY — Dennis Kadatz, a man considered the father of the University of Calgary's athletic program, died Monday at age 80. The University of Calgary announced Kadatz's death in a statement Thursday.

Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the decision.

EDMONTON — For all of the changes to their roster, the most significant difference with the Edmonton Eskimos this season will be their approach on defence under new co-ordinator Phillip Lolley, starting against the Montreal Alouettes at Commonwealth

EDMONTON — A man convicted for his role in the shooting deaths of four Mounties in rural Alberta is no longer subject to parole conditions.

CALGARY — A man convicted of killing a Calgary Stampeders football player is appealing both his conviction and his sentence. Nelson Lugela was found guilty earlier this year of second-degree murder in the death of Mylan Hicks.

CALGARY — The head of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers criticized the country's environment minister Thursday for comments he said shows she is "disrespectful" of the energy industry.

COCHRANE, Alta. — There'll be no need for ashtrays in one Alberta town on the weekend if residents take up a retiring pharmacist's call for all smokers to butt out for 24 hours.

PROVOST, Alta. — Two seniors from Kitchener, Ont., have been killed in a highway crash in east-central Alberta.

VULCAN, Alta. — A woman in southern Alberta has been charged after she allegedly tried to mail a puppy and a kitten via Canada Post.