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Students at Banded Peak School in Bragg Creek make beats, learn code and promote equity

Students at Banded Peak School in Bragg Creek make beats, learn code and promote equity

Students at Banded Peak School in Bragg Creek welcomed facilitators, an Indigenous musician, and students from Airdrie into their gymnasium this week to exercise their creative music muscles.
What can Google's AI-powered Bard do? We tested it for you

What can Google's AI-powered Bard do? We tested it for you

To use, or not to use, Bard? That is the Shakespearean question an Associated Press reporter sought to answer while testing out Google's artificially intelligent chatbot.
Kate Beaton's graphic memoir 'Ducks' gives insight into working at Alberta's oilsands

Kate Beaton's graphic memoir 'Ducks' gives insight into working at Alberta's oilsands

When Kate Beaton migrated west to work in Alberta's oilsands, she didn't know what to expect — other than a job that would allow her to pay down her student loans.
Quick spring refreshes: Making the old place feel like new

Quick spring refreshes: Making the old place feel like new

Maybe you had hoped to be in a new home this year but were deterred by high housing prices . Maybe it's just the arrival of spring that's got you looking around your rooms and wanting something fresh.
AGSA exhibition explores flow of Alberta's geological history

AGSA exhibition explores flow of Alberta's geological history

Connected Currents, now on display at Art Gallery of St. Albert, is big, bold and breathtaking.
No atmosphere found at faraway Earth-sized world, study says

No atmosphere found at faraway Earth-sized world, study says

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting another star.
Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark

Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark

William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform.
Child missing after six migrants found dead in river in Akwesasne, near U.S. border

Child missing after six migrants found dead in river in Akwesasne, near U.S. border

QUEBEC — Authorities in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne said an infant is missing after the bodies of six migrants of Indian and Romanian descent were pulled from the St. Lawrence River Thursday.
'Significant step towards reconciliation:' N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP

'Significant step towards reconciliation:' N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP

YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government has introduced a bill to guide implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it says will advance reconciliation in the territory.
'Into the air': One victim of Calgary house explosion likely in hospital for 6 months

'Into the air': One victim of Calgary house explosion likely in hospital for 6 months

CALGARY — A member of Calgary's South Sudanese community says 10 victims of a home explosion were blown into the air before falling into a fiery basement below.
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