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CANADA | Jun 23, 2026

Congratulations to the City of Grande Prairie on your Alberta Age-Friendly Recognition Award

the City of Grande Prairie was recognized with the Age-Friendly Alberta Recognition Award. The award recognizes communities that are taking meaningful steps to support older adults by creating inclusive, accessible, and supportive environments.

Budget 2022: Increasing health-care capacity, surgeries

Budget 2022 commits a total of $3.5 billion for health facilities, equipment and IT systems to expand health-care capacity for Albertans no matter where they live and create thousands of good-paying j

Seniors Now Owed Paper Bills From Communications Service Providers

Canada’s Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission recently decided that communications service providers, including phone and cable companies, must provide paper bills upon reques

Alberta's historic heat wave last summer responsible for 66 deaths: report

The historic heatwave of 2021 resulted in 66 deaths across Alberta. Calgary's Emergency Management Committee received these findings in a disaster risk report sharing information on how high temperat

Red Deer hospital $1.8B expansion builds for the future

Alberta’s government will invest $1.8 billion to redevelop and expand the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre as part of the province’s strategy to increase health care capacity, providing central A

Price Check: Four-in-five say they've changed food buying habits because of increasing costs

The latest report on food prices and consumer behaviours as a result from the Angus Reid Institute finds that as rising food prices take a bite out of Canadians’ budgets, four-in-five people are cha

Jobs and health care are focus of throne speech

Albertans will benefit from legislation this spring to create jobs, improve health care, keep streets safe and support the most vulnerable. Bill 1, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Recognition

Marking a milestone with First Nation health partners

Immunization records for First Nation members are now reliably accessible in real time, marking an important step to help reduce preventable disease. After a decade of collaborative work, First Natio

Household food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in fall 2020, about 1 in 10 Canadians (9.6%) said they experienced food insecurity in their household because of financial constraints. This prop

Boosting economic recovery through immigration

Two new immigration streams will help rural communities grow by attracting skilled newcomers. At the inaugural Premier’s Summit on Fairness for Newcomers, Premier Jason Kenney announced the launch