Notley government

• Canadian oil prices to improve, curtailment to end in 2020: forecast

  Curtailment has done its job to help Alberta oil prices and the latter half of 2020 should see Canada's oil and gas industry improve, according to Deloitte.

  Economy

  Jan 7, 2020
  
• Pipelines, economic diversification and a path to balanced budgets among Alberta throne speech highlights

  The energy sector will be the focal point for much of the upcoming session of the Alberta Legislature.

  Politics

  Mar 8, 2018
  
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• Alberta and Ottawa to help fund carbon conversion test facility in Calgary

  The Alberta government and the federal government are each providing $10 million to help build a test facility in Calgary for technologies that convert carbon dioxide emissions into usable products.

  Economy

  Mar 4, 2017
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• Alberta throne speech promises slashing of school fees

  The Alberta government says its first job of the spring sitting of the legislature will be to cut school fees.

  Education

  Mar 2, 2017
• Energy management consultant calls residential no-charge energy savings program a waste of time

  One energy management consultant thinks the new energy-saving measures by the Alberta government will be ineffective.

  Consumer

  Mar 1, 2017
• Mayor Don Iveson ‘encouraged’ by federal-provincial cooperation on affordable housing

  Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson said he was "really encouraged by the cooperation we've seen so far between these two orders of government" at a joint press conference held by the federal and Alberta governments Friday to announce how money is being directed into affordable housing initiatives in the province's capital.

  Politics

  Dec 17, 2016
• Alberta government setting up all-party committee to examine child’s death after being in kinship care

  The Alberta government is setting up an all-party committee to explore the circumstances surrounding the death of four-year-old girl who was in government care.

  Politics

  Dec 1, 2016
• Notley government set to cap oilsands emissions

  The legal rubber has hit the road on Alberta's promise to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands — the engine of the province's economy.

  Politics

  Nov 1, 2016
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• Wildrose leader Brian Jean blasts NDP at party’s AGM: ‘They’ve waged a war on business’

  Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, in a rousing speech Friday to party members, lamented an Alberta he says has been driven to dysfunction and dystopia by Premier Rachel Notley's NDP government.

  Politics

  Oct 29, 2016
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• Alberta climate change non-profit takes new name, earmarks $40M to cut GHGs

  A government-funded and industry-supported climate change non-profit - created in 2009 - announced Friday it planned to spend millions of dollars more to advance technologies aimed at reducing methane emissions across the province.

  Environment

  Oct 21, 2016