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[published_date] Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has announced $21.5 million in federal funding for five Alberta projects that aim to lower the cost of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions. The projects are being funded under the Energy Innovation Program, which put out a call for carbon capture, utilization and storage technology proposals. Bow Valley…

[published_date] Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says the federal government is talking to mining and metals giant Rio Tinto about helping the company with cash flow problems caused by the United States' global steel and aluminum tariffs. During a visit to Saguenay, Que., on Thursday to meet with businesses in the province's aluminum sector, Joly told…

[published_date] Plane-leasing companies that seized four aircraft from Flair Airlines in 2023 are seeking damages from the budget carrier, alleging it failed to make rent payments by the deadline and ignored repeated default notices. The allegations were detailed in a statement of defence and counterclaim for $30.9 million US filed in Ontario Superior Court on…

[published_date] Calgary · Photos The 113th annual Calgary Stampede kicked off Friday as huge crowds gathered to watch the Stampede parade, led by Canadian country-pop icon Shania Twain. Canadian country-pop icon Shania Twain participated as parade marshal CBC News · Posted: Jul 04, 2025 2:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8…

[published_date] Real estate watchers in the Greater Toronto Area are hoping a recovery may be underway as figures for June showed signs that activity could be stabilizing after a sluggish first half of 2025. Home sales in the region ticked 2.4 per cent lower in June compared with a year earlier, as 6,243 properties changed…

[published_date] Greater Toronto Area-home sales ticked 2.4 percent lower in June compared with a year earlier as 6,243 properties changed hands, while new listings rose. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) said sales were up 8.1 per cent from May on a seasonally adjusted month-over month basis, as the housing market "continued to show signs…

[published_date] The mayor of a small B.C. town on the Alaska border is sounding the alarm because she says her community doesn't have access to ambulance service — and she doesn't know when it's coming back. Angela Brand Danuser, the mayor of Stewart, B.C., a district of about 500 people, about 515 kilometres northwest of Prince George, said…

[published_date] As the Calgary Stampede kicks off, health experts are warning about the risk of measles exposure and are urging parents with babies and unimmunized children — along with other vulnerable Albertans — to sit this one out. The Stampede attracts travellers from all over Alberta and around the world. This year organizers expect more than 1.3 million people will…

[published_date] When Prime Minister Mark Carney met with automotive sector CEOs Wednesday about U.S. trade negotiations, one of the key issues the industry said they wished to discuss was the government's zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate. The mandate requires a certain percentage of light duty vehicles — passenger cars, SUVs and trucks — that are sold to…

[published_date] Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's path back to the House of Commons runs through a rural Alberta riding that has become a hotbed for Western discontent and the independence movement — a potentially tricky situation to navigate for a leader with national ambitions. Poilievre, a Calgarian by birth who has lived away from Alberta for…

[published_date] For the past 10 months, Toronto student Danial Young rose at 6 a.m. on weekdays to attend a program vastly different from what he'd known, leaving friends and familiar teachers behind as he ventured into new spaces and was challenged to develop new skills.  Yet on a sweltering day in late June, as the 20-year-old turned the…

[published_date] Wabana Mayor Philip Tobin proudly displays a glass filled with clean, clear drinking water. (Terry Roberts/CBC)An unhealthy municipal water system in the Bell Island community of Wabana is slowly being rid of contaminants like arsenic, manganese and iron, with 150 households being removed this week from a quarter-century-old boil order. Town leaders surprised more than 160…