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So far 61 AHS employees have resigned because of the vaccine policy, including 31 in clinical roles. Eleven were registered nurses.

The federal government has said it now aims for a 40- to 45-per-cent reduction in emissions by 2035. To help meet that target, the government has announced five-year emissions-reductions targets for the oil and gas industry as well as regulations around methane.

The legislation is a response to a growing problem of oil and gas companies, both solvent and insolvent, not paying municipal property taxes. After several years of hard times and low prices in the oilpatch, Rural Municipalities Alberta says those unpaid taxes now total $245 million — about half of which is from companies still operating. 

Doug Schweitzer, when asked by reporters why Kimmel would try to resolve the issue by going to others but not him, did not answer directly. “Not one thing was alleged about me, my conduct, my office, the environment of my office," he said.

The silver lining is that crop prices are very high right now, Ward Toma from the Alberta Canola Producers said, so producers can sell half their crop at double the price and salvage their income for the year. 

Among his first priorities will be legislating or regulating an emissions cap on oil and gas, and then setting targets to force them downward over the next 30 years, in five-year increments.

In the statement of claim, Ariella Kimmel alleged the harassment took place over almost four months starting in October 2020, when she was chief of staff to the minister of jobs, economy, and innovation.

"It is time for Canada to put down its legal sword," said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. "The courts have already ruled, academics have studied, and First Nations have presented solutions to end discriminatory public services for their children," she wrote in a statement Wednesday to The Canadian Press.

The Vatican said in a statement Wednesday that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops invited the Pope to travel to Canada in the "context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples." 

Three years after her son’s body was found in a creek near Billings, Montana, Marion Collin is still searching for answers surrounding her son’s death.