Beyond Local

Trails Act would allow some trails to be designated for specific uses, such as hiking or for off-highway vehicles.

“We are all relieved that Karsten has such amazing medical care and will be back in the community doing the things he loves,” said friend Colleen Campbell

One student taken to hospital as a precaution and may have concussion; otherwise, no injuries reported

Just days before opening for the season, skiers, boarders and tubers wanting to access local ski slopes will either have to follow Alberta's Restrictions Exemption Program or provide vaccination verification at three of the four resorts this winter.

Local authorities acted quickly to rescue an injured BASE jumper stuck on the side of EEOR on Sunday.

The visibility of property taxes makes it more challenging for municipalities to raise the rates, says an expert on municipal finance.

Michael Houghton, the institute's other director and a Nobel laureate, said the initiative would focus on so-called "small-molecule" drugs — chemically-synthesized drugs that make up the great majority of what's in people's medicine cabinets. Ibuprofen, for example, is a small-molecule drug.

Questions about what to do with the national flag have surfaced in the lead-up to Remembrance Day, an occasion on which it has traditionally been lowered to half-mast as a tribute to soldiers who died while serving Canada.

While Canada has more than 17.5 million shots of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine in federal and provincial freezers, the doses being donated to COVAX will not come from that supply. Instead, Canada is donating the remainder of doses paid for but not yet received, which means it's up to the suppliers to provide the delivery schedule.

The goal, the report said, would be to allow more money for front-line enforcement and give communities more say in how they are policed.