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CALGARY — The latest in what has been a string of environmental incidents at Canadian oilsands sites was addressed Friday by the CEO of Imperial Oil Ltd.

Alberta road tripping - check out the Iron Horse Trail with its vintage stations, railroad water towers and wooden trestles. And if you time it right in August there are parades, a derby, mud bogs and a Pyrogy festival.

Leading researcher into elderly care alarmed at the appalling state of care offered to the elderly with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

An extension of the water system east and west of Mînî Thnî (Morley), west of Calgary, will give 25 homes safe drinking water after a series of long-term boil water advisories from 2001-2005 and 2006-2014.

An Alberta man was celebrated 50 years with NWP Industries, an oil and fabrication plant where he now works in quality control and answering any and all questions. “He's irreplaceable; his tribal knowledge from being here for 50 years,” said Doug Fenger's colleague at a party to mark five decades on the job.

A firefighter has been killed in northeastern British Columbia, marking the second such fatality in the province this month and the fourth in Canada during this year's record fire season.

Aurora and Joshuah Bolton have been found.

A plane tragedy has claimed six lives near Canmore.

CROWSNEST PASS, Alta. — Mounties say two Alberta hikers have been found dead at the bottom of a ridge at Mount Coulthard, a summit in the Rocky Mountains.

“I didn’t know if I would get better. I didn’t know of anybody who had gone through this and come out the other side. But I’m that person 30 years later,” Matthew Dickson says.