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Man charged in abduction of Edmonton girl

EDMONTON — Police charged a 44-year-old Edmonton man Monday with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl who had been the subject of an Amber Alert the day before. Daniel Todd Gratton was arrested without...

Alta.'s energy boom cooling in face of falling oil prices, cancelled projects

EDMONTON - Plummeting oil prices and the stock market meltdown have raised concern that Alberta's energy boom may be heading for a bust. But Finance Minister Iris Evans and other senior politicians...

Premier promises crackdown on crime will 'push the envelope'

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach vowed Saturday to crack down on gangs and prostitution in the province. Stelmach said Alberta plans to "push the envelope" when it comes to criminal investigations. He said the province will look at...

Slick hackers wormed their way into Alberta's computers, report says

EDMONTON — Weak computer security across the Alberta government allowed sophisticated hackers to worm their way into the system, Auditor-General Fred Dunn reported yesterday. Mr. Dunn says the hackers, possibly criminals from...

Albertans' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor

By Jim Macdonald, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - Alberta's highly touted climate-change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday. "Alberta...

Province of British Columbia: Safe, Secure Communities Focus Of B.C.-Alberta Meeting

PRINCE GEORGE - An agreement that will see B.C. and Alberta co-operate to enhance community safety and team up to tackle gang crime and repeat offenders was one of the highlights of the sixth British Columbia-Alberta joint...

Police fear vigilantism after Alberta girl slain

RCMP were urging people in a tough energy town in western Alberta not to take the law into their own hands as more than 30 Mounties scoured the region for a man who killed the 14-year-old daughter of a pastor and left her...

Alberta says Tory bitumen export promise could affect oilsands investment

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CALGARY _ Prime Minister Stephen Harper's election promise to restrict the export of bitumen outside of Canada could affect investment in the oilsands and infringe on Alberta's jurisdiction...

U.S. Congress upholds restrictions on high-carbon fuels

Mining trucks carry loads of oil-laden sand after being loaded by huge shovels at the Albian Sands oilsands project in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2005. (Jeff McIntosh/Associated Press) Fuels derived from Alberta's tarsands...

Oilsands: Fowl play

Andrew Nikiforuk From the September 29, 2008 issue of Canadian Business magazine On a late July morning, 11 members of Greenpeace did what entrepreneurial activists do best: bold ventures. Armed with bolt cutters, the...

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