A CN Rail train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil has derailed and exploded about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton, prompting an evacuation in the tiny community of Gainford ( Read more... )

Rainbow flags burned outside Fort McMurray pride event

RCMP in Fort McMurray are investigating after two rainbow flags were burned outside the first gay pride event in the northern Alberta city.
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It gets better later. But you could stand to be a little less gay now.

Such is the message that has an Alberta school trustee apologizing today after the "inappropriate" remark was made during a board meeting earlier this week.

The CBC reports that the Alberta School Boards Association was debating a proposal that would protect gay students from ( Read more... )

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The Wildrose Party, a political upstart made up of largely angry white people, sketchy Tories and climate change deniers, seems posed to replace the incompetent bunch of Conservative libertarians, panjandrums and climate change skeptics who have run Alberta into the groundAlberta's media have compared Wild Rose leader Danielle Smith to Sarah Palin ( Read more... )

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

China officially declassified it 5 years ago.

But in 2012, it appears Canada's most conservative province still hasn't.

According to a story by PostMedia News, doctors in Alberta can still bill the province for treating homosexuality as a mental disorder " ( Read more... )

EDMONTON - A 17-year-old girl has been given a conditional discharge for having unprotected sex with two teenagers without disclosing her HIV-positive status.

The girl, who cannot be identified, was living on Edmonton streets when she met the two male youths in the spring of 2011. Both of them were homeless as well. The teen twice had drunken sexual ( Read more... )

EDMONTON - Luke Fevin likes to call himself an atheist. Secularism and the science method are his creed and credo. So when he and his wife, who live in St. Albert, sought out a school for their three young children, they knew they wanted a public, secular school, one where their own beliefs and values would be respected.

The couple chose Sturgeon ( Read more... )

Edmonton teen needed help, not a virtual posse hunting her down

EDMONTON - Last Friday afternoon, the Edmonton Police Service issued an urgent news bulletin. Officers were on the lookout for suspect accused of at least two cases of aggravated sexual assault.

Police released the suspect’s name and photograph to every media outlet, and posted it on the ( Read more... )

The other morning I took a call, like so many other calls I’ve taken over the last four years, from another Dakota farmer wondering how his land may be affected by the Keystone XL pipeline. He had a notice of condemnation and interrogatories from TransCanada in hand, and I wish I’d had better news for him. He’s in the path of a monster. Keystone XL ( Read more... )