Calgary lawyers who had Manitoba judge followed fight disbarment | Citizen scientists sought to catch mosquitoes, help monitor disease-carrying species | Poll suggests Alberta voters' honeymoon with Danielle Smith and UCP endures
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Calgary lawyers who had Manitoba judge followed fight disbarment; Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyers Jay Cameron, left, and president John Carpay, right, face law society charges connected to the surveillance of Manitoba's Court of King's Bench chief justice\.

Calgary lawyers who had Manitoba judge followed fight disbarment

May 28 , 2025 at 05:16:23 p.m. MDT • :

The two Calgary lawyers who hired a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge who'd been presiding over their court challenge of COVID-19 public health restrictions should be disbarred for their dishonourable professional conduct, argued counsel for the Law Society of Alberta on Wednesday.
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Citizen scientists sought to catch mosquitoes, help monitor disease-carrying species; John Soghigian, an assistant professor in the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, holds up the instructions for citizen scientists to take part in his lab's research\.

Citizen scientists sought to catch mosquitoes, help monitor disease-carrying species

May 28 , 2025 at 06:35:01 p.m. MDT • :

As mosquito season ramps up, the University of Calgary and the city are calling on citizen scientists to help them study the potential health impacts of the invasive northern house mosquito.
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Poll suggests Alberta voters' honeymoon with Danielle Smith and UCP endures; UCP Leader Danielle Smith delivers a speech in Calgary on May 29, 2023, following her party's victory in the provincial election\. CBC News polling suggests the premier continues to hang on to the support that propelled her to a majority\.

Poll suggests Alberta voters' honeymoon with Danielle Smith and UCP endures

May 28 , 2025 at 10:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

Two years after Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party defeated Rachel Notley's Alberta New Democrats, CBC News polling suggests Smith's party would win more seats now than compared to two years ago.
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Man dies after shooting in southwest Calgary; Calgary police were dispatched to Patterson Close S\.W\. after a call around 8:40 a\.m\. Tuesday\.

Man dies after shooting in southwest Calgary

May 27 , 2025 at 11:05:41 a.m. MDT • :

One man is dead and one woman was sent to hospital after a shooting in a southwest Calgary community Tuesday morning, police reported.
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Carney met with former prime minister Harper on day of throne speech: sources; Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney looks on as Prime Minister Stephen Harper opens a meeting at the World Economic Forum in 2013\. Sources tell CBC News the two met on Tuesday when Harper was in Ottawa to attend the throne speech\.

Carney met with former prime minister Harper on day of throne speech: sources

May 28 , 2025 at 10:43:21 a.m. MDT • :

During a visit to Ottawa to watch the King deliver the speech from the throne, former prime minister Stephen Harper met privately with Prime Minister Mark Carney, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Review finds no evidence of 'unprofessional conduct' in Calgary water main break; The Bearspaw south feeder main, the pipe that transfers the majority of the city's treated water, ruptured on June 5, 2024\. According to an independent review, the city's engineers and geoscientists were not responsible for the incident\.  

May 28 , 2025 at 06:13:05 p.m. MDT • :

Review finds no evidence of 'unprofessional conduct' in Calgary water main break

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'Slap in the face': Moms of kids who got sick during E. coli outbreak upset with $10K fine; From left to right, Kyla Herman, Whitney Mercer and Sarah MacDonald attended court on Tuesday as the company at the centre of Calgary's daycare E\. coli outbreak was handed a \$10,000 fine for a bylaw offence\. The women's children were some of the nearly 450 people infected in 2023\.  

May 27 , 2025 at 05:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

'Slap in the face': Moms of kids who got sick during E. coli outbreak upset with $10K fine

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How one company plans to suck carbon right out of the air (and make money doing it); A worker walks past a tent at Deep Sky's Innisfail, Alta\., testing site boasting the company's logo\. Carbon dioxide that is scrubbed from the air by various technologies being tested at the site will be sent to a system within the tent that will compress it for underground storage\.  

May 28 , 2025 at 02:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

How one company plans to suck carbon right out of the air (and make money doing it)

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Dangerous fire conditions expected as fight to save Swan Hills continues; Smoke rises from wildfire near Swan Hills\. The fire continues to burn out of control about eight kilometres from the northern Alberta town\.  

May 28 , 2025 at 10:36:21 a.m. MDT • :

Dangerous fire conditions expected as fight to save Swan Hills continues

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Alberta judge calls for changes after man kills wife days after leaving mental health centre; Jesslyn Fenton was murdered at age 25 in November 2018\. A fatality inquiry was held to examine the circumstances of her death\.  

May 26 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

Alberta judge calls for changes after man kills wife days after leaving mental health centre

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May 28 , 2025 at 11:51:21 a.m. MDT • :

Doctors group challenging constitutionality of Alberta transgender law

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May 28 , 2025 at 10:49:31 a.m. MDT • :

Alberta policies have dampened investor confidence in renewables: report

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May 27 , 2025 at 03:50:36 p.m. MDT • :

Sweltering temperatures expected as heat warnings issued for most of Alberta

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May 28 , 2025 at 03:03:24 p.m. MDT • :

Mayor Gondek wants 'clear line of sight' on province's role in repaying Calgary for G7

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May 28 , 2025 at 02:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

Poll finds Albertans' attachment to Canada has grown as support for separatism has hardened

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