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Calgary, Alberta
Joined January 2009
As Meta cuts off access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, you will still be able to access our journalism on other platforms. Read our Editor’s Blog for all the ways you can stay connected with CBC News: .
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Some readers are getting a preview of what social media and search engines will look like without Canadian news as tech companies make good on threats to eliminate it from platforms following federal...
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Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has been signalling the move was coming after the government passed its Online News Act, Bill C-18, in June.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has been signalling the move was coming after the government passed its Online News Act, Bill C-18, in June.
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The sale of streets drugs laced with animal tranquilizers is taking its toll. In recent weeks, EMS responses to opioid-related events have neared record levels.
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The sale of streets drugs laced with animal tranquilizers is taking its toll. In recent weeks, EMS responses to opioid-related events have neared record levels.
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More than 100 Alberta physicians have signed an open letter condemning the move by Alberta Health Services to rescind a job offer to Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
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More than 100 Alberta physicians have signed an open letter condemning the move by Alberta Health Services to rescind a job offer to Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
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Expectations were high for this development next to the University of Calgary. So far, it's living up to its billing.
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The reality of finding a place to live in the city has changed so much, so quickly, that people who haven't been actively looking might not recognize what it's like these days.
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The challenges in finding a place to live have grown so much — and so quickly — that people who haven't been actively looking for a new home might not recognize what it's like these days.
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Calgarians looking for a decent place to live say navigating the city's rental market has become an exhausting, demoralizing ordeal.
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For some Calgarians, navigating the city's tight housing market has become an exhausting, demoralizing ordeal.
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A cap on oil-and-gas emissions would not, technically speaking, be a new policy in Alberta; the provincial government has had a cap of its own on the books for the better part of a decade.
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The province's unenforced emissions cap may actually be serving as a shield against a federal policy that many Albertans see as an incursion on their jurisdictional turf —Bill C-69, the Impact...
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#BREAKING: Alberta's United Conservative Party has been elected for a second term, CBC News projects.
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Four years after winning its first election, the United Conservative Party will once again form Alberta's government. A victorious Premier Danielle Smith promised late Monday she will work for people...
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Follow all of CBC Calgary's 2023 provincial election coverage by visiting You can track the results live here at
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As much as politicos hype up leaders' debates as major turning points in a campaign, they so rarely are, writes CBC's Jason Markusoff in an analysis.
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In the election campaign's lone debate, neither leader appeared to get rattled, for all the scorn the rivals tried to heap on each other about their pasts.
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The leaders of Alberta's two largest political parties face off Thursday in a live debate that could help undecided voters make up their minds about who to vote for on May 29.
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It's not your imagination. It's not recency bias. It's real: Calgary summers are way smokier than they used to be.
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It's not your imagination. It's not recency bias. It's real: Calgary summers are way smokier than they used to be.
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An air quality alert was extended Tuesday morning to cover the city of Calgary as smoke from wildfires burning across Western Canada has descended on parts of southern Alberta, replacing the bluebird sky with an eerie orange glow.
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An air quality alert was extended Tuesday morning to cover the city of Calgary as smoke from wildfires burning across Western Canada has descended on parts of southern Alberta.
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The WestJet Group says it will lock out the airline's pilots after their union sent a 72-hour strike notice to the company and government Monday night, setting the stage for a work stoppage right before the May long weekend.
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WestJet says it will lock out the airline's pilots after their union sent a 72-hour strike notice to the company and government Monday night, setting the stage for a work stoppage right before the...
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Fending off Ottawa may be an Alberta staple, but it's not an election issue this time. A look at why and when voters have an appetite for that fight — and why they don't care about it in 2023.
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Rich Kruger's appointment as Suncor's leader comes at a time when the major oilsands producers are collectively progressing toward making a sizeable financial commitment to reduce emissions from their operations in northern Alberta.
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In December, after six years on a waiting list, Courtney Townsend finally secured a $900 provincial rental subsidy to help keep her and her kids in their home. Then in March, she was notified of an $800 rent increase — essentially wiping out the subsidy.
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In December, after six years on a waiting list, Courtney Townsend finally secured a $900 provincial rental subsidy to help keep her and her kids in their home. Then in March, she was notified of an...
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#OPINION: In social work, a client must feel empowered to make their own decisions. The same applies to a province, argues Matthew Morin.
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In social work, a client must feel empowered to make their own decisions. The same applies to a province, argues Matthew Morin. He wrote this opinion piece as part of a series of personal essays the...
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RT @CBCNews: "Today, the CBC will resume some activity on a handful of Twitter accounts, including @CBCNews, but we will significantly redu….
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Last week marked the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, proclaimed in 1993 to reinforce the intrinsic relationship of a free press to all other human rights. What better time to reflect on...
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