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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces new COVID-19 measures for Alberta in Calgary, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta caves on vaccine passports as health system nears collapse

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, facing a COVID-19 crisis that is threatening to collapse its health system in just over a week, has reintroduced limits on gatherings along with elements of a vaccine passport system.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Dean Bennett | News, Politics | September 16th 2021

Federal leaders pitch their affordability plans as inflation hits two-decade high

The question of who would make life more affordable for was Wednesday's hot topic on the campaign trail.

Election 2021

By Jordan Press & Christopher Reynolds | News, Politics | September 16th 2021

Stewart Redsky, former chief of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, walks past one week's worth of 20 litre water bottles in the community's water storage room on Feb. 25, 2015. File photo by The Canadian Press/John Woods

Decades-old water advisory lifted in this Anishinaabe community

Angelina McLeod spent most of her life in Shoal Lake 40 First Nation watching her uncles and her father, Alfred Redsky, a former chief, fight for clean drinking water and a better way of life.

By Brittany Hobson | News, Politics | September 16th 2021

Mainstream media blew Trump coverage — and now risks doing the same with the PPC

If this sort of sympathetic coverage of Maxime Bernier and his PPC seems familiar, that’s because it should, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

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Election 2021

By Max Fawcett | Opinion, Politics | September 16th 2021

Thousands call for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty as UN meeting kicks off

More than 2,000 academics from around the world signed an open letter calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, as the United Nations’ 76th General Assembly kicks off its annual meeting.

By John Woodside | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | September 16th 2021

Conservative leader Erin O'Toole takes a photo with supporters during a campaign stop on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 in Russell, Ontario. Photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Campaign has Trudeau in Halifax, O'Toole in Quebec and Singh in Ontario

The three main party leaders are in Eastern and Central Canada today, September 15, 2021, a day after a new poll suggested the already close race is getting even tighter.

Election 2021

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | September 15th 2021

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, left, speaks in front of the Chittenden County Courthouse, in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Vermont sues oil companies for allegedly falsifying climate info

Vermont on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, became the latest state to sue some of the country's top fossil fuel companies by alleging they misled the public about the impact their products have on climate change.

Race Against Climate Change

By Wilson Ring | News, US News, Energy, Politics | September 15th 2021

Protesters gather outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, in Chevy Chase, Md., Photo by The Associated Press/Jose Luis Magana

UN experts speak out against 'regressive' Texas abortion law

A "regressive" abortion ban in Texas has left the United States in violation of international law, and the Supreme Court — the ultimate guardian of the landmark 1973 ruling that makes it legal — is complicit, a United Nations expert panel declared on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

By James McCarten | News, US News, Politics | September 15th 2021

Protesters hold signs on the side of the road as seen through the window of a motorcade vehicle traveling with President Joe Biden to the Flatirons Campus of the NREL, on Sept. 14, 2021, in Arvanda, Colo. Photo by The Associated Press/Evan Vucci

Biden in Colorado to pitch spending plan as key in fight against climate change

President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans on Colorado on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, by warning about climate change's dangers while highlighting how his clean-energy proposals would also create good-paying jobs.

Race Against Climate Change

By Alexandra Jaffe & Jonathan Lemire | News, US News, Politics | September 15th 2021

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, makes her way to the podium to provide an update on COVID-19 and back-to-school guidance in Edmonton on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

Alberta's chief medical health officer takes the blame for crushing fourth wave

Alberta's top doctor says the province's "Open For Summer" plan set the trajectory for a crushing fourth wave of COVID-19, which her predecessor warns is leading to an "acute care system breakdown."

Coronavirus in Canada

By Alanna Smith & Dean Bennett | News, Politics | September 15th 2021

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