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• 'It's a backwards move': Canada Post closes office in small Alberta town

  Residents in a hamlet east of Calgary will now need to drive out of town to pick up their mail after Canada Post decided to close the community's post office.

  

• Alberta shut down 21 day homes in two years due to 'imminent threats' to children: provincial data

  Child safety advocates are urging the province to take a more proactive approach to protecting children at unregulated day homes in Alberta and want to see province-wide rules in place, similar to regulations enacted recently by the City of Calgary.

  

• Parks Canada protecting Banff and Lake Louise with fire break

  Parks Canada is creating a 32.8-hectare fire guard at Protection Mountain on Highway 1A in Banff National Park to reduce the risk of wildfire to the community of Lake Louise and the surrounding area.

  

• Alberta promising campus changes amid university 'woke' free speech standoff

  The Alberta government says changes are coming to further protect free speech on campuses as a former professor speaking out on so-called “woke” policies prepares for a showdown with the University of Lethbridge.

  

• Ottawa, Alberta expanding $10/day daycare plan to include 22,500 new private spaces

  Alberta's UCP government celebrated a victory in "parental choice in child care" Tuesday while announcing that a nationwide effort to make daycare more affordable will also include thousands of new privately-operated spaces in the province.

• Orkin Canada fined $27,500 for chemical use near Calgary park

  A pest control company has been fined after it admitted it illegally used a pesticide near an off-leash dog park in Calgary almost two years ago.

• Nature Conservancy of Canada acquires land for conservation near Waterton Lakes National Park

  The newly acquired land will act as a wildlife corridor, allowing wildlife such as elk, bears and deer to move more safely around the region.

• CP Rail earns $1.27 billion, revenues up 21 per cent in fourth quarter

  Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it earned $1.27 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with $532 million in the same period of 2021.

• Crews seal gas leak in Airdrie's Bayside neighbourhood

  Several homes were evacuated in the southwest neighbourhood of Bayside in Airdrie following a Tuesday morning gas leak.

• 'Queer Eye' star Jonathan Van Ness among headliners at Calgary comedy festival

  The 2023 festival will be held at Prince's Island Park on Saturday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Aug. 27.

• Alleged driver in crash west of Calgary that killed 2 teens to appear in court in February

  The court case for a teenage girl accused of being behind the wheel in a crash that killed her younger sister and a friend has been adjourned until February.

• Calgary police seek missing man last seen on New Year's Day

  Calgary police are looking for help locating a man who hasn't been heard from since the start of the year.

• Calgary senior located after Marlborough Park disappearance

  The Calgary Police Service confirms a 76-year-old man who went missing Monday afternoon has been located.

• Calgary man searching for group that helped him immigrate to Canada 3 decades ago

  Ivo Ceko was a member of a military police unit that was guarding a hotel in a town in central Bosnia when he met a group of young Canadians and Americans in the summer of 1994.