The expulsion of six Indian diplomats from Canada, following allegations from the RCMP that the India's diplomatic corps was involved in extortions and even murders within Canada’s borders, has provoked a still-developing international crisis.

But that crisis must seem especially chaotic to online readers of Canada’s news publications who were told last Wednesday that Canada’s most well-known Sikh political figure, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, had died on live television.

Melissa Costigan just wanted to help the police resolve a situation. 

The City of Edmonton has spent nearly $225,000 on fencing off former encampment sites in the first nine months of 2024. In the entirety of last year, by contrast, the city spent just over $3,400 fencing off former encampment sites. 

Maybe it’s Danielle Smith that’s finally going to get to the bottom of this chemtrail business. 

Anti-genocide campaigners are calling for Edmontonians to act now to avoid having water meters installed in their homes made by an Israeli company that profits from the ongoing genocide and apartheid taking place in Palestine.

Jeremy Appel has a story for us this week that you have to read. It’s investigative reporting on what privatizing healthcare looks like in real time. The headline: AHS pressured health-care workers to transfer mentally ill patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart.

Since 2021, Alberta Health Services management has pressured health-care professionals at two downtown Edmonton mental health clinics to transfer their patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart, the Progress Report has learned.

An arbitrator has ruled that while Mount Royal University overstepped by dismissing Frances Widdowson, who critics have called a “residential school denialist,” her actions since “irreparably damaged” her relationship with MRU so badly that she doesn’t get to have her job back. 

Danielle Smith and her cabinet were exultant after the federal Liberals caved to corporate pressure and ordered striking rail workers back to work last weekend. 

Edmonton police assisted a landlord with an eviction in 2022, despite the tenant having received a court-sanctioned delay the previous day, the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) heard on July 18. 

Ryan Hampton is appealing the acting Edmonton Police Service (EPS) chief’s decision to clear the officers who removed him from his apartment on Sept. 24, 2022, arguing that the cops inappropriately involved themselves in a civil matter, in contradiction of EPS policy.