Edmonton pilot project could allow drinking in some city-owned parks
A city report says 71 per cent of the more than 15,000 responses to an online survey were supportive of allowing alcohol consumption in parks.

A city report says 71 per cent of the more than 15,000 responses to an online survey were supportive of allowing alcohol consumption in parks.
Cities have been the home to the balance of Alberta's COVID-19 cases but surrounding towns and smaller communities are feeling the effects of the third wave.
Alberta reported 1,646 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest single-day count since mid-December.
A fire official admits crews are "frustrated" after receiving four rescue calls for dogs wandering out onto North Saskatchewan River ice on Wednesday.
An Edmonton man and his dogs were minding their own business when they found out the hard way how territorial and aggressive geese can be.
NDP MLA Thomas Dang spoke out Wednesday night about a racist parody account that linked him to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the Wu-Tang Clan and described him as “unintelligible.”
The mass vaccination clinic at Edmonton's EXPO Centre administered a fraction of the thousands of COVID-19 shots it is capable of on Wednesday.
A Tuesday morning fire destroyed hundreds of hay and straw bales, costing an Alberta farmer thousands.
A large structure fire swept through a commercial building in Stettler, Alta.
The trial for a man charged in the slaying of a family doctor at a central Alberta medical clinic is going ahead as scheduled.
More than 3,000 patients’ electronic health records were improperly accessed at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.
Mounties say that an investigation by the explosives disposal unit found no explosive devices in or around a vehicle at 103 Hermary Street.
A large rock was thrown through the window of Adriana LaGrange’s constituency office in Red Deer Tuesday, according to the education minister.
EE Football Team veteran Ryan King has called it a career after eight seasons with the Canadian Football League club.
The 2021 Memorial Cup has been cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenseman Dmitry Kulikov from the New Jersey Devils on Monday in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.
Jill Macyshon has the story of a former Winnipeg grocery store worker finding popularity on TikTok sharing his satirical stories.
A U.S. diver stumbled upon a wedding ring while in a river, luckily for the owner who had been looking for the lost band.
An eight-day period of national mourning for the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is underway in the U.K.
A Cyclone helicopter made a precautionary landing at Nova Scotia's Rainbow Haven Provincial Park after noticing a cockpit indication.
The app, created by Indigenous Vision, shares the locations of historical Blackfoot land sites throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana and Wyoming.
A territorial goose attacks an unsuspecting Edmonton man and his two dogs Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
A man who was shot in New York while at a tribute for DMX took cover in the vehicle of the news crew that was covering the event.
'It's unconscionable': U.S. sitting on millions of doses
Dr. Alex Patel, an Ont. critical care physician, says he knows of three patients who turned down the vaccine and later ended up in ICU.
A U.S. software engineer hopes to use VR to fight racism and highlight the dangers faced by Black drivers. Reuter's Francesca Lynagh reports.
Pierre Lévesque filmed police in Sorel-Tracy, Que., as they used road spikes to stop an allegedly stolen truck on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce Friday that Canada will be receiving more Pfizer vaccine doses, earlier than expected, coming just as the federal government has announced that the next planned Moderna shipment is going to be less than promised.
Ontario has logged more than 4,800 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in the pandemic, breaking a record for the most daily infections for a second day in a row.
The Canadian Medical Association is calling for 'extraordinary measures' to be implemented to address the surge of COVID-19 cases across several provinces.
A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic.
A major home construction company in the Greater Toronto Area says it will be reviewing site security procedures after a party involving a stripper was held at one of its houses under construction last weekend.
A new Twitter account run by volunteers is helping Canadians who are having a hard time finding available vaccination appointments.
A few weeks into what the federal government has billed as the 'ramp-up' phase of Canada's mass vaccination effort, the rollout is still being plagued by delays in Moderna shipments and lingering uncertainty about when and how many doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's shots will land.
An Ontario doctor is urging people to get a COVID-19 vaccine once a jab becomes available to them after he admitted three patients who turned down shots to the ICU.
When Prince Philip's coffin is conveyed to church for his funeral service, it will be taken in a specially-commissioned Land Rover that the British royal himself helped design.