Owners of derelict residential properties cleaning up after new tax subclass introduced
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Opposition charges Alberta government knew of hotel use for assisted living patients at earlier date
Nearly two months ago, the Alberta government launched four investigations into a company that placed people in hospital awaiting assisted-living accommodations into hotels. Today, internal emails shared by the Official Opposition reveal both the province's health and social services ministries received a complaint about the firm, called Contentment Social Services (CSS), months earlier.
'Happy tears' of victim's sister after prison attack on serial killer Robert Pickton
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