Local family pleads for province to support costly life-saving treatment for their son
A local family is looking to the provincial government to fund a pricey, but life changing treatment for a rare disease.

A local family is looking to the provincial government to fund a pricey, but life changing treatment for a rare disease.
A 66-year-old man and the driving company he worked for are facing four charges after a runaway wheel unit from his transport struck another vehicle on October 28, 2020.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw reported 1,857 COVID-19 cases on Thursday — Alberta's third highest one-day count since the pandemic began.
Edmonton Police have located the remains of a 30-year-old Edmonton woman reported missing on December 28, 2020.
A new bill could mean Albertans would have to prove gross negligence in order to sue a care home or hospital where their loved one contracted and died from COVID-19.
Firefighters recovered a body from the North Saskatchewan River Thursday night and now police are trying to determine who it is and how it got there.
Alberta revoked a long-standing policy that protected its mountains and foothills from open-pit coal mines without considering how that might affect its most popular tourist attraction, a government official has acknowledged.
For the first time, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) will have an Indigenous Elder in Residence to help build community relationships and offer access to Indigenous knowledge.
Ian Kruger's pharmacy in Cochrane has the space and the staff to administer and store COVID-19 vaccines, but there's no supply and he doesn't know when his next shipment will show up.
The federal government is imposing a 30-day ban on all commercial and private flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday at 11:30 p.m. EST, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in those countries.
Canada could be administering 3.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a week, but well into what the federal government has coined the 'ramp-up' phase of Canada's vaccine rollout, the number of shots coming into Canada most weeks is still below what provinces and territories are capable of putting into arms, according to the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Maj. Kellie Brennan says she was subject to unfair power imbalances throughout her years with the Canadian Armed Forces, including those in her relationship with former defence chief General Jonathan Vance, who she says fathered two children with her.
The federal labour minister says the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to give workers the ability to avoid work emails and text messages as the lines between home and work lives blur.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the 2021 federal budget marks a historic level of investment in Indigenous communities, but he acknowledges much of this spending addresses systemic funding gaps and that longer-term, sustained spending will need to continue.
CTV’s Annie Bergeron-Oliver has details about a 'boys club culture' inside Canada’s armed forces after one witness spoke out.
Ont. Premier Doug Ford apologizes for his sweeping new public health measures that he says, 'went too far.'
A Massachusetts family settles a decades-long rumour and finds some cold hard cash in the process.
A B.C. man's life took an unexpected turn after the discovery of a birth certificate from Scotland.
A Canadian billionaire is hoping people will ditch their cars for a smaller three-wheeled electric vehicle.
Some construction companies are now turning to 3D printing to build homes in a fast, cheap and sustainable way.
A Vancouver Island man has kept himself busy during the pandemic by designing and building a luxury treehouse.
It's been 40 years since well-known meteorologist David Spence broadcast his first weather forecast from the CTV News Calgary station.
Amanda Stubbs was walking on a U.K. beach when she was forced to run from a huge landslide.