Calgary police say three people were killed and several were injured in a fiery crash Thursday on a busy north-end street that left two city transit buses on fire. Police Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward said it appears to have begun after a transit bus slammed into a car that then hit other vehicles. The bus then bounced off that crash, hit a second bus that hit three more vehicles.
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is encouraging Albertans to head to the polls as 311 polling stations opened Tuesday for the first of five days of advanced voting for the Oct. 19 referendum.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he agrees with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and hopes Alberta stays in Canada. Albertans are set to vote in a referendum on Oct. 19, and one of the 10 questions asks whether the province should stay in Confederation or if there should be a second, binding referendum on separation.
The Alberta premier told a virtual assembly discussing the province's future in Canada that a lot of Albertans are angry, but it would be a mistake to separate now that progress is being made with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sept. 19.
A judge has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on vulnerable women at a rural home near Calgary. Richard Robert Mantha was convicted of six offences, including drugging one of his victims, that happened between 2019 and 2023.
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