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Suncor employee killed by bear in Alberta
An employee at Suncor Energy’s main oil sands operation was killed by a black bear Wednesday. The woman, whose name has not been released, was attacked by a bear in the early afternoon. According to the Globe & Mail, when the RCMP responded to the call, “the male bear was still in the area and it was ‘shot and killed by RCMP members.’”
Neil Young was right about Hiroshima, says woman who knows Hiroshima
Maybe before everyone from Rex Murphy to Alberta premier Alison Redford piled on Neil Young for his statement that the Alberta oil sands “look like Hiroshima,” they should have spoken to someone who actually knows what both places look like.
620,000 patients’ information lost as unencrypted laptop stolen
On Oct. 1, Medicentre, a company that runs primary care clinics throughout Alberta, reported stolen a laptop that contained 620,000 patients’ information. The theft actually occurred on Sept. 26, and no one seems sure why there was a delay in reporting the laptop stolen.
Alberta MLA caught in prostitution sting
Mike Allen, the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo constituency, was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota on Sunday evening. He had responded to a prostitution ad that was actually part of a sting operation by local police. He was one of 13 men caught in the operation, though he was probably the only one in town as a representative of a foreign government on a trip to discuss energy and trade.
Alberta hunters desperate to start killing grizzly bears again
Environmentalists are up in arms yet again as ranchers in Alberta are calling on the province to reinstate an annual grizzly bear hunt in the province, on hold since 2006 due to dwindling populations.
Liberal MP David McGuinty said a thing about Alberta and now we’re all going to get stupider
David McGuinty sure isn’t helping the Liberal Party in Alberta. In a Commons committee meeting, he basically told all the Tory MPs from Wild Rose Country to get the oil companies’ dicks out of their mouths.
Alberta continues perfecting the art of oil spills
More oil is pumping out of pipelines and into the wilds of Alberta this week. Earlier this week a pumping station northeast of Edmonton, Alta., sprang a leak sending 230,000 litres, or approximately 1,446 barrels, of oil into the wilds.
Red Deer’s drinking water is about to get really gross after another oil spill in Alberta
A pipeline owned by Plains Midstream Canada burst midstream in the Red Deer River sometime Thursday, pumping between 1,000 and 3,000 barrels of oil into the river.
Globe and Mail endorses PC in Alberta election despite the fact that newspaper endorsements don’t mean anything
With breathtaking arrogance, a bunch of Toronto elitists put down their cocaine-caviar martinis long enough to tell hard-working Albertans what to do, endorsing premier Alison Redford in Monday’s Alberta provincial election.