Alberta

Evacuation orders have been issued for the Fort McMurray oil hub in Alberta, Canada, as winds shifted, and a massive wildfire approaches.

Canada’s 2024 wildfire season has kicked into high gear with over 120 wildfires in the drought-stricken British Columbia and Alberta regions.

A court in Alberta, Canada, sentenced Pastor Artur Pawlowski on Monday to 60 days in prison for a speech to Freedom Convoy truckers in February 2022 in which he supported their protests against repressive lockdown, vaccine, and other mandates related to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

A Canadian judge on Tuesday found Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski guilty of “mischief” for urging truckers to continue a 2022 protest that blocked the main border crossing in Alberta for two weeks.

Alberta’s conservative Premier, Danielle Smith, has backtracked on prior promises to provide amnesty for those fined under the coronavirus pandemic restrictions, leading to anger among some.

Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and other provinces are refusing to take part in implementing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun grab.

The new premier of the Canadian province of Alberta, Danielle Smith, has apologized for the government mandating vaccine passports during the coronavirus pandemic, telling the annual United Conservative Party conference “we are not QR codes.”

The new Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta has slammed the treatment of unvaccinated people in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic, stating they were the most discriminated-against group she’d seen in her lifetime. Following her election as the leader

The ruling United Conservative Party in the Canadian province of Alberta has selected a new leader known for her sovereigntist stance toward the Canadian federal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Saskatchewan joined Alberta on Saturday in rejecting enforcement of Justin Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban.

Alberta  Justice Minister Tyler Shandro has made clear he will not enforce Justin Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban and is seeking to join legal challenges to have the ban declared unconstitutional.

Alberta said the province will not participate in any attempts to seize “assault rifles” the federal government recently prohibited.

A Canadian judge ruled a woman did not have her rights violated when she was denied an organ transplant for not being vaccinated. 

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Canadian poultry farmers are facing fear and stress as a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 avian influenza is currently circulating in both wild and domestic flocks across North America.

Two Canadian provincial leaders and 16 American state governors signed a letter on Wednesday calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Joe Biden to end Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers.

Freedom Convoy protesters voluntarily dismantled their blockade of the Coutts border crossing in Alberta province Tuesday, the day after Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized a cache of weapons in a morning raid, and Premier Jason Kenney asked protesters to go home before the blockade escalated into violence.

Several Canadian provincial executives resisted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of emergency powers on Monday to shut down the Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates. 

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Wednesday apologized for comparing the stigmatization of people who will not get vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus to the treatment of HIV and AIDS patients in the early years of those diseases.

Truckers have resumed a border blockade in southern Alberta, demanding the return of more freedoms after the vax pass was scrapped.

Ottawa City Manager Steve Kanellakos said on Tuesday that every tow truck company that has a municipal contract has refused to haul away the Freedom Convoy trucks that have blocked city streets in the Canadian capital for the past two weeks.

Canada’s Freedom Convoy trucker protest against vaccine mandates continued on Tuesday as mandates, vaccine passport systems, and other coronavirus restrictions began falling in provinces across the country – including Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.

The Canadian province of Alberta will be ending its mandated vaccine passport system at midnight, along with other coronavirus restrictions. 

Canadians have suffered with a political “uni-party” with no true opposition for too long, Freedom Convoy leader and spokesman B.J. Dichter told Breitbart News.

Much of the American and Canadian media establishment is laboring to portray the Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates in Canada as a small but loud group of fringe extremists. Photos from cities across Canada this weekend demonstrated the true size and diversity of the movement, which is clearly more than just a handful of truckers honking their horns in Ottawa.

Alberta’s ruling Conservatives denied members had negotiated with anti-mandate truckers, but noted that vax passports could end within days. 

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed to Breitbart News that no officers have been assaulted by protesters at the Alberta border blockade despite the assertion from the province’s Premie,r Jason Kenney, that they had.

Canadian police on Tuesday ordered protesters to dismantle their blockade of a vital U.S. border crossing, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered the demonstrators camped in Ottawa to disperse and return home after five days of occupying the national capital.

Regional governments throughout Canada have begun announcing plans to drop onerous civil rights restrictions on their citizens meant to contain the Chinese coronavirus this week following mounting pressure from national protests, most prominently the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.

The Health Minister of Alberta, Canada, announced Wednesday that, because of the coronavirus, people who are not vaccinated can’t gather in any indoor venue starting Thursday.

Ten churches in Alberta were vandalised in a single day as Canada continues to see churches, primarily Roman Catholic, burned to the ground in several provinces over the past month.

A Canadian radio personality called for the burning of churches, as news outlets have reported more Catholic and Anglican churches being burned in parts of the country, primarily on First Nations reserves.

Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi has claimed that anti-mask and anti-lockdown protests in Canada during the pandemic are “thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist” activities and condemned demonstrators.

An event in Alberta, Canada on Saturday and Sunday billed as the “No More Lockdowns Rodeo Rally” drew thousands of attendees – plus stern criticism from provincial officials, who declared the rodeo “a clear breach of current public health restrictions” and said participants “knowingly put their fellow Albertans at risk.”

A church in Alberta, Canada, has been shut down and fenced off by the Alberta government for running afoul of the coronavirus rules.

Joe Biden’s announcement that he will shut down the Keystone XL pipeline is creating tensions between U.S. and Canadian officials.

A local mayor from the Canadian state of Alberta has pleaded with the state’s Premier Jason Kenney to deploy jets to bomb a 15-mile ice jam that has led to left much of his town being left underwater.