Edmonton police lay charges after ‘racist incident’ targeting Asian women

Edmonton Transit Service security helped police find the man after he exited the train at Corona Station, where officers arrested him without incident. The Wednesday incident comes after a spate of verbal and physical attacks on Edmonton Muslim women, many of them Black, several of whom were using the transit system. We have enabled email […]

Edmonton weather: Puddles, puddles, everywhere | Edmonton Journal

There was something so simple and satisfying about the sound it would make and the ooze of the murky water underneath. More news, fewer ads, faster load time: Get unlimited, ad-lite access to the Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites for just $14/month or $140/year. We have enabled email notifications—you […]

Topic of interest: U of A students win Bank of Canada competition | Edmonton Journal

Five fourth-year macroeconomic policy students, Selam Abraham, Vivek Gala, James Davison, Kayla Stephanson and Aishwarya Tyagi, travelled to Ottawa and assumed the role of advisers to the bank’s governing council. As the team got to work, Abraham was put in charge of tracking domestic economic trends. The competition’s final round saw the U of A […]

Alberta Premier Smith expresses concern about ‘mission creep’ of professional regulators

Smith said those bodies should focus on things like malpractice complaints. She suggested complaints appear to be coming from professionals who don’t share the same philosophy or politics as their peers. Lawyers in the province were given 18 months, ending last October, to finish an online course called The Path, designed to help them “increase their […]