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“We believe the requested action is beyond our jurisdiction,” said Banff Mayor Corrie DiManno.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a potential budget deficit next year is not off the table.

The funding needed to bring water infrastructure up to its most manageable and cost-effective state is $2.96 billion more than rural municipalities currently have access to.

More than 150 stakeholders and Indigenous community members recently provided input, and the online survey is open to the public until Nov. 7.

"Some people may be able to afford these increases. But they’re a serious burden for someone on a fixed income around $24 000 a year or running a business that suffered through COVID then the Jasper fires."

Legislative Assembly of Alberta resumes sitting on Oct. 28

Ways to keep trick-or-treaters safe Halloween night include keeping lights on, travel in groups and only handing out commercially wrapped candy and snacks.

“We’ve encouraged and we’ve incentivized, but the fact remains that like Jasper, like Fort McMurray, it’s not the big wall of flames that comes and wipes out your community, it is embers raining in and igniting structures."

"I can see the resilience in people’s faces when I was talking to them today – the responders, the first responders, all the people that helped get people together and fed."

A novel telerehabilitation program is remotely connecting rural seniors with medical specialists. Researchers behind the project say this virtual clinic-to-clinic model of care is the way forward for rural health, and participants say they are already seeing the benefits.