Alberta News

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) _ NXT Energy Solutions Inc. (NSFDF) on Monday reported a loss of $1.1 million in its third quarter. The Calgary, Alberta-based company said it had a loss of 2 cents per share. The company's shares closed at 35 cents.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says the province is at a dangerous plateau, with almost 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last three days, 20 new deaths and overwhelmed contact chasers.

EDMONTON — Shalaina Arcand’s siblings were asleep in another room when the five-year-old was hit in the head so hard that she died in hospital four days later, a trial judge heard Monday.

CALGARY — Advisory firm Glass Lewis says the proposed hostile takeover of Bonterra Energy Corp. would be good for Obsidian Energy Ltd. shareholders but it has "almost no practical likelihood of being successful.

CALGARY — Alberta's top court has upheld the conviction of a Calgary man found guilty of manslaughter in his grandson's death. A judge sentenced Allan Perdomo Lopez last year to nine years in prison.

ACHESON, Alta. — The RCMP say they are investigating after a young boy died following a house fire Sunday evening in Acheson, Alta, just west of Edmonton.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) _ Transglobe Energy Corp. (TGA) on Monday reported a third-quarter loss of $6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Calgary, Alberta-based company said it had a loss of 8 cents per share.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada has announced five new directors to its board of directors, including three women, to serve two-year terms.

EDMONTON — Lawyers representing the City of Edmonton say the city decided not to light a bridge in colours requested by an anti-abortion group because it risked polarizing the community, a judge heard Friday.

CALGARY — Westcoast Energy has been fined for failing to prevent a fiery pipeline blast northeast of Prince George, B.C., two years ago that led to natural gas shortages in the province through the winter.