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The Alberta government is investing millions of dollars to reduce waste from hitting landfills.

Currently, Alberta is the third-largest producer of manufactured goods and materials in the country, as well as leading the way in Canada for clean technology innovation.

But as manufacturing companies around the world are seeking out ways to make products such as concrete, plastics, food, wood, chemicals, and machinery more efficient, durable, easier to recycle, and better for the environment, the provincial government has decided to follow suit.

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

The agency said in a statement Wednesday that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to viruses found in B.C. flocks in an ongoing outbreak at poultry farms.

Those in the Municipal District of Willow Creek had only a slight reprieve from fire restrictions.

The M.D. of Willow Creek lifted their fire restriction on October 21, but they re-implemented the fire restriction recently.

As of Wednesday, Nov. 13, the district is now under a fire restriction.

While the temperatures have dropped, there has been a lack of precipitation combined with windy conditions, and the risk of fire has heightened once again.

There is also a good amount of dry fuel present, which could help a wildfire to spread quickly.

High River emergency services responded to a two-vehicle collision on 12th Ave in High River this afternoon (Nov.13).

The collision happened near High River Toyota.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is currently hosting its annual 2024 district meetings across Manitoba. They began in Arborg on Tuesday, November 12, and will wrap up in Swan River on Thursday, December 19.  

Jill Verwey, President of KAP says organizing and hosting the meetings is a requirement and part of their grassroots policy. 

The Okotoks Oilers have announced that they have struck a deal with defenceman Nathan Tobey from the USHL.

Tobey comes with a plethora of experience and has played with top-end talent with some players already in the NHL while he was with the USA National Team Development Program (USNTDP).

The "Split the Pot" hospital lottery is nearing a close, and the pot has grown pretty hefty.

A total of 13 winners will split 50 per cent of the jackpot, which has reached nearly $550,000 as the deadline approaches.

The other half will be distributed among 30 healthcare foundations in Alberta, including the High River Health Foundation.

The pot will be split as follows:

The Highwood Mustangs Senior Girl's volleyball took the Foothills Composite Eagles to five sets but came out on the losing end in a 3-2 game.

The first set was a back-and-forth tilt with a few lead changes, but the Falcons ultimately came out victors with a 25-22 set score.

Early on in the set, the game would be tied at nine a piece. The Mustangs would then take a 16-10 lead, but the Falcons made it even a little later on with a 19-19 score. The score would then be deadlocked again at 22-22, the Falcons however took the final three points in the set for a 1-0 lead.