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The Okotoks Museum is hosting a weekly walk to teach about Okotoks' history.

For the third consecutive summer, the Okotoks Museum is hosting its Wednesday Walkabouts, which offer a unique way to share the history of Okotoks.

Canada Day is quickly approaching, and there is a variety of celebrations happening in the Foothills for families to enjoy.  

Here’s a look at what is happening.  

Okotoks  

The Canada Day festivities begin in the Town of Okotoks at 11 a.m. and run until 4 p.m.  

While people are celebrating Canada Day, there will be some facility closures in Okotoks on July 1.

Canada Day is happening on a Tuesday this year, and many places in town will be closed to the public.

The Municipal Centre and Operations Centre, Fire Station No. 1 on Milligan Drive, the RCMP/Municipal Enforcement office, Okotoks Eco Centre, the Art Gallery and Museum & Archives, the Okotoks Public Library, Viking Rental Centre, and the Okotoks Family Resource Centre will all be closed on Tuesday, July 1.

Three years after Alberta's government paid $70 million for children's pain and fever medicine, its front-line health provider says it has worked out a deal to off-load what remains of the controversial stockpile.

Alberta Health Services spokeswoman Kristi Bland, in a Friday statement, confirmed the medicine is being donated to the charity group Health Partners International of Canada to distribute to "vulnerable communities worldwide."

"Preliminary shipments of products have started to leave Alberta, and additional shipments will happen in the coming months," she wrote.

Canada is rescinding its digital services tax and will resume trade negotiations with the United States, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement issued late Sunday night.

The announcement came following a phone call between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, and just hours before the first payment under the tax was going to come due for major tech companies like Amazon and Google. 

On Friday Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social he was terminating all trade discussions with Canada because of the tax.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the federal government plans to take a "fresh" look at its online harms legislation over the summer but it's not clear yet exactly what the bill will look like when it is reintroduced.

It would be the Liberals' third attempt to pass legislation to address harmful behaviour online.

Fraser told The Canadian Press in an interview that the government hasn't decided whether to rewrite or simply reintroduce the Online Harms Act, which was introduced in 2024 but did not pass.

An Alberta judge has put on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

Justice Allison Kuntz, in a written judgment Friday, said the law raises serious Charter issues that need to be hashed out in court, and issued a temporary injunction against it before it fully came into effect.

Kuntz wrote that a temporary stop is needed while the issue is debated.

Berry lovers will be happy to hear that the U-pick season has now started. 

Across the Prairies, strawberry U-pick seasons typically start in early July. Raspberries and Saskatoons are then often available from late July through August. 

Andy Loewen is the owner of Friedensfeld Honey and Berry Farm, located east of Friedensfeld in Manitoba. He says their strawberry U-pick season officially got underway on Friday. An opening day of June 27th is a little bit earlier than normal for their farm.

Tyra the Tyrannosaurus is set to be poked and prodded this fall to determine whether Drumheller’s towering, monstrously popular icon can be saved from extinction.

Mayor Heather Colberg says a technical check will determine how much work — and money — may be needed to keep the 25-metre figure in its current place dominating the skyline of the town northeast of Calgary.

The 2nd annual Medieval Faire and Tournament was another very successful event for the organizers.

Brothers Ryan and Warren Neilson were thrilled by how well the tournament unfolded.

Ryan was impressed with the steady stream of spectators and how smoothly it ran.

"It's going really well this year. We're quite impressed with the outcome. We definitely went for making it a larger faire, fingers were crossed that it was still going to work like it did last year, and we're impressed with how it's going."