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Alberta's government says three children are in intensive care in hospital after contracting measles.

A health ministry spokesperson declined to disclose their ages, citing privacy concerns.

At a news conference Monday, Dr. Sunil Sookram, Alberta's interim chief medical officer of health, said there have been no deaths.

Sookram said the risk of getting the highly contagious disease in Alberta is at its greatest point in almost 30 years.

Jessica Sevick, an Olympian originally from Strathmore, returned to town to attend Hype for Hospice on Sunday, May 4.

Sevick competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she took home a silver medal for her work in rowing. 

"I actually started rowing because I tore my ACL playing recreational soccer, and I got recruited by my physiotherapist who said that I should try it because it's not impact, and I was tall and jacked," said Sevick.

She joined the Calgary Rowing Club in 2016 to "make new friends and get a hot bod".

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is reporting the presence of AI in three non-commercial poultry flocks in Saskatchewan last week, in the RM of Indian Head, the RM of Colonsay, and the RM of Lipton.

To date, one case has been found in a commercial poultry operation in Manitoba in the RM of Wallace.

Previous occurrences have been found in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Most poultry and egg production operations already have biosecurity measures in place, but producers who maintain small flocks, should look at enhancing their on-farm biosecurity measures.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to navigate a delicate balance during his first in-person meeting with Donald Trump today, following months of the U.S. president targeting Canada with tariffs and taunts.

Carney and Trump will meet at the White House and the prime minister has said he expects "difficult, but constructive" conversations.

Carney has said the meeting will mark the beginning of a larger economic and security agreement between Canada and the United States.

Newly elected Conservatives and returning MPs are set to meet in Ottawa this morning as the party charts its path forward after last week's election loss to the Liberals.

Leader Pierre Poilievre, who lost his bid to continue representing the riding of Carleton after 20 years as the area's MP, will not be in the House of Commons when it opens later this month.

In a video posted on social media Monday afternoon, Poilievre says he has a lot to be thankful for after the election, including an expanded coalition of Conservative voters.

 Alliance will remain a 'standalone' brand under Canterra ownership.

The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm.

Canterra Seeds announced May 1 it has acquired Alliance Seed for an undisclosed amount, and will continue to operate Alliance as “a standalone brand under Canterra Seeds’ umbrella, with key staff transitioning to maintain continuity and customer relationships.”

SASKATOON — Canada has far fewer green peas than the government is reporting, says an analyst.

“Purely from a price perspective, markets believe the Canadian harvest was smaller than estimated by Statistics Canada,” Stat Publishing noted in a recent article.

Using crop insurance data, a “strong argument” can be made that growers planted 358,000 acres of green peas last year, well below Statistics Canada’s 463,000-acre estimate.

Stat believes the area has been over-reported since 2021.

Root rots are the number one disease issue for pulse crops, significantly impacting pea and lentil fields across the Prairies.  Studies show that the disease which thrives in warm, wet conditions can cause a yield loss of anywhere from 60 to 84 percent.

Last year, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture conducted a pulse disease survey, which focused on the root rot disease complex.

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10 Strathmore held a special event on Sunday, May 4.

Several legion members were in attendance for the memorial, which commemorated the Battle of the Atlantic, the largest battle of World War II.

"It started literally on the first day of the war, with the first victims occurring at 10 p.m. that day off the north-west coast of Ireland," said legion president Donovan Arnaud.

Hype for Hospice kicked off at Kinsmen Park on Sunday, May 4.

The event featured a firetruck pull, a wine raffle, and a hike around Kinsmen Lake.

"It's to raise funds and awareness for a hospice that we're building here in Kinsmen Park," said Joni McNeely, chair of the Wheatland & Area Hospice Society. "This is our eighth year doing the hike, but a few years ago we changed it to include all three events."