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HBO's The Last of Us has been filmed all across the province from downtown Calgary and Fort Macleod to the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton.

Travel Alberta has created a map with pinpoints showing the locations featured throughout the show's first season.

For example, two prominent Edmonton locations include 108 street and Rice Howard Way in the downtown core. The familiar areas are meant to mimic locations in Boston, Texas, and even Indonesia. 

Alberta, Saskatchewan and the CFIA are working to remove barriers to interprovincial food trade in Lloydminster.

Food trade issues have been a long-time concern for the border city.

A new 2-year pilot program operated by the Lloydminster Chamber of Commerce will ease the challenges faced by food businesses in both provinces.

The goal is for safe food to move into and within the city as if there is no provincial border.

Work from local artists will be on full display in Sherwood Park next month. 

11 artists from the Sherwood Park and Edmonton areas will be featured in Gallery@501in their 'Around You / Near You: Shaped in the Studio' exhibition. 

"We're really excited to discover the work of these 11 artists," said Kris Miller, the gallery curator. "We have partnered with three community organizations, and we came together to collaborate on putting on a show to celebrate the talent these artists have." 

A Fort Saskatchewan ringette team battled through a tough injury to win gold over the weekend. 

The U16 Fort Saskatchewan ICE were in Hinton last weekend to take part in the Friends on Ice tournament. 

The team sailed through their first two games, winning both to advance into a pivotal gold-medal match against Hinton, the host team. 

Things started off fine, but disaster struck for the ICE about halfway in.  

Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn't a place to invest that money yet.

Many companies are coming off a year of windfall profits not because they pumped out more product, but because the war in Ukraine and global supply chain crunches pushed world oil prices way up.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has said repeatedly over the last year that the companies need to prove their commitment by putting some of that cold hard cash into climate initiatives.

Global economics and the impact for agriculture were a key focus during the Annual Ag Outlook yesterday.

Brad Magnusson, CEO of Magnusson Consulting Group covered a lot of ground from oil and gas prices to the war in Ukraine, and more. 

A key area of interest is the potential impact of an increase in U.S. acres.

He says the USDA is expecting to see an increase in soybeans, winter wheat and spring wheat, with corn acres jumping 1.9 million acres.

Social Development Minister Karina Gould says Service Canada has "virtually eliminated" the massive backlog of passport applications that were delayed this year because of a surge in demand.

Most new passport applications were being processed on time by October, but thousands of people who applied before then still faced excessive delays.

Gould says 98 per cent of those backlogged applications have now been processed.

How old are people living in Fort Saskatchewan? 

A quick look at data from the 2021 Canadian census can help give us some answers. 

The biggest groups based on age are 34 to 39-year-olds, who make up 2,465 people. Following closely behind them are 25 to 29-year-olds and 30 to 34-year-olds with 2,005 and 2,380 people respectively.

The smallest group based on age in Fort Saskatchewan is 100 years old and older, with only five women of that age in the whole city. Right behind them are 90 to 94-year-olds, and 95 to 99-year-olds, with 150 people in both categories.

Farmers should be checking their stored grain on a regular basis. 

It's key to avoiding problems with mold or insect issues which can impact future sales.

While most new bins have monitors and sensors to alert producers about what's going on in the bin, there are still a lot of older bins out there that may not have those sensors.

Brent Elliott an Entomologist with the Canadian Grain Commission says it's important to monitor grain storage on a regular basis.

The Fort Sask food bank just got a huge upgrade in storage capacity. 

Through a Food Banks Canada grant, the food bank received $27,890 to purchase two new refrigerators and one new freezer. 

"They were delivered just before Christmas," said Kassandra Gartner, the executive director of the food bank. "We had to have an electrician come in and put some extra plugs in, but we are really grateful to have it done and ready." 

The new units will double the food bank's existing refrigeration storage as well as increase their existing freezer space by a third.