Okotoks

Okotokians are being warned of a bear sighting in town.

A bear was spotted in Waller Park (100 and 102 Riverside Drive West) on Sunday, Aug. 17.

Due to the bear being in Town, bear warning signs have been posted in the area, letting people know they need to stay alert and aware of their surroundings in the area.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consider reversing a recent policy change that ended the public disclosure of expense receipts over $100 for ministers and other government officials.

Smith, asked about the change Thursday at her Alberta Next panel town hall in Edmonton, told the crowd that it caught her off guard but was made for safety reasons.

On Aug. 16, at 6:30 p.m., the Cochrane RCMP received a report of a capsized canoe on Barrier Lake in Kananaskis.  

One of the three occupants in the canoe, a 56-year-old female, was found and taken to the hospital with hypothermia.  

A 60-year-old male was found deceased, and a 30-year-old male is missing.   

All three are Calgary residents.  

It could be another chaotic day for travellers as a labour dispute continues between Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants. 

Flight attendants with the Montreal-based airline represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees are expected to remain on the picket lines today as a battle against a federal return-to-work order continues. 

The Calgary Police are looking for information on a fatal collision that happened Friday (Aug. 15).

At roughly 9:42 p.m., a fatal collision occurred at roughly 500 metres north of Stoney Trail S.E. on Macleod Trail S.E.

It is believed that a 2004 Honda Civic was driving northbound on Macleod Trail S.E and struck a man in his 50's who was walking eastbound across Macleod Trail S.E.

The driver, who was uninjured, remained on the scene.

The pedestrian was declared deceased at the scene.

High River's Jason Glass won the Battle of the Rockies on Sunday in Rocky Mountain House.

Glass even set a new track record on the final day of chuckwagon races for the season with a time of 1:12.25.

However, it was Calgary's Chanse Vigen who took the World Chuckwagon Championship for the third consecutive year, which ties a WPCA record.

Health experts, advocates and unions are sounding the alarm over Alberta’s plan for paid COVID-19 shots, calling it concerning and confusing.

On Monday, two months after the province announced it was adding a fee, it opened online pre-ordering for the vaccine. Albertans still need to book appointments for the shots, starting in October.

Air Canada cancelled hundreds of additional flights on Sunday after the union representing its flight attendants announced the workers would remain on strike in defiance of a back-to-work order.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees said it filed a challenge in Federal Court on Sunday to an order by the Canada Industrial Relations Board that said its members must return to work by 2 p.m. ET.

"Our members are not going back to work," CUPE national president Mark Hancock said outside Toronto's Pearson Airport. "We are saying no."

Ukraine and its allies held a virtual meeting Sunday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for a high-stakes discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said in a Sunday afternoon statement that he took part in the call with the "Coalition of the Willing," a group of nations that have agreed to support Ukraine as it defends itself against Russian's full-scale invasion. The statement did not indicate that Carney would be part of Monday's discussions.