A central Alberta city is closing a homeless encampment with help from Mounties because of safety risks it says will persist if it remains open.

“The team is ripe to win now and I thought I’d be a great fit,” Kane said of joining the Oilers.

Thursday’s report of 1,469 COVID-19 patients in hospital was revised to a pandemic-high 1,532 on Friday. The 11 highest patient counts have all come in the last 11 days.

An Amber Alert was issued after a two-year-old boy was abducted by his mother from the Inglewood area Thursday afternoon.

More than a third of Alberta teachers would prefer to retire, move, or start a new career rather than work in the province’s schools by 2026, according to a new survey that the government is disputing.