The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic.

An avalanche that struck southwest of Invermere, B.C., on Wednesday killed three skiers and injured four others, authorities have confirmed.

The sending of several emergency alert notifications to Albertans’ phones, televisions and radios Wednesday afternoon was a testing “glitch,” the province’s public safety minister says.

A chief superintendent with the Mounties made a passionate plea Wednesday to a middle-aged man – missing since he was just three years old – to pick up the phone and call police.

Analysts say Canada’s oil and gas industry will hit $40 billion in total investment in 2023, an increase of 11 per cent from last year.