Cooler, but not COLD in the Edmonton region this week.

It may be thousands of kilometres away, but the tastes and smells of the Caribbean and Africa are alive and well in Canada’s North thanks to Black business owners making their home in the Northwest Territories.

Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday – the last before a spring provincial election – with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.

Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic. But it is exactly what happened to the local politician in the U.K., who found himself deluged with abusive messages on social media and by email over his involvement in a proposed traffic filtering trial run in the city of Oxford.

A video posted to social media shows an Edmonton Police Service officer using force to take down an 18-year-old man, an interaction that Alberta’s law enforcement watchdog is now reviewing.