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11/20/2009
Given a positive resolution to the national vaccine shortage, and good uptake of vaccine among the highest-risk groups previously announced, Alberta’s H1N1 immunization program will expand to include all members of the public starting Monday, November 23rd.
As of November 20th, Alberta has approximately 500,000 doses of vaccine on hand, and will be receiving regular shipments through December to immunize up to 50,000 people per day. All Albertans who want to be immunized will have that opportunity over the next couple of months. Over 650,000 Albertans have been immunized so far.
Over the last week, Alberta Health Services has observed reduced community spread of the virus, seen reduced pressure on its emergency departments and intensive care units, and had markedly reduced demand at its Influenza Assessment Centres. With this decline of the second wave of H1N1, officials are encouraging Albertans to be immunized before the end of the year.
Lineups at immunization clinics have been short over the last couple of weeks. In anticipation of increased demand next week, Alberta Health Services has put strategies in place to manage lines if required, including wristbands handed to those in line indicating the time they can return for immediate service. There will ...
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11/20/2009
Calgary police are once again targeting those who drink and drive this holiday season and again they will be getting some help with enforcement.
Police will get help from provincial sheriffs in an enhanced checkstop program from noon to 8pm each day.
As well, there will be regular police check stops.
The number of people caught drinking and driving continues to go up.
Police say it may have to do with more enforcement and the fact that more drivers are on the streets, but they are not happy with the increase.
Last year, over 2800 people were charged.
This year's pace will likely surpass that number.
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11/20/2009
The Conference Board of Canada reports resale housings prices in Calgary continued to grow in the past year.
The latest figures from the board points to a five per cent jump in prices in the Calgary market place.
The average price now sits at $402 thousand.
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11/20/2009
Alberta's Privacy Commissioner doesn't like Bill 62.
That's the amendment to the Alberta Emergency Health Services Act introduced by the Stelmach government this week.
The bill spells out what information paramedics can and cannot share with police.
Privacy Commissioner Frank Work says there is no evidence to clearly show why the bill is necessary.
He says the bill goes too far and strips away oversight of decisions made to disclose information to police
And he says the new legislation could leave EMS staff wondering whether their priorities should be treating victims or gathering evidence for police.
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11/20/2009
The Calgary Parking Authority board is defending general manager Dale Fraser following criticism from aldermen and the media in recent days.
Fraser has been under fire for budget items calling for increased parking fines and extended parking hours including paid sunday parking downtown.
The board says it directed Fraser to look for ways to come up with more money and approved his recommendations.
But the board says no parking increases can be implemented without councils say-so.
In the statement, the CPA board says 65 per cent of parking fees and 100 of penalties go into the city's general revenues.
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11/20/2009
A fourth Alberta criminal has been sent packing by Canada Border Services.
45-year-old Parvind Chand is the fourth criminal ordered deported from Alberta in the past week.
He was released from bowden last week after serving about nine years for two sex assaults.
He kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old Edmonton girl while he was on bail facing charges for raping a 16-year-old girl in Brooks.
Chand came to Canada in 1990 and was ordered deported in 2002 after his convictions.
He was put on a plane Wednesday and is permanently barred from returning to Canada.
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11/20/2009
The provincial Energy minister says amendments to Bill 50 introduced Thursday will deal with costs, public interest, locations and timelines.
But Mel Knight says the amendments to the power transmission bill will not reopen the argument over whether power transmission is needed.
Knight says one of the big issues was the long term cost of the power transmission lines.
Knight says the amendments will deal with only four transmission projects with a total cost under $4.5 billion.
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11/20/2009
A police pursuit in Central Alberta has left two people dead.
It happened on Highway 16 just East of the Jasper park gates just after 5:00 Thursday evening.
A minivan being pursued by police slammed head on into a pickup truck near Hinton.
Both vehicles burst into flames and both drivers were killed.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is now investigating.
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11/20/2009
Police have released the name of the man who was killed in a southwest crash over the weekend.
48 year old Charles gordon Crichton died of injuries sustained when the Pontiac Sunfire he was driving hit a light standard in the intersection of Bow Trail and Sarcee Trail early Sunday morning.
The entire intersection was closed to all traffic for several hours as police completed their investigation.
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11/20/2009
The bus company employing a woman charged in connection with a crash that sent over 30 kids to hospital is defending its driver.
Despite speculation the schoolbus' brakes failed, police blame the driver and charged 38 year old Krista Donovan with careless driving and driving to left of the centre line.
But First Student Canada spokesman Steve Phillips told Global TV News regardless of what police say, they believe a fuel line failure affected the brakes.... and the driver was trying to take evasive action.
Still, they've suspended the driver until their full investigation is finished.
Police say the bus driver failed to do daily 51 point inspection that's required by law.
First Student Canada says the driver had over 3 years experience and a clean driving record.
Police add the driver of the minivan involved had no fault in the crash... but was driving alone with only a learner's permit.
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