Alberta’s government says it will begin rolling out three-in-one identification cards, ultimately replacing the province’s long-reviled paper health cards. Starting July 2, new driver’s licences and ID cards are to include personal health numbers and citizenship markers, a move Premier Danielle Smith’s government says will streamline access to services. In a video posted to social […]

A successful court challenge from First Nations and an ongoing privacy investigation have placed Alberta’s separation petition under renewed scrutiny. Piikani Nation Chief Troy Knowlton called the May 13 Alberta Court of King’s Bench decision to quash Elections Alberta’s approval of the separatist petition a “historic victory” for Piikani Nation, the Blackfoot Confederacy and Treaty peoples. The […]

Alberta lawmakers are rising for the summer after a spring sitting overshadowed by the province’s vocal separatist movement and the political tensions that came with it. The sitting saw legislation that will affect everything from books on public library shelves to who can access medical assistance in dying. But all spring, the issue of secession […]

Elections Alberta says the separatist group at the centre of a massive voter information breach may not have shared the full list of individuals who accessed its public database. The agency says it’s possible that thousands of people viewed the private information. The group, called the Centurion Project, created an app containing the names and […]

The man at the centre of a massive public data leak isn’t co-operating with an investigation by Elections Alberta, says the agency. Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure said Tuesday that David Parker, leader of the Centurion Project, has so far refused to comply with a cease-and-desist letter sent last week.  The letter required Parker to […]

Alberta’s chief electoral officer says he’s swamped with so much extra work —  petitions, referendums, preparing for an election — that he deserves a raise.  But members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus who decide such pay bumps say no. On Monday, UCP members used their majority on a legislature committee to reject […]

Premier Danielle Smith says the buck stops with her caucus when it comes to questions over why Smith didn’t know sooner about a massive breach of private information on Albertans. Smith’s United Conservative caucus has previously said one of their staffers was at an April 16 meeting in which private information on Albertans was shown […]

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says reports that Alberta separatists are targeting and spreading his personal information has prompted him to alter his security but won’t stop him from speaking out. “I’m not someone to live in fear,” Kenney said Thursday in a phone interview from Ottawa. “In fact, it only encourages me to double […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office says she has been granted security clearance to receive briefings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her office provided few other details but says in a statement that the clearance allows her to be briefed on national security matters. “The premier has now obtained her top-secret clearance in order to […]

Alberta’s elections agency said Thursday it believes 568 people accessed a voter list at the heart of a massive privacy breach involving a separatist group. The group, called the Centurion Project, had made a publicly accessible database featuring the names and addresses of nearly three million Alberta voters. The website was shut down last week […]

Wheatland County is moving away from Wheatland & Adjacent Districts EMS Association (WADEMSA) and has selected Calgary 911 as its future provider for fire dispatch services. A statement was released by the county, April 29, discussing the decision, citing it was based on cost, regional efficiency, operational performance, and the use of modern NextGen 911 […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is criticizing the Opposition NDP for not telling her about a massive privacy breach involving a website after the site was demonstrated during a meeting attended by one of her caucus staffers. In a fiery chamber debate Wednesday, Smith insisted the United Conservative Party caucus staffer didn’t realize a database shown […]