As Calgary's population booms, its labour force continues toreach new heights, according to new data released Friday, while the unemployment rate grows.

First Nationspeople in Alberta have been dying from opioids at more than eight times the rate of the rest of the population, according to newly published data that puts harder numbers on a grim reality Indigenous leaders have been sounding the alarm over for years.

Calgary's metro-area population grew by nearly 96,000 people last year a staggering six per cent increase in the span of just 12 months according to new estimates released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.

Conservative LeaderPierre Poilievre needs to clarify where he stands on industrial carbon pricing, says the new head of major oilsandsgroup that aims to bring the industry's emissions to net-zero largely through the construction of a massive carbon-capture project that relies on carbon credits.