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“It’s something that we as Alberta and other provinces are going to want to make sure that they get the best deal possible for their farmers."

Kenney said Alberta is looking at many options, including the New Brunswick model or perhaps Quebec’s cap-and-trade system.

More cases in addition to two announced March 24

Variant cases made up nearly half of the 717 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Alberta on Friday.

While he insisted the government remains focused on steering the country through the pandemic, LeBlanc noted an election could be triggered at any time in a minority Parliament.

“We’ll continue to fight to defend our exclusive provincial power to regulate our resource industries.”

"I truly want to move forward together for the sake of patients and all Albertans," he wrote in a letter to Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Paul Boucher.

In a speech Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, Champagne said he hopes a COVID-19 vaccine can be produced at home in the "medium term" as a federal investment strategy begins to bear fruit.

"The number one riskiest activity is living in a household with someone who's infectious," Hinshaw said. "There is no other activity that even comes close to that proportion of our new cases.”

St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper describes changes to the new medical assistance in dying (MAID) law that include allowing mental illness to be a sole underlying cause as the height of recklessness.