🏛️ Government & Politics
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NAIT breaks ground on a $779-million Advanced Skills Centre that will add 5,500 student spaces. NAIT says the 625,000-square-foot centre on the north end of campus will house 29 trades programs and raise annual capacity to more than 15,000 students; the project is funded 75 per cent by a $384-million provincial contribution and aims for completion in fall 2030.
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Business Council of Alberta urges Albertans to "Choose Canada" ahead of the Oct. 19 separatism referendum. The council, made up of more than 130 chief executives, warned voters that separation would create “massive uncertainty” and called the promise of Alberta being “master of its own destiny” a “fiction,” urging fence‑sitters to consider economic risks.
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Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath faces a $108.9-million debt claim from U.S. funder Diriba Investments. Court documents allege RathPC defaulted on a financing agreement tied to litigation cases two years ago; the claim is nearly $109 million plus interest and costs, and legal experts say a secured creditor could force enforcement against Rath's assets.
Environment
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Landowners launch a court challenge over the Alberta Energy Regulator’s orphan well levy, citing $1.66 billion in cleanup costs. Applicants, represented by Ecojustice, say the Orphan Well Association’s inventory cleanup is pegged at $1.66 billion while the 2026‑27 levy was set at $154.56 million, up from $144.45 million the prior year, and seek judicial review in Court of King’s Bench.
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A small black bear was filmed roaming Cumberland and Canossa neighbourhoods overnight in northwest Edmonton. Residents captured video just after midnight of the bear moving between yards in Castle Downs; witnesses said it showed no aggression, and security-camera footage recorded the animal being chased by a coyote in one cul‑de‑sac.
🎨 Community & Culture
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Edmonton Elks erased an 18-point deficit to beat the Calgary Stampeders 38-28 on Labour Day. The Elks overcame the deficit and secured the win in Calgary on Labour Day, a result that stands in the CFL standings and was reported on the game day recap.
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Parents are pushing back on classroom screen time in a growing 'techlash' over school technology. Reports say parent groups are questioning the amount of classroom screen time and pressing school systems to limit devices in lessons as debate over in-class technology use grows.
📰 Also Today
- Calgary executive committee backs a surface Green Line LRT down 10 Avenue S.W., voting 12-1.
- Alberta landowners launch legal challenge over amount collected for orphan well cleanups.
- Experts say Edmonton bear sighting likely a pre-winter meal search.
- Business leader calls Alberta separation promise of 'master of its destiny' a fiction.
- Calgary councillor Landon Johnston apologizes for leaking budget documents, says he'd do it again.
- Food Allergy Canada calls for more schools to stock epinephrine devices.
- New Canadian tariffs prompt debate about small businesses as 'cannon fodder'.
- Federal government approves trial of birth-control vaccine for wild horses in Alberta.
- Alberta man retraces steps after waking from coma following traumatic brain injury.
- Ottawa's dollar-for-dollar tariffs on U.S. goods take effect.
- Trump tells Bombardier it must build in U.S. to sell there, per report.
- (Duplicate notice) Alberta landowners launch legal challenge over orphan well levy.
