🏛️ Government & Politics
- Alberta NDP flipped a Calgary UCP riding in a recent byelection. Post-vote analysis cites Alberta separatism and the NDP’s vision as key reasons for the upset, with local campaign messaging contrasting the parties on provincial unity and policy positions.
- A University of Calgary School of Public Policy report says separation could cost up to $170 billion. The government-commissioned study estimates short-term separation costs between $50 billion and $170 billion over the first five years and warns a “difficult” split could cut GDP by about 10.1% within five years.
- Gas jumped up to $0.30 at pumps; Calgary prices reached $1.84 per litre. Analysts link the spike to a power failure at ExxonMobil’s Joliet, Illinois, refinery, which lost power on Sunday and remained offline into Tuesday, while diesel prices rose about $0.24–$0.25 per litre in impact estimates.
- Edmonton police report at least 20 distraction-style robberies since Aug. 19 targeting senior South Asian women. Investigators say suspects drive residential routes, engage elderly women in conversation, then forcibly remove jewellery in some incidents, and police are treating several files as robberies rather than simple thefts.
- Sherwood Park’s Meghan Rozema donated part of her liver in 2021 and later sought to donate a kidney. Rozema told Global News her 2021 liver donation went to a baby who likely needed it to reach a first birthday, and a planned kidney donation to a family friend was delayed two years before the friend died.
🏈 Sports
- Calgary Stampeders (5-8) urgently need wins as Ottawa visits with an 0-12 Redblacks team. Ottawa will start McLeod Bethel-Thompson for his first start this season against Calgary on Saturday; Calgary is four points behind the third-place West teams and has an October stretch that will decide playoff chances.
- Edmonton Oilers training camp opens amid controversy over Alex Formenton signing and Mike Babcock hire. Formenton signed a one-year, US$850,000 deal after acquittal of 2018 charges, and reports say a petition over the signing has more than 60,000 signatures ahead of a planned Rogers Place protest.
📰 Also Today
- Alberta to provide free RSV vaccines to newborns after pediatricians lobbied for expanded access.
- Erlton residents oppose a proposed 45-unit affordable housing project in southwest Calgary.
- Calgary landfill fire is under control but air quality remains a local concern.
- Alberta oil and gas company ordered to abandon assets after repeated regulatory non-compliance.
- Former MLA says Alberta is ready for a bloc-style federal party, per interview.
- Government-commissioned analysis finds independent Alberta would be costly and unpredictable.
- Alberta referendum could affect temporary residents’ access to public health care and education.
- Emergency visits for gambling-related problems are rising, study finds, mostly among men and boys.
- CBC published a disclosed letter from the Bishnoi gang to police, per reporting.
- Provincial program killings of grizzly bears have spiked despite government saying recovery is a priority.
- Judge says “incarceration is required” when sentencing man who killed a father of four after blowing a stop sign.
- Alberta RCMP warn 2026 is on pace to be the deadliest year on provincial roads.
- Alberta NDP flew an anti-separatist flag during a Calgary byelection campaign, per coverage.
- (Duplicate listing) Former MLA says Alberta ready for bloc-style federal party, per interview.
- Preston Manning called polls showing Danielle Smith as a separatist “baffling” at his forum announcement.
- (Duplicate listing) Erlton residents oppose proposed 45-unit affordable housing project in southwest Calgary.
- (Duplicate listing) Report says separation could cost up to $170 billion, University of Calgary study.
- (Duplicate listing) Alberta drivers face a pump-price jump after an Illinois refinery outage; Calgary at $1.84/L.
- (Duplicate listing) Edmonton Oilers camp controversy over Formenton signing and Babcock hiring.
