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3/11/2010
The Alberta government has cut royalty rates for the oil and natural gas industry. Maximum royalty rates for conventional oil will drop to 40 per cent from the current 50 per cent. The top rate for natural gas will drop from 50 per cent to 36 per cent, close to where they were before the government raised them in January 2009. The government says the net result will be a $363-million reduction in revenue in 2012 and 2013. The new rates will take effect in 2011.
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3/11/2010
A brain-injured baby whose parents dropped a court battle to keep him on life support has died in their arms.
The parents of Isaiah May had been seeking to consult with medical experts to review whether their son should be unhooked from the medical equipment that was keeping him alive.
Their lawyer says Isaiah was surrounded by his family when he died around noon.
The court had been slated to hear details about an independent medical review of the boy's condition, but the proceeding did not go ahead.
The baby was born last October with severe brain damage after his umbilical cord got wrapped around his throat, which deprived him of oxygen.
Doctors at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital were planning to disconnect Isaiah from a ventilator on January 20th, but his parents persuaded a judge to give them time to get a second opinion.
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3/11/2010
A thirty one year old Calgary man is facing fraud charges in connection with a door-to-door scam.
Police say the man started approaching people in august of last year in northeast communities claiming he was locked out of his home and needed some money to pay a locksmith.
He promised to pay them back but never returned.
Peter John Brown is facing six counts of fraud under $5,000.
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3/11/2010
Calgary police, and investigators from Alberta Gaming anf Liquor, have busted illegal gambling operations in the city.
Three illegal gaming machines were discovered at Trung Nguyen Coffee & Billiard located on 17th Avenue S.E. this week.
As well, four similar machines were found at Midnight Billiards & Coffee Shop on 31st Street S.E.
Three people are facing charges.
Police also uncovered illegal drugs at the first location.
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3/11/2010
This is starting to get pretty serious.
The Calgary Co-op store in the southwest community of Oakridge has discovered more incidents of food tampering.
This morning, a few packaged deli cheese items and flatbread in the bakery area were found metal objects pushed into the packaging and clearly visible to the naked eye.T
here have been at least two similar incidents in the past - one in January and another in mid-February.
Police are working on the case and the Co-op has increased security as a result.
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3/11/2010
The Calgary mother who was charged with manslaughter after her daughter overdosed on methadone in 2006 has taken the stand in her own defence.
Lisa Guerin testified she haD no idea 16 month old Summer had injested the drug when she left her in the care of her father.
A day earlier, a friend of Guerin told the trial Lisa knew the girl got into the methadone, which the crown prosecutor contends was left in a coffee cup on top of the television.
Amanda MacDonald testified on Wednesday Summer had an orange stain on her shirt, and when Guerin saw it she yelled out, "Oh my god, she drank Jonathan's methadone!" referring to her ex-husband, co-accused Jonathan Hope.
Guerin has testified she believes her daughter had pizza sauce on her face, but there was no orange stain.
Choking back tears on the stand, Guerin said she thought Summer had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and didn't find out about the methadone until much later.
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3/11/2010
Calgary police have charged a suspect after a deadly hit and run accident in the northeast last year.
On November 25th, 32 year old Shaun Robert Elson was walking in a parking lot near 32nd Avenue and 30th Street when he was run over by a silver Kia Sedona.
The driver fled.
Police were able to find the suspect vehicle and interviewed one man but no charges were laid at the time.
Now, after an extensive investigation, that same person is accused of failing to remain at the scene of a fatal accident.
Charged is 24 year old Clinton Richard Bruce.
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3/11/2010
RBC is out with a pretty rosy economic forecast for Alberta.
The bank predicts real GDP growth of 2.5 per cent this year, slightly behind the 3.1 per cent national figure.
Chief economist Craig Wright says Alberta is lagging behind other provinces because of the continued slump in the natural gas industry.
He expects economic activity to gain momentum throughout this year with growth poised to surge 4.4 per cent in 2011.
The report notes capital spending intentions in the energy sector are up by about 8 per cent this year, following a drop of 41 per cent in 2009.
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3/10/2010
The Alberta Liberals are hoping the Stelmach government will not make the situation worse when it announces changes to energy royalties Thursday.
Energy Critic Dave Taylor says the government needs to right a wrong.
Investment has plummeted in Alberta since the province restructured royalties two years ago to boost government revenues.
Energy Minister Ron Liepert will make the announcement in Calgary after the stock markets close.
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3/11/2010
Disturbing details of the rape and beating of a Calgary woman from the accused as he took the stand in his defence Wednesday.
The defence began it's case with Christopher Watcheston testifying.
He's charged with 1st degree murder in the death of 41 year old Arcelie Laogan two years ago.
The 24 year old testified he drank up to two dozen beer leading up to the attack and was feeling the effects of the drug Salvia that he thought the victim was his dead mother.
Watcheston went through the shocking details of the attack, saying the woman pleaded with him not to rape her.
He says he doesn't know why but he did and then kicked her in the head up to four times, hoping she wouldn't remember what happened.
Watcheston says he never meant to kill the woman, saying he had told her to run away but instead she made a call on her cell phone.
The Crown will have a chance to cross-examine Watcheston Thursday.
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