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Residents enter a polling station to cast their votes in a plebiscite on whether to support a new coal mine in Crowsnest Pass, Alta., Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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‘Let’s do this’: Crowsnest Pass mayor wants proposed Alberta coal mine sooner than later

Crowsnest Pass Mayor Blair Painter seeks a meeting with Premier Danielle Smith to discuss a coal project supported by residents.

Residents enter a polling station to cast their votes in a plebiscite on whether to support a new coal mine in Crowsnest Pass, Alta., Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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‘We need an industry’: Crowsnest Pass residents voting on new Alberta coal mine

Crowsnest Pass residents vote on reopening the Grassy Mountain coal mine, reviving a decades-old debate of economy vs. environment.

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‘It just needs to stop’: Carbon price protesters slow traffic on Trans-Canada Highway

At an event organized by a group called Nationwide Protest Against the Carbon Tax, hundreds of protesters blocked the major highway west of...

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Alberta NDP leadership candidate says federal carbon levy is ‘dead’

CALGARY — Alberta’s former deputy premier entered the province’s NDP leadership Sunday with criticism of the federal carbon levy and Prime Minister Justin...