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Six people are killed when a small plane crashes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2023-07-28

Over 25,000 residents in Alberta, Canada, are ordered to evacuate because of wildfires.
2023-05-6

Thousands of Indigenous people gather in Maskwacis, Alberta, to hear an apology from Pope Francis for the past abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada.
2022-07-25

A herd of Plains bison are successfully reintroduced to the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, more than 100 years after they were nearly hunted out of existence.
2017-02-6

Alberta authorities update information about the fire. About 2,400 homes and buildings were destroyed, but firefighters saved 25,000 others in the city, including the hospital, municipal buildings, and every functioning school. They expect most of the 88,000 evacuees will return to their homes within two weeks. The fire, which has merged with another blaze, is about 884 square miles (2,090 square kilometers) in size. The majority of Canada's oil sands industry, and a third of the country's total oil output, is offline, though Shell Canada has restarted its Albian Sands mining operations.
2016-05-10

Since the fire has intermittently blocked the only route south toward Alberta's major cities, evacuees have had to go north toward oil camps and a few small settlements. The province has airlifted 4,000 people to Edmonton and Calgary as of late Thursday. Roughly 20 percent of Canada's crude oil production, around 680,000 barrels per day, is offline and is expected to increase. There are no known casualties from the fire, which today has grown to 210,000 acres (85,000 hectares), but fatalities are reported in at least one vehicle crash along the evacuation route.
2016-05-5

75,000 people are evacuated from their homes during flooding in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2013-06-21

A wildfire destroys one third of the Canadian town of Slave Lake, Alberta.
2011-05-16

More than a thousand people are evacuated from the Canadian town of Slave Lake, Alberta, due to a wildfire.
2011-05-15

Naheed Nenshi is voted mayor of Calgary, Alberta, the first Muslim person to be elected mayor of a major city in Canada.
2010-10-19