(AlbertaIndex, July 5, Thursday) --- The Alberta government said it is teaming up with IBM and the University of Alberta to help organizations use information technology to improve service delivery and gain a competitive advantage in the business world.

            (AlbertaIndex, July 4, Wednesday) --- The Athabasca Expedition team has returned from the first phase of their two-month trip with a message for Canadians regarding the threat global warming poses to the source of the Athabasca River - the Columbia Icefield. 

            (AlbertaIndex, July 2, Monday) --- Calgary Economic Development (CED) has launched the city’s film friendly program to help inform residents and businesses about film-making taking place in their communities.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 29, Friday) --- The Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC) has released the first of its annual progress reports on recommendations made to the Alberta government to help ensure the safe and responsible development of coalbed methane in the province.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 28, Thursday) --- Canada’s economy will grow by a “solid” 2.6% this year and 2.9% in 2008, said RBC. This year’s performance owes much to the “robust” start in the early months of 2007.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 28, Thursday) --- Homelessness has grown into a $4.5 billion a year problem for Canadian taxpayers, said The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. In 2005, up to 300,000 Canadians or nearly one percent of the country’s population were homeless while children accounted for nearly one in seven users of emergency shelters. 

            (AlbertaIndex, June 27, Wednesday) --- The Alberta government is inviting contractors to bid on the construction of a new overpass as part of a bypass to free up traffic congestion in Grand Prairie city.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 27, Wednesday) --- The Federal government is investing more than $416,000 in three southern Alberta projects to help the emerging biofuels industry, said Chuck Strahl, the Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 26, Tuesday) --- The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is predicting rapid increases in demand for Alberta’s oil sands in the US and Canada by 2015.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 25, Monday) --- Legal Aid Alberta (LAA) said it has promoted senior counsel Jacquie Schaffter to President and CEO effective August 1, 2007.