Jessica Ng

Fact check: Danielle Smith’s comments on temporary residents Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a plan to limit health and education support for temporary residents. We fact-checked some of Smith’s claims about temporary foreign workers and Alberta tax...

Premier Danielle Smith claimed Ontario doesn't offer health coverage to temporary foreign workers' families. But that province does, under several conditions. Watch this fact check. #AbLeg

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

In the middle of the tarmac at Pearson

Weirdest flight situation, with the plane from #yeg over an hour and a half delayed to terminal 3 at Pearson Airport bc of a lost landing tire (I think that’s what it's called).

We're now on a bus, after a jolted landing and waiting in the middle of the runway.

ON THE BOARD! Go #teamcanada 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

less then 10 min to #teamcanada gold-medal women's hockey game! where are we watching from today? i've put the game on at my desk. #yeg

Phase 1 parking ban starts tomorrow 7am in #yeg

Celebrate the spirit of the Olympic Winter Games in Fort McMurray | CBC News Watch the women’s Olympic hockey gold medal final at the Wood Buffalo Regional Library on Thursday, Feb. 19.

With that STELLAR game by Poulin 👏🏼👏🏼 and the 2-1 #TeamCanada win over Switzerland, CBC Edmonton's watch party at Wood Buffalo Regional Library in #FortMac is a GOOOOOOO 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Details 🏒🥅⤵️ gonna be a great time this Thursday, Fort McMurray
#olympics

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Careful if you're out walking today, esp in/out of #yeg river valley. SUPER icy today. @cityofedmonton.bsky.social

Ready to ring in the Year of the Fire Horse at West Edmonton Mall today with the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre!

Come join me and co-host Stephen of RTHK at the Ice Palace for festivities, lion dances and more 🧧🐎🧧 #yeg

Big ups to ETS Valley Line SE drivers who wait if they see a passenger running to get on, and even open the closest door when you get there 🚆 #yeg

Update from Devin Heroux re: #MarkMcMorris 🏂

#teamcanada #olympics

Canada's Mark McMorris stretchered off hill after fall in pre-Olympic snowboard training | CBC Sports Canada's three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher.

breaking: Mark McMorris stretchered off hill after fall in pre-Olympic snowboard training | CBC Sports #milanocortina #olympics

www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

Excellent reporting, thanks Janet

Alberta vetting process limits sexual education materials for students, some experts say | CBC News Some sexual health education experts, advocacy groups and teachers say new provincial approval requirements have left educators with inadequate options to teach Alberta’s health curriculum.

I'll be talking about this story on the radio later this afternoon (5:05 p.m. in Edmonton, 5:20 pm in Calgary on CBC Radio 1) about the Alberta government's new approval process for sexual health education resources and outside presenters. #AbEd #AbLeg

8 years into #remission, it's the 1st time I've intentionally shortened my hair post-cancer🎗️💇🏻‍♀️➡️💁🏻‍♀️

Seeing Alice in #Shrinking and Emily in #EmilyinParis also confirms it: 2026 is the year of the cute bobs and short 'dos. #cancer #fkcancer

Alberta vetting process limits sexual education materials for students, some experts say | CBC News Some sexual health education experts, advocacy groups and teachers say new provincial approval requirements have left educators with inadequate options to teach Alberta’s health curriculum.

Last fall, a new vetting process took effect for sex education resources and presenters in Alberta.

Teachers and sex education experts say what has been approved is limited and has significant gaps. And they’re worried about the effects for students of watered-down sex ed #AbEd #AbLeg

Learned so much from UofA researcher/prof John Ussher, who has been studying GLP-1 drugs for +15yr

Ussher says the future of these drugs lies in increasing their bioavailability as 💊

He also discusses what happens when GLP-1 use➡️ muscle mass loss, then you go off the drug...tl:dr not good
#ozempic

Ecuadorian preschooler Liam Conejo Ramos and his father are back in Minneapolis after being released from a Texas detention facility where they were held for more than a week, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro. https://cnn.it/46o0gAM

Posted a video:
How is the Town of Jasper doing on Feb 1st? ➡️ vt.tiktok.com/ZSabY8Rno/

Being a night owl can be bad for your heart. That may sound surprising but a large study found people who are more active late at night have poorer overall heart health than the average person. Here's what to do to improve your health.
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Texas A&M University is ending its women's and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling six classes as part of a new policy that limits how professors can discuss some race and gender topics, school officials announced Friday.
https://cnn.it/3Z7xD7d

Had a fantastic time talking about #GLP-1 #medicines #ozempic with @jessicacbc.bsky.social a few days ago for CBC Radio Active www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Friday, Dec. 5, marks the official launch of CBC's Make The Season Kind campaign. We'll have special local programming right across the country that day in support of annual holiday drives by ... Friday, Dec. 5, marks the official launch of CBC's Make The Season Kind campaign. We'll have special local programming right across the country that day in support of annual holiday drives by local fo...

For the past holiday seasons, Catherine O'Hara had been part of getting the word out there about @CBC Make the Season Kind holiday giving campaign.
Here's the 2025 video. She shines here, as always.

📹➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/brodie...

a woman is holding a cup of coffee and the word exactly is above her ALT: a woman is holding a cup of coffee and the word exactly is above her

GUTTED over the death of the shining light of Schitt's Creek, 🇨🇦's #CatherineOHara.

Rest in peace, queen of The Crowening 🐦‍⬛🎭🎞️
Thank you for sharing your grace and talent with the world.

Stephen Colbert announces date of final episode of The Late Show CBS announced in July that Late Show would end in May, more than 30 years after 1993 debut under David Letterman The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will air on 21 May, the host has announced. Colbert, who has hosted the show since 2015, revealed the date on Monday during a taping of NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers to air on Tuesday night. Colbert will appear on Meyers’s show as a guest. Continue reading...

Stephen Colbert announces date of final episode of The Late Show

New details show vigorous, pricey process to identify explicit books in Edmonton schools | CBC Accessibility The 329 pages of records, obtained by CBC News, reveal that 11 teachers were hired by Edmonton Public Schools for a four-week summer project to review books for sexually explicit content, at a cost of...

My colleague, Julia Wong, filed an access to info request to find out how Edmonton Public Schools came up with its first list of books to remove from shelves to comply with new provincial orders (that have since changed). The premier accused the board of "vicious compliance." #AbLeg #AbEd #yeg

1974 days sober - woah 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#Oilers broadcast fave McMullet 🏒is at his 200th Edmonton Oilers HOME GAME IN A ROW tonight 😱

McMullet/Trevor Weal dropped by to tell us about partnering w/Ben Stelter Foundation and his incredible journey of sobriety.

🤳 icmyi the conversation ➡️ lnkd.in/gFje3Mes
#yeg

Told y'all on New Year's that @andrewphung.bsky.social was dancing in his many coats.
Here's the proof ⤵️ from #yeg Ice District

With Ian Hanomansing & Andrew Phung- We'll be your Edmonton crew on the CROSS-🇨🇦 COUNTDOWN for New Year's Eve!🤘🏼📺📻

Show will be LIVE on CBC TV, Gem app, CBC YouTube + RADIO ONE at 8:59pm local time⌚️🎊

See you tonight, Canada 🇨🇦 we're getting ready to countdown every time zone to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣!!
🥳 🥂 🍾 #yeg #nye

related: #yeg providing an update on snow and ice removal as well as phase 1 parking ban tomorrow at 9:30am