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8:46 p.m.

A foot in two provinces, Lloydminster ponders differing COVID-19 orders

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Gerald Aalbers lives and works in Alberta, but he can see Saskatchewan from his office window.

As the mayor of Lloydminster, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, he’s dealt with some unique situations.

Now, he says, the city is in the middle of one of it biggest challenges yet as it navigates the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s very difficult,” Aalbers said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

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8:44 p.m.

Corbella: Shandro fixes mess he created but doctors still lack trust in UCP

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Columnist Licia Corbella writes: Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro had the opportunity on Friday to slather some soothing balm on the festering wounds he created with the province’s doctors and bandage them up.

Instead, while he may have re-set some broken policy bones, he did not have a grace-filled bedside manner in his delivery.

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7:43 p.m.

‘Real wreck’ on horizon as packing plant slowdowns leave Alberta cattle with nowhere to go

Because of COVID-19 outbreaks among employees at meat processing facilities across North America (including in Alberta at the Cargill plant at High River and the JBS plant at Brooks), Western Canada’s slaughter capacity is about 25 per cent of normal. Facilities that once processed an average of 9,000 cattle per day are now processing just over 2,000 — leading to a backlog of ready-for-market cattle that have nowhere to go and whose numbers snowball by the day.