alberta@noon
with Donna McElligott

Sports journalists, Min Dhariwal of CBC Edmonton and Vicki Hall of The Calgary Herald, focus on a big hockey weekend.

• Haley Simons of Creative Alberta describes the country's first Imagination Conversation
• Food columnist Cinda Chavich celebrates fiddleheads.
• Northlands president Richard Anderson talks about a Capital Ex name change
• Horticulturist Jim Hole takes gardening questions

• You can find the recipe suggested by Cinda Chavich in the recipes section on the right side of the page

Should our kids get summer jobs? Parenting columnist Julie Freedman Smith with parenting power has advice.

Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire, still listed as out of control, near Bonnyville. Several people were forced to leave their homes. We get the latest information from Diane Jenkinson, the Public Information officer for the MD of Bonnyville, and we hear from evacuee Chasan Vasseur. For the latest on wildfires emergencyalert.alberta.ca. For the latest on fire bans alberta fire bans

• Diane Jenkinson, info officer in Bonnyville MD updates the wildfire situation
• Chasan Vasseur describes having to evacuate his home because of fire
• Ian Donovan on seeding bee in Mossleigh for Eric and Wade Donovan killed in planecrash
• Jeff Rubin takes calls on his new book, The End of Growth

 

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• Jamie Coutts, Slave Lake Fire Chief, on the one-year anniversary of wildfires
• Tracy Johnson, Sr. Producer CBC Business Unit, on the future of CP Rail.
• Lynn MacCallum, Green Calgary, and Mark Stumpf-Allen, City of Edmonton on compost

Slave Lake marks the one year anniversary of the wildfires that devastated the community. We speak to Fire Chief Jamie Coutts.

• Wildfire Information Officer Geoff Driscoll on northern Alberta wildfires
• The CBC's Adrienne Lamb talks to the Vercholuks about the Slave Lake fire one-year later
• Chef Rob Rainford takes calls on his new cookbook, Born to Grill

A group of hockey players is trying to set a new world record for the longest hockey game, and raise money for the Alberta Children's Hospital at the same time. Travis and Troy Dashikewytch are among the hockey players taking part, and leslie Plumley is one of the organizers.hockey marathon