The RCMP says the helicopter patrols are monitoring the Prairie border to search for and target all illegal activity along the 49th parallel, including illegal border crossing, smuggling and drug trafficking in and out of the country.

Canada's federal government has assured Alberta that it will not bear a disproportionate burden of any retaliatory tariffs imposed in response to potential US import levies.

President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada over drug trafficking, equating it with Mexico. U.S. government reports do not support the claim.

The majority of Canada’s oil exports, largely produced in Alberta, go to the United States. And Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has flatly refused to entertain the option of cutting off that supply to American refineries if Trump slaps a 25-per-cent tariff on all Canadian goods, including gas and oil.

Any Canadian response to U.S. tariffs will be regionally fair and equitable and not single out Alberta, Canada's main oil-producing province, Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the government is promoting another opportunity for U.S. hunters to come shoot things here off-season

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will be holding off on imposing the tariffs he’s been promising, earning praise from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Ottawa’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada’s attempts to prevent the United States from levying damaging tariffs — a measure U.S. President Donald Trump has said could drive Canada into “failed state” status.

Donald Trump again said that Canada should become an American state, adding "it's sort of crazy" to suggest the U.S. needs Canadian imports.

Prior to Trump's inauguration, Smith travelled to the president's Florida home to advocate for Alberta's interests in response to the tariff threats.

Sharon Kinne, who fled a Mexican jail in 1969 and who was accused of killing three people in both the United States and Mexico was found to have been living a quiet life in a small Canadian town.

Nova imports ethane from North Dakota to supplement its supply from Western Canada, while its facilities in the Sarnia, Ont., region receive ethane from the Marcellus region in the U.S. Vermani estimates 50 to 60 per cent of Nova’s production from Canada crosses the border.