- By noon on Feb. 25, about 92,000 Albertans who were born in 1946 or earlier had been booked to get their COVID-19 vaccinations. According to CBC News, about 230,000 seniors became eligible for the vaccine this week.
- Alberta Health Services (AHS) is reminding people to arrive for vaccines at the time that was booked, as many seniors are experiencing long wait times at vaccination centres. "Some individuals are arriving at appointments 30 to 60 minutes in advance, and as a result, wait lines are forming outside the facilities," AHS told the Edmonton Journal in an email.
- The provincial budget includes a roughly 25% cut over the next three years to funding for municipal infrastructure projects. While Edmonton will receive $43.2 million more in 2021, the city will face a significant decrease in the next two years.
- Edmontonian Maureen Bianchini Purvis was awarded one of the Meritorious Service Decorations by the Governor General for a project that aims to "ensure poppies are placed on veterans' headstones every November." Her charity is called No Stone Left Alone.
- An ex-Edmonton police officer reports she was "pressured into dropping a complaint against a fellow officer investigating her sexual assault allegation." The Edmonton Police Commission is now taking another look at the case, which involves an incident from 2016.
- CBC heard from researchers at the University of Alberta, who reported that Monday's meteor was a fragment of a comet. "This chunk was largely made of dust and ice, burning up immediately without leaving anything to find on the ground — but instead giving us a spectacular flash," the U of A's Patrick Hill said.
