These are the news stories that dominated Edmontonians’ interest this week. Sheritt to lay off nearly half of Canadian workforce Sherritt International Corp. says it will lay off about 280 employees, about 47 per cent of its Canadian staff, for three months as it works to restore operations at its refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. ‘Data centre valley’ offers advice to Alberta An American county known as “data centre valley” for its high concentration of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres has advice for Alberta: “The bill will come due if they’re not asking the right questions now.” While the industry has generated a large amount of revenue for the county, it has come with costs like pollution and adverse health effects, as well as questions like what to do with the infrastructure after its lifespan. Midterms ‘vindicate’ Alberta’s tariff approach: Smith Alberta’s premier says the blue wave that dominated the U.S. midterm elections proves her government was correct to try to improve its relationship with the U.S., such as by meeting with a Democrat senator from California, only briefly halting sales of U.S. liquor in 2025, and opposing Canada’s retaliatory tariffs. Auto theft ring busted Mounties say they’ve charged five people in connection with a network that stole, re-vinned, and then resold or exported vehicles from across Canada. Police allege one of the accused worked for a company that was contracted to destroy 950 RCMP vehicles. Excluding the decommissioned police units, investigators say the illegal vehicle sales were valued at about $6 million. Eye-catching properties listed in Edmonton Among Edmonton’s most-expensive residential real estate listings in October were an 80-acre property in the southwest, a MacKinnon Ravine-backed home in Grovenor, and an Alces home with its own private beach.
