Calgary - CBC News

A Calgary judge offered words of encouragement to a man heading to prison following a conviction for impaired driving that caused the death of a pedestrian.

Derek Nicholas Kwasney was handed a year in jail and a $106,000 fine for failing to pay taxes on money he embezzled from the resort. Those penalties come just weeks after he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and a $669,000 fine for a fraud conviction.

Thousands of RCMP officers will start wearing body cameras over the coming months, marking a pivotal shift in how Mounties and Canadians interact.

The provincial government says its water-sharing agreements were a "major success" and an arrangement that could be replicated in the rest of the country, as experts say important conversations around Alberta's water supply still loom in the years to come.