Environmental law charity Ecojustice is asking a judge to shut down Alberta's controversial public inquiry into alleged foreign-funded attacks on the province's energy industry.

Bradley Barton had to be urged to call policeafter he awakened in his hotel room to find a bleeding,unresponsive woman, in the bathtub of his hotel room, a witness testified Wednesday.

A $3.5-million Alberta government public inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns has posted commissioned studies that experts say are based on junk climate-denial science, bizarre conspiracy theories and oil-industry propaganda.

A white Grande Prairie surgeon who tied a rope noose and taped it to the door of an operating room in June 2016 has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct by the regulatory body governing Alberta doctors.