{"id":518188,"date":"2026-03-06T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518188\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:42","slug":"rental-company-charged-after-fatal-2024-tent-collapse-at-buddhist-retreat-northwest-of-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518188\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental company charged after fatal 2024 tent collapse at\u00a0Buddhist retreat northwest of Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An equipment rental company is facing 10 workplace-related charges after a fatal tent collapse at a Buddhist retreat in\u00a0Alberta\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>One person was killed after fierce winds caused a massive tent to fall in on itself that July day just before a retreat was to begin at the Westlock Meditation Centre, northwest of Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Among the charges laid by Occupational Health and Safety include failing to properly anchor, restrain and secure the tent.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP had said there was about 100 people in and around the structure when it collapsed, and the woman who died was later identified as a 40-year-old from Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The company is named\u00a0Alberta\u00a0Special Event Equipment Rentals &amp; Sales Ltd., and The Canadian Press could not immediately locate a contact for it for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An equipment rental company is facing 10 workplace-related charges after a fatal tent collapse at a Buddhist retreat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-518188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}