Category: Lifestyle

  • Because You Cared: Former Paramedic ‘Forever Grateful’ for Nurse’s Care

    Because You Cared: Former Paramedic ‘Forever Grateful’ for Nurse’s Care

          Surprise ‘thank you’ a career highlight for 29-year health professional Story by Heather Marcoux Glenda Volk thought she was attending just another meeting on just another day at the Wainwright Health Centre. But then a recent patient, former paramedic Dan Schmidt, made a surprise appearance and turned the day into one of…

  • Lucky Stampede Lotteries Winners announced!

    Lucky Stampede Lotteries Winners announced!

      Prizes for the 2015 Stampede charity lotteries were valued at $1.3 million! A lucky group of people became Stampede Champions. Notable prizes up for grabs were a $864,000 dream home, almost a quarter of a million dollars cash, as well as a pickup truck with a boat. This year’s Stampede Champions are Paul Allred…

  • Giving Back in Today’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities from the Non-Profit Sector

    Giving Back in Today’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities from the Non-Profit Sector

      It’s no surprise that low oil prices and financial uncertainty in the markets has had a negative impact on Alberta businesses and families. Businesses all across the province have been faced with difficult decisions to downsize and lower costs. At the same time, families affected by job loss and lower incomes have relied heavily…

  • Harper Government Announces Tax Relief for Western Livestock Producers

    Harper Government Announces Tax Relief for Western Livestock Producers

    July 23, 2015 – Ottawa, Ontario – Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today released a list of designated regions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba where tax deferrals have been authorized for 2015. The designation allows livestock producers in prescribed drought regions who are facing feed shortages to defer a portion of their 2015 sale proceeds…

  • Geek is Chic

    Geek is Chic

    Library cards are cool again, thanks to alumna Tina Thomas A teenager in skinny jeans scans stands at a kiosk scanning a bright purple card with the tagline, “Chicks dig big brains.” Next to him, a young woman throws a tall stack of video games and CDs into a totebag that brags, “Library lovers never…

  • Data Count calls for an Investment in Seniors, Women & their Children Escaping Abuse

    Data Count calls for an Investment in Seniors, Women & their Children Escaping Abuse

      High River, AB – The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) is releasing the annual Shelter Data Count results, painting a picture of what one day is like in domestic violence shelters around the province. In November 2014, 36 member sheltering organizations that serve seniors, women and their children fleeing abuse recorded the number…

  • Student Values Social Work Certificate After 7 Years Living on the Street

    Student Values Social Work Certificate After 7 Years Living on the Street

    Working with Homeless program a life-changing experience for one grad By Danielle Fink Having real experience in a difficult situation is often the most effective way to relate to those in need. For Joe Skinner, a former student of the Faculty of Social Work’s Working with Homeless Populations certificate program (WHP), his real experience had…

  • Federal Funding to Fast-Forward Green Line to LRT for Calgary

    Federal Funding to Fast-Forward Green Line to LRT for Calgary

      In a historic move, the federal government has announced 1.5 billion dollars from the Public Transit Fund will be awarded to the Green Line project. This is the single largest infrastructure investment in Alberta’s history. What does this mean for Calgarians? The Green Line was initially planned to be constructed over 30+ years, starting…

  • Finding the Closest RCMP Detachment Just Got Easier with Launch of New Tool

    Finding the Closest RCMP Detachment Just Got Easier with Launch of New Tool

      Ottawa – A new online tool to help people easily check on services, hours and contact information for their local RCMP detachment has been launched on rcmp.ca. The mobile-friendly detachment locator tool includes information on 701 RCMP front-line service locations in 568 jurisdictions from coast to coast to coast. It provides up-to-date, interactive maps…

  • Dropping the Euro Won’t End Greece’s Misery

      The road to economic recovery will be an uphill battle strewn with major economic hurdles By Constantine Passaris, Professor of Economics, University of New Brunswick RHODES, Greece/ Troy Media/ – Fishermen around the world have an expression: it’s time to cut bait and start fishing. Clearly the contemporary leadership of the European Union (EU)…

  • HeartMath = Well-being

    HeartMath = Well-being

      Airdrie program teaches techniques to cut stress By Kerri Robins AIRDRIE — Taylor Ferguson finds himself at peace these days thanks to a ‘heart-brain connection’ he made through the HeartMath program, with help from Alberta Health Services (AHS) Rural Addiction and Mental Health Services. “The program is what I consider to be ‘eyes wide…

  • Canada Regains Top Spot in World’s Largest Survey of Country Reputations

    Canada Regains Top Spot in World’s Largest Survey of Country Reputations

      Reputation Institute’s Country RepTrak® uncovers most reputable countries based on level of development as well as quality of life and institutions BOSTON AND COPENHAGEN (July 15, 2015) – Canada has passed Switzerland to regain the top spot in Reputation Institute’s 2015 Country RepTrak®, the world’s largest annual survey of country reputations. Since the survey…

  • Today, Parents Get Child Care Payments from Harper Government

      Lump sum child care benefit of about $500 per child hits parents’ bank accounts and mailboxes, totalling $3 billion in a single day July 20, 2015 – High River – John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, celebrated the first installment of the Harper Government’s boosted Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) today. The newly…

  • Harper fails middle class with new payouts to wealthiest few

    Harper fails middle class with new payouts to wealthiest few

    FREDERICTON – Stephen Harper’s unfair system gives money to those who need it least, and only Justin Trudeau is offering new leadership and a new plan, said Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc today. “Harper’s Conservatives are at photo ops across the country trumpeting a payout – using taxpayers’ own money – that unfairly benefits the wealthiest…

  • Premiers Commit to Apprentice Mobility

    Premiers Commit to Apprentice Mobility

    ST. JOHN’S – Canada’s Premiers today signed a Protocol that will facilitate the mobility of apprentices across Canada. The Protocol will enable mutual recognition of technical training, work experience, and examination results for apprentices moving between provinces and territories in Canada. By 2016, the training and hours successfully completed by apprentices in one jurisdiction will…