Category: News

  • Alberta Supports Energy Innovation Through Kinetica Ventures

    Alberta Supports Energy Innovation Through Kinetica Ventures

    Kinetica Ventures program supports innovative companies to grow and diversify the Alberta economy. The Government of Alberta will partner with the federal government’s Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP) to support Innovate Calgary and its Kinetica Ventures program. Kinetica will assist in ensuring new energy-related technologies with proven market demand can become commercialized in a…

  • RCMP Calgary – National Telephone Utilities Scam

    RCMP Calgary – National Telephone Utilities Scam

    The RCMP Federal Policing office in Calgary would like to warn the general public about an active telephone scam, which is going on across the country. RCMP have found this scam is being used in, at least, seven Provinces. In this telephone scam, the fraudster poses as an energy service provider employee, telephones a business,…

  • ASIRT: Officer Involved Shootings Investigated

      ASIRT concludes investigation into RCMP officer-involved shooting near Tofield On January 6, 2014, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed by the Director of Law Enforcement to investigate an RCMP officer-involved shooting that occurred near Tofield, Alberta. On the same date, two rural residences were broken into and property was stolen including…

  • Alberta PC: Candidate Nominations Open In 10 More Constituencies

    Alberta PC: Candidate Nominations Open In 10 More Constituencies

      On Saturday, the provincial Nomination Committee for the PCAA met and determined another round of constituency nominations to be held on 7 March if a vote is required. They are: Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Mackay Nosehill, Edmonton-Calder, Edmonton-Decore, Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Riverview, Edmonton-Rutherford, Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo and Livingstone-Macleod As well, Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville will hold their nomination on 5…

  • Calgary’s Round Tables on Sustainability – Future Cities and Inner-city Re-development

    Calgary’s Round Tables on Sustainability – Future Cities and Inner-city Re-development

      Pathways 2 Sustainability Calgary is a citizen led initiative focused on defining practical solutions to achieve Calgary’s sustainability goals as outlined by the imagineCALGARY Sustainability Plan. On January 29th, Sustainability Resources and Host Partner Brookfield Residential will host Calgary’s Round Table on Sustainability with guest speakers that include: Druh Farrell, City of Calgary Ward 7…

  • Libertarian Party of Canada nominates Cory Morgan in riding of Foothills (formally Macleod)

    Libertarian Party of Canada nominates Cory Morgan in riding of Foothills (formally Macleod)

      Local blogger and political activist Cory Morgan has been chosen to represent the Libertarian Party of Canada in the riding of Foothills (Macleod). A federal election is expected to be called this fall and Foothills is considered to be a key riding for the nascent federal party. “Small government and the protection of property…

  • Section of Little Bow Creek Closed to Public

    Section of Little Bow Creek Closed to Public

      High River, AB: A section of the Little Bow Creek has been closed to the public while crews complete the clean-up of a hydrocarbon spill that occurred on the weekend. The spill affected a storm water catch basin that feeds into the creek as well as a section of the creek from the east…

  • The Globe and Mail: CRA Revokes Charitable Status of Dying With Dignity

    The Globe and Mail: CRA Revokes Charitable Status of Dying With Dignity

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  • Government Responds to MP Barlow’s Order Questions re: High River Gun Seizure

      January 27, 2015 – Ottawa, Ontario Responses to Order Paper questions submitted by John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, on November 18, 2014 were tabled in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Barlow’s questions specifically requested explanations for the seizure of firearms by the RCMP,  and the possible involvement of the Canadian Armed…

  • Managing Cash Flow More Critical Than Ever For Small Biz

    Managing Cash Flow More Critical Than Ever For Small Biz

      Calgary – More than four in 10 of Alberta small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) surveyed run deficits at any given time of the year. That’s one of they key findings of the latest ATB Financial Business Beat. While 57 per cent of SMEs say they never run deficits, 42 per cent say they experience…

  • Alberta Government to Resolve 2013 DRP Flood Applications by Summer

    The Alberta government is aiming to close out all remaining 2013 Disaster Recovery Program files by increasing the number of caseworkers assisting flood victims and providing nearly $20 million in immediate funding to assist with repairs. In an effort to close out remaining 2013 DRP cases by summer of 2015, government will allocate an additional…

  • RCMP – Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia: Identity sought for serial robbery suspect

    RCMP – Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia: Identity sought for serial robbery suspect

      The RCMP from Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, as well as the Lethbridge Regional Police Service, are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect who is believed to have committed eight armed robberies across the three provinces.  The robberies occurred on/at the following dates and locations: ·       December 1st, 2014 at 2:42 pm…

  • Premier Thanks Raj Sherman for his Service

    Premier Thanks Raj Sherman for his Service

    Premier Jim Prentice issued the following statement following the announcement that Dr. Raj Sherman has stepped down as Liberal leader: “As Liberal leader, Raj has been a committed representative of his party members. “He is an advocate for health care and a champion for improving quality of life for all Albertans. “I expect that, as…

  • Statement by the NDP official opposition on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Statement by the NDP official opposition on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    NDP leader Tom Mulcair made the following statement on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Today we mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. “On January 27th 1945 – soldiers of the Soviet Union’s Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates and liberated the prisoners of the…

  • Statement from Premier Jim Prentice on United Nations International Day of Commemoration for Victims of the Holocaust

    Statement from Premier Jim Prentice on United Nations International Day of Commemoration for Victims of the Holocaust

    Premier Jim Prentice issued the following statement as Albertans mark the United Nations International Day of Commemoration for Victims of the Holocaust: “The Holocaust stands as the largest example of genocide in modern times. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime murdered six million European Jews – men, women and children. The Holocaust claimed another five million lives…