Category: News

  • MLA Pat Stier’s Decision, MLA Wildrose Party

    [break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break] MLA Pat Stier’s Decision Please be advised that, based upon information provided on the weekend, and then again at a special Wildrose Caucus meeting held here earlier today in Edmonton, I shall NOT be joining several of my colleagues who have decided to suddenly join the Progressive Conservative Caucus. Instead, I intend to remain…

  • Road closure at 16 Street and 12 Avenue S.E

    Road closure at 16 Street and 12 Avenue S.E

    HIGH RIVER, AB: There will be restricted access to the west entrance of the No Frills parking lot starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16 to allow crews to run utilities into the new Bank of Montreal development across from A & W. The closure will remain in place until end of day Wednesday,…

  • RCMP Alberta – December 16 2014

    RCMP Cochrane – Stoney Nation man dies as a result of collision with vehicle on Highway # 1. Cochrane – At approx. 6: 00am  on December 13, 2014 a 35 year old male pedestrian was hit by a passing motorist on Highway # 1 approx 1 km west of Highway # 22 south of Cochrane, Alberta.   The man, who’s…

  • RCMP Calgary – Mother-and-son-duo plead guilty to Ponzi Scheme

    Calgary, Alberta – On Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Lethbridge residents, Anthony Pittarelli a 45-year-old man and his mother, Marisa Pittarelli (also known as Giovanna Campanelli-Pittarelli), 66-years of age, both pled guilty to seven counts of fraud. The charges related to an investment fraud scheme where people were invited to invest in an entertainment event ticket reselling…

  • Alberta Takes Action to Control Spending

    Cost containment measures taken immediately, and new committee lays foundation for Budget 2015. Resource revenues are expected to be lower while the population is expected to be higher, and the combination poses some unique challenges for Alberta. “This is not budgeting as usual. Governing responsibly requires us to be disciplined with spending, prudent with revenues,…

  • CBC Radio: Duane Bratt on Wildrose-PC merger rumours

    CBC Radio: Duane Bratt on Wildrose-PC merger rumours

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  • RCMP Calgary – Arrests Made in Relation to 2006 Homicide

    RCMP have arrested and charged 28 year old David Daviau, with First Degree Murder and 29 year old Kyle Andree, with Manslaughter and Accessory after the fact.  Both accused are from Calgary, Alberta. Wayman Cornell Scott was 32 at the time of his death. His body was dumped in a frozen field near a rural road.…

  • Premier responds to Ethics Commissioner decision

    Premier responds to Ethics Commissioner decision

    Today Marguerite Trussler, Q.C., Alberta’s Ethics Commissioner, issued her report into allegations made during the October by-elections and found no issues or fault with respect to Premier Jim Prentice, Health Minister Stephen Mandel and Mike Ellis, MLA. Premier Prentice made the following statement with respect to this report: “The Ethics Commissioner’s dismissal of complaints today…

  • Time for the UN to get out of Climate Change

    Time for the UN to get out of Climate Change

    Negotiators and Secretary General continue to ignore scientists and public opinion OTTAWA, Dec. 13, 2014 /CNW/ – “Climate change negotiators in Lima, Peru seemed oblivious to the findings of the UN’s ongoing My World survey about what the people of the world really want the agency to focus on,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa,…

  • Broken Promises – Canada at Lima talks on Climate Change

    Broken Promises – Canada at Lima talks on Climate Change

    LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Days before the start of the Lima Conference on climate change (COP20), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Canada to become more ambitious and visionary on the global fight against climate change. The government’s current actions in Lima do not bring us anywhere close to that target. Adding…

  • RCMP Strathmore – Injury collision on Highway # 1 and Highway 561

    On December 14th, 2014 at 5:11 PM, the Strathmore RCMP responded to a 2 vehicle collision on Highway #1 and Highway #561. The Standard fire department and Strathmore EMS attended to assist with injuries on scene. There does not appear to be any life threatening injuries as a result of the collision. Alcohol was not…

  • Senate Unanimously Passes Elizabeth May’s Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act

    Senate Unanimously Passes Elizabeth May’s Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act

    “This victory belongs to all Canadians coping with Lyme disease and their loved ones. This bill never would have been passed into law without their advocacy and willingness to tell their stories. ” (OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May’s Private Member’s Bill, C-442, the Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act was passed unanimously at third reading by the Senate…

  • New Survey Results Reveal Municipal Govts Have Work to do to Win over Local Business

    Only 34 per cent of entrepreneurs across Alberta are confident their municipal government has a vision that supports small business CALGARY, December 11, 2014 – As mayors and councils across the province finalize their budgets, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) today released new survey results that show Alberta’s local elected officials face a…

  • CBC: Cellphone Privacy at issue in Supreme Court ruling

    CBC: Cellphone Privacy at issue in Supreme Court ruling

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  • The Harper Government cuts red tape for the Duty Free Shop industry

    The Harper Government cuts red tape for the Duty Free Shop industry

    The Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, yesterday announced changes to the Duty Free Shop Regulations that will streamline industry requirements, as well as reduce costs and the administrative burden on both the duty free shop industry and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Processes will be streamlined by eliminating…