Category: Voices

  • OUTShine 2015 Connects Canadian LGBTQA High School Students and Educators to Promote Youth Leadership

    Toronto–Egale Canada Human Rights Trust presents OUTShine 2015, Canada’s National biennial Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Summit. From May 15th to 17th in Winnipeg, Manitoba, hundreds of high school students and educators from across the country will come together to discuss Lesbian, Gay, Sexual, Trans and Ally (LGBTA) issues, GSA strategies, and anti-bullying initiatives to combat the…

  • Carcass 101 Event Set to Come Back to Olds College For Second Year in a Row

      ROCKYVIEW, AB – Carcass 101, a producer-focused training about beef cattle meat quality, will take place on June 8th-10th in Olds, AB. The event will commence with a reception on the Monday night followed by two-days of learning in the National Meat Training Centre at Olds College. Association CEO Rob Smith says, “We are…

  • Teams and Volunteers Needed in High River for Capital One Race for Kids

    Teams and Volunteers Needed in High River for Capital One Race for Kids

    Grown Ups Play, Kids Win High River – On Saturday, June 6th the Capital One Race for Kids is coming to High River. The National Fundraising event is a fun 5 km urban adventure race where teams of 4 adults complete 10 checkpoint challenges that will remind them of their childhood. All proceeds of the…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Serving Fruit

    Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Serving Fruit

      By Reena Nerbas Cleaning Glue off Cement Hi Reena, When I bought my house, there was a large green mat glued to the concrete porch. The mat recently ripped and had to be torn off, as it became a hazard. Now hard glue (maybe cement glue) remains. How can I get this off so the cement…

  • Hunt for Alumni to Celebrate 50 Years of Special Alberta Camp

    Hunt for Alumni to Celebrate 50 Years of Special Alberta Camp

      This summer will mark the 50th anniversary for Easter Seals Camp Horizon. In preparation for this special celebration we are requesting help in reaching alumni from the past 50 years. Camp memories and stories last a lifetime. Thousands of Albertans have given their time, energy, and passion to make a difference in the lives…

  • STARS Announces Winners of 2015 Lottery

    STARS Announces Winners of 2015 Lottery

      Alberta – Many Albertans have much cause to celebrate, following the announcement of the 2015 STARS Lottery grand prize winners Thursday. The lottery raised more than $11.2 million net, with 3,227 prizes worth more than $5.3 million retail. Calgary resident and Edmonton show home winner Justin Hasanen was overjoyed with his win. “I have…

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope for April 17 – 24, 2015

      By Eric Francis   Aries (March 20-April 19) — Take care of unfinished business. Make sure you’ve said what you have to say, and done what you have to do. I suggest you go back and do an inventory of what you have not completed and any promises you have not kept. Choose from…

  • The North West Foothills Recreation Board Needs Your Input

    The North West Foothills Recreation Board Needs Your Input

    Who We Are The North West Foothills Recreation Board (NWFRB) was founded in 2010 to explore and develop recreation projects within Council Divisions 3, 4 and 5 of the Municipal District of Foothills (Millarville, Priddis, Red Deer Lake & De Winton Areas). NWFRB is a Committee of the Municipal District of Foothills (M.D.) Council. The…

  • Choosing Your Financial Advisor

      Choosing a financial advisor is as important as choosing investments.  With either, taking time to make the right decision can have a big impact on portfolio performance over the long term.  There is much to consider. Seek a professional who fits your financial goals.  Many advisors are specialists and, just as you wouldn’t use…

  • More Than a Breath Mint!

    More Than a Breath Mint!

      Calgary – Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is practical and realistic training, which strengthens community safety and preparedness, through increased civic participation. Community residents who become CERT certified are equipped and ready to react not only with heart but with their head. Having basic emergency knowledge and practical training provides a safer response for…

  • Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day: The Responsibility to Remember

    Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day: The Responsibility to Remember

    TORONTO, April 15, 2015 /CNW/ – On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, 70 years after the last Nazi death camp was liberated, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation is mindful that the entreaty of “Never Again” takes on a new urgency. The extent of that tragedy and its reverberations across the decades are still difficult to…

  • Assembly of First Nations National Chief Demands RCMP and Minister Valcourt Share Information Regarding Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

    Assembly of First Nations National Chief Demands RCMP and Minister Valcourt Share Information Regarding Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

    (Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde expressed serious concern that the federal government and the RCMP are withholding important and sensitive information about violence against Indigenous women and girls, and is demanding that this information be shared immediately with First Nations so that it can help inform work to…

  • Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

    Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

      If the budget put forward by Jim Prentice and the PC party becomes law, Alberta will be the first province in Canada to put a heavier tax burden on charitable giving. Budget 2015 slashes the tax credit for Albertans who give to charity by 39 per cent, from 21 per cent to 12.75 per…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Spring Cleaning

    Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Spring Cleaning

    By Reena Nerbas Chemical Sensitivity Dear Reena, I have a disorder called ‘Chemical Sensitivity’, which is sensitivity to a huge array of products. So I buy a lot of less toxic products such as; vinegar and baking soda but I tend to react to those as well. I would like to remove the spots on…

  • From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Alice Hoffman and Ann-Marie MacDonald

    From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Alice Hoffman and Ann-Marie MacDonald

    By Lynn Willoughby The Museum of Ordinary Things ~ Alice Hoffman Coralie is the daughter of The Professor, a dark, sinister, tyrannical master of a freak show on Coney Island in the early 1900s. Coralie is the “Mermaid” who performs daily alongside the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, a one hundred year old turtle, plus other…