Category: Voices

  • Beyond the Pail

    Beyond the Pail

    It may be water torture for some, but the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is everywhere these days. For the uninitiated, the charitable campaign is promoting awareness about ALS – or Lou Gehrig’s disease – by encouraging people to film themselves pouring a bucket of ice water over their heads and then challenging others to do…

  • Beloved nun wraps pastoral career with Blackfoot honour

    Beloved nun wraps pastoral career with Blackfoot honour

    Sister Ivy given the name Holy Star Woman by Martin Eagle Child Story and Photo by Sherri Gallant Sister Ivy McCann has spent the past 14 years praying for the sick and dying in Lethbridge. After retiring in July from her pastoral work at Chinook Regional Hospital and St. Michael’s Health Centre, the diminutive nun…

  • Trail Connection Between Calgary and Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park In The Works

    Trail Connection Between Calgary and Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park In The Works

    Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation (GRPF) is leading the initiative to raise funds to connect the Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park trail system to the City of Calgary. “With the exciting news that the City of Calgary is building their trail system to the provincial park boundary, we’re fundraising to complete the eastern trail that will link…

  • Faith Forum ~ Maturing into Childhood

    Faith Forum ~ Maturing into Childhood

    Having recently experienced another beautiful granddaughter being added to our family, I am reminded again of the cycle of life, and also seeing a ‘twist’ in that cycle of life when it comes to life with God. When a child is born into a family, the next eighteen or so years of his or her…

  • Canadians donate over $ 10 million to ALS Canada and ALS Provincial Societies through the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS

    Canadians donate over $ 10 million to ALS Canada and ALS Provincial Societies through the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS

    TORONTO /CNW/ – The outpouring of support Canadians have shown for the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS, has now surpassed $10 million in donations for ALS Canada and ALS Provincial Societies across the country. The dollars given through this viral phenomenon will help families living with ALS and fund ALS Research to find a treatment.…

  • Have You Visited the Turner Valley Gas Plant?

    Have You Visited the Turner Valley Gas Plant?

    Turner Valley, May 14, 1914. The dramatic rush blasting from Calgary Petroleum Product’s Dingman No. 1 well would soon help change the nature of Alberta forever. Here, the discovery of petroleum 100 years ago led to the creation of Alberta’s first natural gas plant, helping start the modern era of oil and gas exploration and…

  • Selfless Selfies Support Diabetes Prevention

    Selfless Selfies Support Diabetes Prevention

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 27, 2014 /CNW/ — JAZZ apples are putting their money where your mouth is. “Crunch to Contribute,” a social media campaign that offers a $1 donation to the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) or American Diabetes Association in exchange for every JAZZ apple photo uploaded to www.jazzapple.com/c2c, has people everywhere crunching for…

  • Planet Waves Monthly Horoscope for September 2014

    Planet Waves Monthly Horoscope for September 2014

    By Eric Francis Aries (March 20-April 19) The chaos factor you’re experiencing may be the result of clinging to an idea about yourself — some point of identity, which feels like insisting on ‘I am’. This has its effect whether one claims to be a doctor, married, cool, pure, gay, straight, trans, smart, stupid, old,…

  • Bark For Life in Okotoks 2014

    Bark For Life in Okotoks 2014

    The Canadian Cancer Society Bark For Life is a 2- to 4-hour fundraising walk for dogs and their owners to celebrate the lives of those who have survived cancer, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back against the disease. More than just a walk, Bark For Life is an opportunity for people to…

  • Help Catch Canada’s Most Wanted

    Help Catch Canada’s Most Wanted

    Calling all those who love nature and the great outdoors: Did you know that far too many damaging items have been spotted in our Canadian parks, streams, lakeshores and beaches? You can help. Here, the Vancouver Aquarium and WWF’s Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, outlines the top ten shoreline litter culprits:…

  • Sheep River Library Fall Programs

    Sheep River Library Fall Programs

    As thoughts turn to the end of summer, kids returning to school and vacations now over, you may start to wonder what the library has on offer with its fall programs. For an exhaustive list, just go to the centre pull out pages of this issue of the High Country News to see what is…

  • Government of Canada Announces Investment in Prince Albert National Park’s Bison Initiative

    Government of Canada Announces Investment in Prince Albert National Park’s Bison Initiative

    Celebrate the Valleyview Lookout Trail and Picnic Area Ribbon Cutting Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan – Mr. Rob Clarke, Member of Parliament for Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced the Government of Canada’s investment in trail development and improved visitor facilities on…

  • Andrew Farrell Declared Master of the Mac & Cheese at the 2014 Grate Canadian Cheese Cook-Off

    Andrew Farrell Declared Master of the Mac & Cheese at the 2014 Grate Canadian Cheese Cook-Off

    TORONTO, Aug. 27, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Expert culinary dueler, Chef Andrew Farrell, took home top honours today at the 2014 Grate Canadian Cheese Cook-Off for his Crispy Greens Mac & Cheese. The big mac & cheese showdown took place at Dairy Farmers of Canada’s Canadian Cheese Counter at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto…

  • Bar U Ranch Chore Horse Competition

    Bar U Ranch Chore Horse Competition

    Horse Power – the Original Big Engine! Parks Canada – Experience the ultimate in teamwork on Sunday, September 7. Watch a working partnership between man and beast as they try to best a timed obstacle course. It harkens back to times when getting the chores done depended on horses. Today’s teamsters will bring their animals…

  • Statement from Dr. Chris Simpson, President of the Canadian Medical Association on a National Pharmaceutical Program

    Statement from Dr. Chris Simpson, President of the Canadian Medical Association on a National Pharmaceutical Program

    OTTAWA, Aug. 27, 2014 /CNW/ – The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, Canadian Doctors for Medicare and the Canadian Union of Public Employees is absolutely correct in calling for a national program to address the patchwork quilt of public drug coverage that currently exists in Canada. While many Canadians have supplementary insurance to offset costs…