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Alberta RCMP Reminds you to Wear your Seatbelt at all Times
Edmonton – Buckling up remains the simplest and most effective way to protect you and your passengers from injury in the event of a collision. The Alberta RCMP encourages you to practice the following traffic safety tips for optimal use of seatbelts: · Ensure the seatbelt is positioned securely across the hip bones and the shoulder. The shoulder belt…
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$100M for Surgical Suites, Equipment, Rural Hospitals
A $100-million government investment will help hospitals across the province upgrade their operating rooms to provide thousands more surgeries to Albertans. Large-scale renovations and some new operating rooms in Edmonton, Calgary, Grande Prairie and Lethbridge will allow those hospitals to focus on providing more complex surgeries, leaving rural sites and chartered surgical facilities to provide…
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Honouring Alberta Victims of Iran Plane Crash
Premier Jason Kenney has shared condolences from Albertans with the Iranian community and announced provincial support for a new scholarship that will honour the victims of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752. Albertans were swift to express their condolences online after the aircraft was shot down by the Iranian military on Jan. 8. Fifteen Albertans were…
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Longview Library: Writers + Readers = Love
The Writers Group have printed some stories and poems in a small publication called The Musings. They are available at the librarian’s desk. Do pick up a copy. Sketches are by Russ Rodman. Happy and comedic literature have always been equated with lightweight reading, and of very little literary merit. Jojo Moyes disagrees strongly, and has made…
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New Indigenous Addiction Treatment and Police Funding
New funding will expand the Blood Tribe safe withdrawal site and give local police the tools they need to keep Indigenous Albertans safe. The Alberta government is providing up to $2.2 million per year to expand the Kottakinoona Awaahkapiiyaawa (Bringing the Spirit Home) safe withdrawal management site from six beds to 24. This means that…
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Canada Task Force 2 Sharpen Their Skills in a Three-day Exercise
This week over fifty members of Canada Task Force 2 (CAN-TF2) from all over Southern Alberta participated in a three-day exercise that simulated a swarm of tornados impacting a town, damaging and destroying residences and businesses. Tornados are considered a high risk to Alberta, as they occur frequently and can cause serious damage. “The purpose of…
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Ending Accreditation of Child Care Centres: Minister Schulz
Minister of Children’s Services Rebecca Schulz issued the following statement on ending accreditation of child care centres: “Effective April 1, the Government of Alberta will no longer administer a child care accreditation system parallel to licensing. No other province in the country duplicates licensing and accreditation. “Eliminating accreditation lets child care providers spend more time…
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Trust in Science a Complicated Matter, Says Christian Professor
Rising skepticism can signal competing values. By BRENT WITTMEIER, University of Alberta It took Denis Lamoureux 13 years and four graduate degrees to accept his first biology lesson. In the early 1990s, Lamoureux was a University of Alberta doctoral student studying dental development and dental evolution, secretly hoping to debunk evolutionary theory because he felt…
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Creating Jobs, Accelerating Well Cleanup
A government loan to the Orphan Well Association (OWA) will spur the creation of hundreds of green jobs and reduce the number of orphaned wells across Alberta. As the first step in A Blueprint for Jobs, the province is extending its loan to the OWA by up to $100 million. This loan will bolster the association’s…
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Seat Belts Save Lives!
Buckle up! Okotoks Municipal Enforcement remind you that the most effective way to reduce the chance of injury or death in a motor vehicle collision is by wearing a seatbelt. Did you know that in Alberta, every person travelling in a motor vehicle must wear a seat belt? The penalty for seat belt infractions is…
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From My Bookshelf: Life on the Ground Floor
By Lynn Willoughby Life on the Ground Floor: Letters From the Edge of Emergency Medicine ~ James Maskalyk This is a deeply personal book for the author as he writes about his life as an emergency room doctor in Toronto, his humanitarian work in Ethiopia and his visits with his elderly grandfather in northern Alberta. I really…
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Alberta ‘Springs Forward’ on March 8
Minister of Service Alberta Nate Glubish issued the following statement on daylight saving time: “With daylight saving time officially arriving at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, Albertans are advised to set their clocks to ‘spring forward’ by one hour before going to bed Saturday night. “As many are aware, government invited Albertans to participate…
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A Bee From the Age of Dinosaurs
By Shireen Gonzaga, EarthSky News One hundred million years ago, a bee got trapped in tree resin. Over time, geological forces converted the resin to amber. Now a scientist arrives on the scene, to tell us this bee’s story. About 100 million years ago, a female bee with young beetle larvae crawling all over her body flew…
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Second Presumptive COVID-19 Case Reported in Alberta
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health has confirmed the province’s second presumptive case of novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. The individual is a male in his forties who lives in the Edmonton zone. The case is travel-related and he is recovering in isolation at home with support from public health officials. “While I know…
The Hatchery: a blog about my adventures in bird watching
