Author: Gateway Gazette

  • ACAD Celebrates Becoming a University

    ACAD Celebrates Becoming a University

    The only post-secondary institution in the Prairie provinces devoted exclusively to fine arts education is about to become a university. The Alberta government is giving the Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) university status, based on the high-quality programs it offers. The school has a number of degree programs, including a bachelor of fine…

  • Kidney Foundation of Canada across Alberta Launching Campaign to Increase Organ Donation as Kidney Health Month Begins

    Kidney Foundation of Canada across Alberta Launching Campaign to Increase Organ Donation as Kidney Health Month Begins

    The statistics are well-known, especially to Canadians waiting for a transplant: there are 4,585 Canadians on the list, and, in 2016, 260 Canadians died while waiting. “It is unacceptable that people are dying as they wait on a list – especially when research tells us 90% of Canadians support organ donation,” says Joyce Van Deurzen, Executive…

  • Trump and Boeing Reach “Informal” Agreement for New Air Force One

    Trump and Boeing Reach “Informal” Agreement for New Air Force One

    AeroTime Staff The President of the United States negotiated with Boeing to acquire two new Air Force One planes. They agreed on a total cost of $3.9 billion, according to the White House. Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told Reuters that the new “informal” deal reached with Boeing would save the taxpayers $1.4 billion. Boeing confirmed that “President Trump…

  • Alberta RCMP Partner with EPS for Fraud Prevention Month

    Alberta RCMP Partner with EPS for Fraud Prevention Month

    Edmonton, Alta. – Oon March 1, 2018 at MacEwan University, Alberta RCMP and the Edmonton Police Service partnered at the March Fraud Prevention Month campaign kick-off event. For four weeks the Alberta RCMP will join their partners, the Edmonton Police Service, the Calgary Police Service, Service Alberta, the Canada Revenue Agency, Competition Bureau, Interac and Better…

  • Town of Okotoks Prepares for Legalization of Cannabis

    Town of Okotoks Prepares for Legalization of Cannabis

    With the provincial government’s recent announcement on the regulations around cannabis retail stores, the Town of Okotoks has received an increasing number of inquiries from potential business owners. However, there are several steps before any applications can be submitted or accepted for retail cannabis establishments in Okotoks. “We have been waiting for the provincial government…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 5 – 12, 2018

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 5 – 12, 2018

    By Eric Francis Coppolino ARIES — Don’t be afraid to have your life be all about you. It is, no matter what you do, even if you generously offer yourself to others. And this you’ve been doing for a while, with your ruling planet Mars expressing itself in its most selfless way possible, conjunct Vesta…

  • Communities Practice Wildfire Emergency Response

    Communities Practice Wildfire Emergency Response

    The province holds an annual emergency management exercise to improve disaster response; this year’s scenario is a forest wildfire that moves rapidly through rural communities to a large urban centre. Representatives from all levels of government, emergency management agencies, industry and six communities of the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) are working together from…

  • High River RCMP – Request public’s assistance to locate a suspect involved in an assault, hit and run investigation

    High River RCMP – Request public’s assistance to locate a suspect involved in an assault, hit and run investigation

    On March 2, 2018, at approximately 1:50 pm, High River RCMP responded to an assault that occurred on Hwy 543. The victim had been travelling on Hwy 543 when he became involved in a minor two vehicle collision which resulted in the male driver of the second vehicle getting out and assaulting the victim. The suspect then…

  • Securing Alberta’s Future Through Energy Diversification

    Securing Alberta’s Future Through Energy Diversification

    Alberta will build on its strengths by leveraging billions of dollars in new private-sector investment to create thousands of jobs in a diversified energy industry. Premier Rachel Notley announced that support for full-scale commercialization of partial-upgrading technologies will be among the government’s next steps toward energy diversification, taking action on recommendations from the Energy Diversification Advisory…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness: Healthier Eating Habits at Work

    AHS Weekly Wellness: Healthier Eating Habits at Work

    Alberta Health Services (AHS) is having a year-long wellness campaign called What’s your balance? Since many waking hours are spent at work- what you eat at work can have a big impact on your health and energy levels. If you are looking for ways to get more balance in your eating habits, try one or…

  • END OF AN ERA: Calgary Regional Partnership

    END OF AN ERA: Calgary Regional Partnership

    END OF AN ERA: Calgary Regional Partnership Mayors, Councilors and longtime community partners will gather for an 8:30 am breakfast, on Feb 28th 2018 at the Cochrane RancheHouse to close the doors of the CRP forever. Effective January 1, 2018, the Government of Alberta created a new regulated entity, the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB), which will be…

  • Xpedition 90X – Edmonton-based Airworks Compressors Will Be Making Antarctic History With Expedition of Firsts!

    Xpedition 90X – Edmonton-based Airworks Compressors Will Be Making Antarctic History With Expedition of Firsts!

    Airworks Compressors Corp. is embarking on an expedition of epic proportions! Xpedition 90X is a journey to the South Pole hailing from Edmonton, Alberta and will be making history this November 2018 with the first single vehicle expedition, first hybrid vehicle expedition and first Canadian-led driving expedition- to the South Pole, carving a definitive place…

  • Airdrie RCMP Officers Take Polar Plunge

    Airdrie RCMP Officers Take Polar Plunge

    Calgary, Alberta – Three local Airdrie RCMP officers helped raise money for the 2018 Polar Plunge to support Special Olympics. On Saturday, Feb 24, 2018, Airdrie RCMP officers; Inspector Kim Pasloske, Constable Kaeli Ritchie, and Constable Sylvain Nicolas participated in the 2018 Polar Plunge put on by the Alberta Law Enforcement Torch Run in Calgary. Days prior…

  • Alberta and Saskatchewan Child Advocates Travel to Bogota to Make Presentation to Human Rights Group

    Alberta and Saskatchewan Child Advocates Travel to Bogota to Make Presentation to Human Rights Group

    Del Graff, Alberta Child and Youth Advocate, and Corey O’Soup, Saskatchewan Advocate for Children and Youth will be traveling to Bogota, Colombia as part of a joint presentation to the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the issue of youth suicide. “We must work harder to…

  • Getting There: Alternative Federal Budget 2018 (Housing and Neighbourhoods Chapter)

    Getting There: Alternative Federal Budget 2018 (Housing and Neighbourhoods Chapter)

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative The 2018 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) delivers a roadmap to where the country could be on the eve of the next federal election, if the government moves forward with bold action to deliver a progressive economic plan that leaves no one behind. If implemented, the 2018 Alternative Federal Budget: Getting There will reduce…