Author: Gateway Gazette

  • The 2015 Stampede Queen and Princesses are Crowned

    The 2015 Stampede Queen and Princesses are Crowned

    Calgary – (Monday night) in a dazzling horseback ceremony, Mick Plemel, Haley Peckham and Kimberly Stewart were crowned as the 2015 Calgary Stampede Queen and Princesses. The 2014 Stampede Queen Danica Heath and Princesses Shannon Black and Stephanie Patterson gave their farewells and presented the crowns to the new Queen and Princesses. Mick Plemel –…

  • ISIS Releases a Fourth Video of a Hostage Beheading

    ISIS Releases a Fourth Video of a Hostage Beheading

    [break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break] An online video released Friday shows an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning, a former taxi driver who was taken captive while travelling with an aid convoy. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday on Twitter, “The brutal murder of Alan Henning by ISIL shows just how barbaric these terrorists are. My thoughts are with…

  • Auditor General Report on Chronic Disease Management

    Auditor General Report on Chronic Disease Management

    Merwan Saher, Auditor General of Alberta, released his office’s audit into how the Department of Health and Alberta Health Services manage healthcare delivery for individuals with chronic disease—a long-lasting condition that usually becomes worse and often cannot be cured. The purpose of chronic disease management is to provide care that helps people with chronic disease…

  • Royal Canadian Mint to reveal new circulation coin during Wait For Me, Daddy memorial sculpture unveiling event

    Royal Canadian Mint to reveal new circulation coin during Wait For Me, Daddy memorial sculpture unveiling event

    OTTAWA – The Royal Canadian Mint will reveal a new circulation coin during the City of New Westminster’s Wait for Me, Daddy memorial sculpture unveiling event this weekend. To learn more about the Wait for Me, Daddy memorial sculpture unveiling event, please visit www.waitformedaddy.com

  • Planet Waves ~ Weekly Horoscope for Friday, Oct. 3 – 10, 2014

    By Eric Francis Aries (March 20-April 19) Just because an agreement you have with someone needs to be renegotiated or clarified does not mean that everything is coming unraveled. But would it serve you better if you did? Do your current agreements really serve you? Upcoming events will demonstrate the value of your independence, something…

  • Red Cross grant supports community programming in High River

    Red Cross grant supports community programming in High River

    HIGH RIVER, AB: Residents are invited to enjoy free drop-in sports at the field house located in the Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex every Sunday thanks to a grant from the Canadian Red Cross. Activities will include a variety of sports and will run from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays starting October 5. “We are…

  • RCMP Consort – Officers investigating a shooting – Update #1

    Consort, Alberta – On October 3, 2014, at approximately 3:30 a.m. Consort RCMP officers were dispatched to a rural address of the Consort area where two adult males were found to have been shot.  One of the man was found deceased and the other man transported to hospital where he died during the night.  Officers were…

  • New Clinic Helps Heart Patients Who Can’t Stand To Stand Up

    New Clinic Helps Heart Patients Who Can’t Stand To Stand Up

    Libin Institute backs new clinic and research for sufferers of orthostatic intolerance Dr. Satish Raj is a cardiac electrophysiologist with big plans to help patients with a hard-to-treat condition called orthostatic intolerance. “Basically these patients do not deal well with gravity,” says Dr. Raj,  an alumnus from the clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship program at the…

  • Scrapping long-term care cuts not enough, more nursing beds needed

    Scrapping long-term care cuts not enough, more nursing beds needed

    EDMONTON, AB – Premier Jim Prentice must immediately commit to adding more long-term care capacity in order to avoid an emergency room crisis, Wildrose Seniors Critic Kerry Towle and Health Critic Heather Forsyth said today. According to recent reports, Alberta Health Services CEO Vickie Kaminski has pledged to abandon a long-standing plan to cut thousands…

  • Canada Post Kicks Off Annual Campaign for Community Foundation

    Canada Post Kicks Off Annual Campaign for Community Foundation

    Employee-led fundraising delivered $1.36M in grants for 2014 Ottawa (Ont.) – Today marks the beginning of a month-long fundraising effort by Canada Post and its employees to raise funds for the Community Foundation for Children. Funds raised through an annual in-store campaign, employee events and through sales of a special semi-postal stamp allow the Foundation…

  • Alberta Provincial Archives Exhibit tells Alberta First World War Stories

    Alberta Provincial Archives Exhibit tells Alberta First World War Stories

    Visitors to the Provincial Archives of Alberta can enjoy a free exhibit of vintage artifacts and print pieces that document Albertans’ experience throughout the Great War. To commemorate the centennial anniversary of the First World War, the Provincial Archives has produced Alberta & the Great War, an exhibit dedicated to how the war affected Albertans…

  • Ebola outbreak is nearing possible end in Nigeria and Senegal

    Ebola outbreak is nearing possible end in Nigeria and Senegal

    Strong emergency operations center, polio eradication experience keys to success The Ebola outbreak in Nigeria appears to be nearing a possible end due to a rapid response coordinated by Nigeria’s Emergency Operations Center with assistance from international partners, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The official end to an Ebola outbreak comes when…

  • OHS News: What is Drillers Athletic Society (DAS)

    OHS News: What is Drillers Athletic Society (DAS)

    DAS was formed in 2002 to promote healthy living by supporting athletic programs, youth development and positive sports culture. Support usually comes in the form of money which means DAS is basically a fund raising body consisting of interested parents, alumni, OHS staff, coaches and community members who value the extracurricular sports program at OHS.…

  • RCMP Cochrane – Arson/Mischief to Motorhome

    Mischief over $5000 Cochrane RCMP are seeking public assistance in identifying unknown subjects that broke into, and burned a recreational vehicle at the Ghost Lake Recreational Campground. Sometime between 10:00 AM on September 22nd and 10:00 AM on September 23rd, access was gained to a recreational vehicle that had been parked at the Ghost Lake…

  • Hudson’s Bay Company announces donation of historic mural to The Manitoba Museum

    Hudson’s Bay Company announces donation of historic mural to The Manitoba Museum

    TORONTO /CNW/ – Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) announced today the donation of a significant piece of its historic art collection to The Manitoba Museum (the “Museum”) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Pioneer at Fort Garry, a 16.5-metre by 3-metre oil-on-canvas mural, which had been a fixture in the Hudson’s Bay Winnipeg Downtown store since 1927, was…