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  • Applications are Open for the 2020-21 RCMP National Youth Advisory Committee

    Applications are Open for the 2020-21 RCMP National Youth Advisory Committee

    Edmonton – Applications for the RCMP National Youth Advisory Committee (NYAC) are now open to Canadian residents between the ages of 13 and 21. The RCMP NYAC brings together up to 100 youth from across Canada to discuss important issues that they face in their respective communities. The NYAC provides valuable input to RCMP policies, programs and strategies. Split…

  • Longview Library News: Summer Reading

    Longview Library News: Summer Reading

    The Writers Group met el fresco at the home of Linda Givens in June. Refreshments were served and a lovely afternoon was had by all. The group will not meet until September. The curbside pick up of books is going well. If you have any questions about this, please phone Lynda, our librarian, at 403-558-3927 and she…

  • Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Fun in the Sun

    Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Fun in the Sun

    Most people love sunny, warm days, when they can get outside for fun and soak up the sun. But sun is one good thing you can have too much of – and not even know you’ve had too much until much later, when, like about 80,000 Canadians every year, you’re diagnosed with skin cancer. Fortunately,…

  • RCMP Announces Newly Funded Police Officer and Civilian Support Positions

    RCMP Announces Newly Funded Police Officer and Civilian Support Positions

    Edmonton – The announcement of Alberta’s Police Funding Model has resulted in additional resources for the Alberta RCMP for 2020/21, specifically 76 new police officers and 57 new civilian support positions. These additional resources will directly or indirectly support frontline policing in communities we serve across rural Alberta. The Alberta RCMP understands that police resource…

  • Seven Albertans Joining Alberta Order of Excellence

    Seven Albertans Joining Alberta Order of Excellence

    Seven remarkable Albertans will be invested into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2020. The Order recognizes those who have made an outstanding provincial, national or international impact, and is the highest honour a citizen can receive as an official part of the Canadian Honours System. “Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence represent the…

  • Launch of the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans

    Launch of the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans

    14 May 2020 –  Hamilton, ON – Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (Centre of Excellence) is proud to announce its official launch at McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences. With more than 40% of Canadian Veterans suffering from chronic pain, the Centre of…

  • Thousands of Albertans Get to Work on Keystone XL

    Thousands of Albertans Get to Work on Keystone XL

    After more than a decade of planning and perseverance, shovels are in the ground on the Alberta segment of the Keystone XL pipeline.  Almost 12 years after TC Energy first proposed the project, thousands of local workers, including engineers, welders, heavy equipment operators, labourers, teamsters, safety inspectors, Indigenous monitors and other skilled tradespeople, are lacing…

  • Kananaskis RCMP Search for Missing Hikers Ends in Rescue

    Kananaskis RCMP Search for Missing Hikers Ends in Rescue

    Kananaskis, Alta. – On July 7, 2020 at 1:15 p.m., Kananaskis RCMP were advised by Kananaskis Emergency Services that two hikers were overdue from a hike into Turbine Canyon. The couple from Calgary had planned an overnight excursion and were expected to return on July 6, 2020.  When the couple hadn’t returned the morning of July 7, family…

  • Independent Third-party Investigation Announced

    Independent Third-party Investigation Announced

    Minister of Health Tyler Shandro has ordered an independent third-party investigation into Alberta Health Services’ response to a racist act in 2016. “In 2016, a piece of rope tied into a noose was found taped to the door of an operating room at the Grande Prairie Hospital. In August of 2019, I was first made…

  • High River RCMP – Shoplifting at No Frills

    High River RCMP – Shoplifting at No Frills

    High River, AB – On June 25, 2020, a female suspect entered the No Frills in High River.  The female proceeded to fill her cart with groceries, then hid out of view of the surveillance cameras to place these groceries into bags.  The female exited the store without paying for the groceries, and left in…

  • Claresholm Fair Days Will Feature a Reverse Parade

    Claresholm Fair Days Will Feature a Reverse Parade

    Claresholm Fair Days takes place the second weekend in August every summer. Fair Days celebrates what small town living truly means with a Bench Show, parade, show ‘n’ shine, rodeo events, pancake breakfasts, and much more! This year we are also celebrating the 115th year of Claresholm as a Town! We hope you will stop…

  • Highway 3 Twinning Creates Jobs, Improves Highways

    Highway 3 Twinning Creates Jobs, Improves Highways

    The Government of Alberta will twin a 46-kilometre stretch of Highway 3 between Taber and Burdett. The twinning project will support about 755 jobs and will drive economic recovery and diversification in southern Alberta. Twinning Highway 3 will improve safety along this increasingly busy portion of the highway. “This project is part of our government’s…

  • Tips for Instagram Influencer Marketing in 2020

    Tips for Instagram Influencer Marketing in 2020

    In the last few years, Instagram having a high growth with many followers and millions of subscribers. Addition to that, Instagram is expanding towards many features that attract many teenagers. With the feature of stories, snaps, and many more., Instagram makes a remarkable platform in social media. WHAT EXACTLY THE INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER? Generally, Instagram influencers…

  • Healthy Together: Getting the Most Out of Your Food

    Healthy Together: Getting the Most Out of Your Food

    Focus On Healthy Choices Your Family Enjoys We all have to eat. But how we get and eat food may have changed a lot during COVID-19. Home cooking is up. Trips to the grocery store are more complicated. Home delivery has soared. And the amount of money you have to spend on food may have…

  • Fatal Single Motorcycle Collision Hwy 546, Turner Valley, Alberta

    Fatal Single Motorcycle Collision Hwy 546, Turner Valley, Alberta

    On July 7, 2020, at approximately 9:00pm Turner Valley RCMP and EMS responded to a single motorcycle collision on Highway 546 west in Foothills County, where it was determined a 24-year old Calgary, Alberta, male driver of the motorcycle was deceased on scene.  Four motorcyclists were travelling from Calgary to Sheep River Falls at the time of the incident.  …