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  • Engaging with Saskatchewan on Common Issues

    Engaging with Saskatchewan on Common Issues

    Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon is meeting with Saskatchewan Environment Minister Dustin Duncan in Edmonton. Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon met with Saskatchewan Environment Minister Dustin Duncan in Edmonton to discuss advancing our mutual environmental and economic interests. The Sept. 19 bilateral engagement will allow the ministers to personally confer about…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: September 23 – 30, 2019

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: September 23 – 30, 2019

    ARIES — You need to frame your reality in terms of how hurt, offended, or uncomfortable you feel. Chiron in your sign will, at times, have a tendency to emphasize the most challenging elements of your awareness. Then you may be inclined to “identify with” them. The thing is, you would need to have something…

  • RCMP High River – Theft from Canadian Tire

    RCMP High River – Theft from Canadian Tire

    High River, AB September 23rd, 2019 On September 19th, 2019, at approximately 7:00 pm, High River RCMP responded to a theft from Canadian Tire in High River. An unknown male entered the store and left with a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner worth $400.00. The male left the area driving a white SUV northbound on 5th street SE. Police…

  • Elizabeth May Launches the Green Party’s 2019 Campaign in Victoria, B.C.

    Elizabeth May Launches the Green Party’s 2019 Campaign in Victoria, B.C.

    SIDNEY, B.C. (Sept 10, 2019) — Leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands) will officially launch the party’s 2019 campaign from a downtown hotel in Victoria, B.C. tomorrow. The campaign theme will be: honest, ethical and caring leadership. “We’re at a pivotal point in history,” said Ms. May. “The climate emergency we’re facing is…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness: Look for Ways to Lower your Stress

    AHS Weekly Wellness: Look for Ways to Lower your Stress

    Stress is a fact of life for most people. You may not be able to get rid of stress, but you can look for ways to lower it. Consider trying some of these ideas: Learn different ways to manage your time. You may get more done with less stress if you make a schedule. Think…

  • Assessing Bow Basin Water Management Options

    Assessing Bow Basin Water Management Options

    Area residents are invited to learn more and provide feedback about new reservoir options on the Bow River to reduce the impacts of flood and drought. Three information sessions are scheduled for Calgary and Cochrane that will share details on the government’s work to assess three potential flood and drought storage projects on the Bow…

  • Local Film Festival Goes International!

    Local Film Festival Goes International!

    The Edmonton Short Film Festival expands to two days! Local filmmakers asked … the Edmonton Short Film Festival (ESFF) made it happen … a second day has been added to this successful grassroots festival for Alberta filmmakers to have “longer form” short films considered for screening. “Adding a second day to the festival totally made…

  • Empowering Women to Enter the Skilled Trades

    Empowering Women to Enter the Skilled Trades

    The province is increasing funding to help more women enter the skilled trades and build rewarding futures for themselves, their families and all Albertans. Advanced Education Minister Nicolaides and MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk participates in a demonstration at Women Building Futures with class lead Deanna Currie, and Shawna Cloutier, student. Increased investment in Women Building Futures…

  • Westwinds Communities Focuses on the Future Needs of Affordable Housing Within the Foothills

    Westwinds Communities Focuses on the Future Needs of Affordable Housing Within the Foothills

    High River, AB: Westwinds Communities, the leading provider of affordable housing within the Foothills Region, has recently updated their guiding principles – allowing them to further refine their focus and ability to support families and individuals in the Foothills Region. “We recognize the new principles are a tool for our team members to focus on,…

  • More Nurse Practitioners to Improve Access to Care

    More Nurse Practitioners to Improve Access to Care

    Through $3 million in government funds, more people in rural and remote Alberta will be able to get health care from up to 30 new nurse practitioners. Minister of Health Tyler Shandro announces support for more nurse practitioners in Alberta. The nurse practitioners will work in Primary Care Networks and medical clinics in communities where…

  • Nominate a Deserving Unpaid or Informal Caregiver

    Nominate a Deserving Unpaid or Informal Caregiver

    Dr. Donna Wilson Caregiver Award Nominations are open for the Dr. Donna Wilson Caregiver Award, designed to recognize the vital importance of work provided by informal palliative caregivers across Alberta. This annual award of $500 recognizes the contribution of unpaid caregivers who work to maintain the independence and dignity of the person they help, through…

  • Placing the Blame: Why are Housing Programs Failing?

    Placing the Blame: Why are Housing Programs Failing?

    By Abe Oudshoorn, Western University While communities such as Edmonton are celebrating tangible progress on ending homelessness, the media landscape on homelessness in Canada is far more mixed. Communities such as London, Brampton, Belleville, Winnipeg, and Vancouver have all been recently identified as continuing to experience crisis levels of homelessness. This can be puzzling as the differences between these communities are smaller…

  • Celebrating the Great Kids of Alberta

    Celebrating the Great Kids of Alberta

    The Alberta government has awarded 16 young people the 2019 Great Kids Award for inspiring and changing the lives of others. The 2019 Great Kids Award recipients. The province gives out the Great Kids Award annually to recognize and celebrate kids who accomplish great things while overcoming challenges in their life. “I am honoured to…

  • From My Bookshelf: Dear Evelyn

    From My Bookshelf: Dear Evelyn

    By Lynn Willoughby Dear Evelyn ~ Kathy Page Harry and Evelyn meet when leaving the library in London, and he walks her home.  It is just as Britain is preparing to go to war against Germany.  The first part of the book is mostly the letters Harry writes to Evelyn from his long ride on…

  • New Rural Crime Watch App

    New Rural Crime Watch App

    High Country Rural Crime Watch Association There’s a new Rural Crime Watch App for your phone – created by the Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch Association.  It shows RCMP detachments and provides phone numbers to contact all.  Plus, it shares crime prevention tips and other agency contact info.  If you have your location service  “on”,…