Tag: Good News

  • CN Tower Launches Accessible Wheelchair EdgeWalk Experience with Paralympian Rick Hansen and TORONTO2015 Games

    CN Tower Launches Accessible Wheelchair EdgeWalk Experience with Paralympian Rick Hansen and TORONTO2015 Games

    On August 7, 2015, TORONTO2015 Parapan Am Games Opening Day TORONTO, August 7, 2015 – On Friday August 7, 2015 at the CN Tower, Paralympian Rick Hansen joined by Olympian Alexa Komarnycky and Paralympian Carla Qualtrough helped launch the accessible wheelchair EdgeWalk experience 356m/1168feet above Toronto. Wheelchair participants can now add EdgeWalk to their bucket list…

  • Alberta supports producers as they manage challenging growing conditions

    Alberta supports producers as they manage challenging growing conditions

    The Government of Alberta is taking steps to help ensure agriculture producers dealing with dry conditions have resources to feed and water their livestock. Rental fees have been cut in half for Agriculture and Forestry’s Water Pumping Program. The program provides pumps and pipes to help producers get water for domestic and livestock use by…

  • Canada 150 Funds for University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre Near Nanton

    Canada 150 Funds for University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre Near Nanton

      Nanton, Alberta – (Friday), John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, on behalf of the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced support of $83,185 to enable the University of Lethbridge to renovate the Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage under the Government of Canada’s Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program.…

  • Sir John Franklin’s flagship found on Canadian stamps

    Sir John Franklin’s flagship found on Canadian stamps

      Issue celebrates 2014 discovery of long-lost HMS Erebus HALIFAX (N.S.) – In a special ceremony held at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (on July 22nd), Canada Post unveiled three stamps commemorating Sir John Franklin’s 1845 search for the Northwest Passage and the discovery of his vanished flagship − HMS Erebus − in September…

  • More articles from other sections

    More articles from other sections

    Don’t forget, the Gateway Gazette is part of a larger, publication network called Panoptic News. Be sure to check out other articles posted in the other sections too! While some of these sections may seem more logical at specific times of year, they are available year round for those who have a desire to access…

  • Horoscopes: Planet Waves For Aug 7 – 14, 2015

      By Len Wallick (standing in for Eric Francis) Aries (March 20-April 19) It appears as though a new chapter and another (quite separate) new verse are opening up for you. For the near future at least, it may seem as if you are living through both a song and a story at once. The…

  • Railroader’s reunion features designation of Hanna’s historic roundhouse

    Railroader’s reunion features designation of Hanna’s historic roundhouse

    The designation of the historic Canadian Northern Railway roundhouse as a Provincial Historic Resource will be showcased during the Railroader’s Reunion in Hanna, August 7 to 9. Railroaders and railfans from across Alberta and Canada will take part in festivities hosted at the century-old roundhouse. The official unveiling of the designation will take place on…

  • Blackfoot Arts and Heritage Festival: August 11 to 13

    Blackfoot Arts and Heritage Festival: August 11 to 13

      Waterton Lakes National Park – Parks Canada is pleased to be working with the Blackfoot Canadian Cultural Society to present the fifth annual Blackfoot Arts and Heritage Festival in Waterton Lakes National Park. The colourful three day festival runs from Tuesday August 11 through Thursday August 13 at the Waterton Community Centre.The event is…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Antioxidants

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Antioxidants

    There’s been a lot of excitement about antioxidants – nutrients that protect the body from damage due to “free radicals,” which are compounds produced by environmental toxins and normal body processes. Free radicals can damage cells throughout the body. There have been many claims about what antioxidants can do for our health, including protecting us…

  • Outstanding Students Awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medal

    Outstanding Students Awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medal

    Dedicated young Albertans received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal in a special ceremony on Friday, July 31. Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, presented the 2014 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal to the students. The medal, which recognizes recipients’ volunteerism and leadership in their communities and schools, was…

  • “What’s the Cost of a Latte?” – Update

    “What’s the Cost of a Latte?” – Update

    By Pam Jones, Editor. In just 24 hours since my article about the Perdue family’s plight, the response has been overwhelming. A few of the actions that have taken place include: Kayla Smith McCowan offering to donate all of her commissions from Thirty One Gifts sales until August 14th on this link: http://www.mythirtyone.ca/…/shop/Party/EventDetail/96789 and Chelsea…

  • Bruce Innes Benefit Concert a Sold Out Success

    Bruce Innes Benefit Concert a Sold Out Success

      A concert held at the Red Deer Lake United Church on July 26th saw friends and fans come together to support musician Bruce Innes. Bruce was badly hurt in a freak accident in Idaho last fall. The concert sold out and nearly $25,000 was raised…..but the donations are continuing! Bruce and his wife Wanda…

  • Outside-of-the-Box Look at Affordable Housing?

    Outside-of-the-Box Look at Affordable Housing?

    From shipping containers to crowd funding A continuous decline in affordable housing, along with an increase in the populations who need it, is forcing Calgary agencies to seek creative solutions. “I’m looking for anything that can help us provide housing in a more economical way,” said David Watson, president and CEO of Attainable Homes Calgary, a not-for-profit…

  • MP John Barlow welcomes funding from Government to modernize ports of entry in Alberta

    MP John Barlow welcomes funding from Government to modernize ports of entry in Alberta

      Waterton, Alberta Canada – MP John Barlow, on behalf of the Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, today announced the Harper Government will invest an estimated $113.65 million to improve infrastructure in the Prairie Region including the Chief Mountain port of entry in Alberta. This investment is part of…

  • Harper Government announces major new investments in Waterton Lakes National Park

    Harper Government announces major new investments in Waterton Lakes National Park

      Waterton Lakes, AB – John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, announced infrastructure investments totalling more than $107 million in several Parks Canada projects across Waterton Lakes National Park. This major investment includes rehabilitation work along the…