Tag: Good News

  • CBC: Okotoks Singer Samm Smith will be the only Canadian to Appear on The Voice this Season

    CBC: Okotoks Singer Samm Smith will be the only Canadian to Appear on The Voice this Season

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  • Alberta Health Increases Access to Kits that Reverse Fentanyl Overdoses

    Alberta Health Increases Access to Kits that Reverse Fentanyl Overdoses

      Pharmacies across the province are now providing take-home naloxone kits free-of-charge to Albertans with a prescription. “This is just one of the steps our government is taking to address the devastating impact fentanyl is having in our province. The highly toxic drug is being used by people from many different age groups and from…

  • Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Slovenian folklore speaks of baby dragons flushed from parents’ subterranean lairs. Today, we know these rare creatures as the olm, and one of them has laid eggs. In the subterranean caves of central and southeastern Europe dwells a rare and unusual aquatic salamander species known as the olm. Its females lay their eggs just once…

  • Karelian Bear Dogs Help Keep People and Bears Safe

    Karelian Bear Dogs Help Keep People and Bears Safe

    Alberta’s dog program barking up the right tree A dog is man’s best friend, goes the old saying. That familiar phrase rings true for those Albertans who know about Justice and Solicitor General’s Karelian Bear Dog program.  The dogs use shepherding techniques to teach bears to recognize and avoid inhabited areas, helping to keep Alberta’s…

  • Fuelling Women Champions

    Fuelling Women Champions

    Across Canada, women and girls from all walks of life, at all skill levels, enthusiastically reach for their goals through sport. Sports play a vital role in a healthy lifestyle; yet, Canada’s dairy farmers discovered that all too often, women’s sports are overshadowed by media coverage and funding of men’s sports. So dairy farmers from…

  • 5 Ways to Ensure a Healthier Heart

    5 Ways to Ensure a Healthier Heart

    Heart failure is a growing epidemic in Canada, according to a new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. This debilitating condition, which has no cure, is the end result of most heart disease. About 50,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed in Canada each year. Because heart failure results from the damage caused…

  • Keeping People and Pets Together

    Keeping People and Pets Together

    Pre-veterinary students volunteer time and knowledge to help vulnerable people care for their animal companions. By Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta Ring the doorbell at Jill’s home and a happy, barking chorus erupts as her three toy poodles say hello. Nicolas, Isabella and Kopper waggle their bottoms and offer wet-nosed kisses to any willing guest,…

  • Red Letter Campaign Launched to Shut Down Puppy Mills across Canada

    Red Letter Campaign Launched to Shut Down Puppy Mills across Canada

    Ruby’s Love Letter campaign named after rescued survivor February, 2016 BEWDLEY, ON–(February 7th) marked the kick-off a national Valentine`s Day pressure campaign to bring a close to the grim and disgusting reality of puppy mills in Canada forever. MPs, MPPs and MLAs will soon find their offices filled with red envelopes containing letters mailed from concerned…

  • High River Community Cancer Centre Expansion

    High River Community Cancer Centre Expansion

    Story by Kerri Robins; Photo by Lisa Sutherland When 63-year-old high school teacher Scott Forbes learned he had incurable stage four colon cancer in April 2011, he buckled down with a ‘can do’ attitude and faced his impending treatment full on. “It’s really just the power of positive thinking to get through this,” says Forbes.…

  • UFile Redesign Offers Virtual Accountant Experience

    UFile Redesign Offers Virtual Accountant Experience

    -Tax Software Leader Looks to Artificial Intelligence to Roll Out Highly Personalized Filing Tool- MONTRÉAL, February, 2016 /CNW/ – Canadian tax software leader UFile announced (last week) a complete redesign of their popular online and desktop software for tax year 2015. The new program, compatible across all platforms and browsers, features a bold design aesthetic and graphic…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Unique Ideas

      By Reena Nerbas Magnetic Cat Hair Dear Reena, I own two very furry cats. I always put the toilet seat down when the toilet is not in use but when I lift up the seat it is covered with fur. Seems like fur is attracted to the seat, any tips for how to stop…

  • Nominations Open for Alberta’s Highest Honour

    Nominations Open for Alberta’s Highest Honour

    Albertans are invited to nominate outstanding citizens, community leaders and innovators for membership in the Alberta Order of Excellence. Up to 10 people will be inducted into the Order this year to recognize their remarkable contributions to their community, the province and the nation. Members of the Order come from all walks of life. They…

  • Nenshi challenges the nation to celebrate poetry with Mayor’s Poetry City Challenge

    Nenshi challenges the nation to celebrate poetry with Mayor’s Poetry City Challenge

    Last week, letters were sent to Mayors across Canada from Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi issuing the challenge: to have a local poet read a poem at the start of a Council meeting in March or April. The aim is to raise awareness and to celebrate poetry, writing, small presses and the contribution of poets and all…

  • Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    TORONTO /CNW/ – Amateur archaeologist Raymond Julien finds an Egyptian-style pyramid sticking out of the ocean. The island pyramid is covered in tropical trees and lava. The trees covering the island reveal the shape of something hidden underneath, resembling the outline of a pyramid with 40 degree angles on each side. Having visited the island last March,…

  • Hurry, Hurry Hard!

    Hurry, Hurry Hard!

      The Town of Okotoks, along with the Okotoks Curling Club, is hosting Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling 2016 Masters and early bird ticket vouchers are now on sale!  Tickets are available for purchase HERE and by calling 1-844-438-7352. The 2016 Masters is the second major event of the 2016/17 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling season,…