Tag: Southern Alberta

  • Wildrose Won’t Stop Fighting Bill 6 Until Notley Starts Listening: Jean

      EDMONTON, AB: Wildrose Leader Brian Jean released the following statement after Premier Rachel Notley refused to shut down the NDP’s controversial Bill 6 and consult with farmers and ranchers about any future changes:  “From every corner of the province, farmers and ranchers have one clear message for the government: kill Bill 6.  “These are the…

  • Turner Valley School Legacy Playground: Get a Charitable Receipt for Your Donation

    Turner Valley School Legacy Playground: Get a Charitable Receipt for Your Donation

      If you don’t know about this project it is a student-led initiative to rebuild the playground at Turner Valley School to make it accessible to all children. Read more about it here. Watch the video; the kids did an awesome job! A Message from the PTA: The students have now raised over $19,000 for…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Stay Stress-Free this Holiday Season

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Stay Stress-Free this Holiday Season

      Stress piles up around the holidays. What should be a time of peace, joy, and giving can become a time of hurrying, rushing, and worrying. It’s important to find a way to balance holiday stress so you can enjoy the true pleasures of the season. Know your “enemy.” Identify what causes you stress and…

  • NDP Bill 8 Plays Same Old Broken Record of Failing to Consult: Wildrose

    NDP Bill 8 Plays Same Old Broken Record of Failing to Consult: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB: The NDP government appears incapable of properly consulting with Albertans before introducing legislation, and is repeating the same pattern as Bill 6 with legislation for teachers and school boards, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. Bill 8, The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, creates a new Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Association (TEBA) to…

  • Housing Market Conditions Favour Buyers

    Housing Market Conditions Favour Buyers

    Weak sales activity relative to inventory places downward pressure on prices   Click here to view the full monthly stats package. Calgary – Persistently high inventory levels within Calgary’s residential resale housing market, combined with weak sales activity, contributed to buyers’ conditions in November. Monthly sales totaled 1,263 units, a 28 per cent decline from…

  • Alberta and Air Liquide to promote new technology opportunities

    Alberta and Air Liquide to promote new technology opportunities

    Premier Rachel Notley signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Air Liquide that aims to bring new ideas and technologies to keeping Alberta’s environment clean, developing our energy responsibly and helping keep Albertans healthy. The Government of Alberta will work closely with the Air Liquide Group to identify and pursue mutual opportunities in areas such…

  • C. Ian McLaren School: Yoga Providing Benefits to Students

    C. Ian McLaren School: Yoga Providing Benefits to Students

    Utilizing a website called Namaste Kid: Yoga for Kids, students in teacher Emily Miklos’s Grade 3 class at C. Ian McLaren are incorporating yoga into their daily routines. Each student chooses a yoga pose and teaches the rest of the class, explaining how it benefits breathing and the body. Students practice the poses throughout the…

  • Wildrose Calls on Albertans to Rally Against Bill 6 Thursday at Noon

      EDMONTON, AB: At a time when the NDP government is wavering on its controversial Bill 6, Albertans need to rally together now to kill it, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. In a heated Bill 6 consultation Tuesday in Red Deer, Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier apologized for the government’s numerous mistakes in the handling…

  • NDP Carbon Plan Splitting Albertans, Industry and Comes with a Steep Price Tag

    NDP Carbon Plan Splitting Albertans, Industry and Comes with a Steep Price Tag

      EDMONTON, AB: Any claims the NDP government have made that there is broad consensus and approval of their massive new carbon tax and new regulations continue to be disproven by companies and individuals across the energy sector, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. A new report from the Financial Post details how several industry leaders…

  • Results in for World’s Largest Female Hockey Festival

    Results in for World’s Largest Female Hockey Festival

      Teams from Canada, USA, Czech Republic and Mexico all leave ‘Wickfest’ winners CALGARY /CNW/ – Last weekend 2,000 young women came together for the 6th annual Canadian Tire World Female Hockey Festival. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete and learn from the some of the most elite athletes, sports personalities and trainers in the world took…

  • Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice to conduct review

    Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice to conduct review

    The Government of Alberta is launching an external review of the 2013 investigation into allegations of conflict of interest involving former Premier Alison Redford. The 2013 Ethics Commissioner investigation was related to the decision to have the Tobacco Recovery Lawyers consortium represent the province in litigation against major tobacco companies. Over the course of the…

  • RCMP Cochrane Rural – RCMP Continue to Investigate Drive by Shootings

    RCMP Cochrane Rural – RCMP Continue to Investigate Drive by Shootings

    On November 29, 2015 Cochrane RCMP attended to a residence on the Stoney First Nation to a report of a shot being fired through a residence on the morning of November 28, 2015.   On November 30, 2015 when the employees of the Stoney Education Authority came to work they found that a high caliber round…

  • Renewable Energy will Power up to 30 per cent of Alberta’s Electricity Grid by 2030

    Renewable Energy will Power up to 30 per cent of Alberta’s Electricity Grid by 2030

      Alberta’s climate leadership plan will create jobs and spur billions in new investment. Minister of Energy Margaret McCuaig-Boyd and Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips were joined today by leaders from Alberta energy and electricity companies, as well as companies looking to invest in building Alberta’s future electricity system. These energy leaders expressed…

  • Calgary Police Service Seeking public assistance – missing person 

    Calgary Police Service Seeking public assistance – missing person 

      The Calgary Police Service is seeking public assistance in locating a missing woman. Penny FIRTH, 51, was last seen at her residence at approximately 12 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, in the 2400 block of 17 Ave S.W. Her family reported her missing and have not heard from her since. FIRTH is described…

  • Okotoks’ Holiday Helper Program Offers Assistance to Those in Need

    Okotoks’ Holiday Helper Program Offers Assistance to Those in Need

    Holiday Helpers is a donation-based program that provides assistance during the Christmas holidays to Okotoks residents in need. The program helps with basic needs – including utility bill payments, groceries, and transportation. *income guidelines apply. The application process has now ended but donations are still needed. Make a Donation Operated by the Okotoks Family Resource Centre, each year the Holiday Helper…