Tag: Southern Alberta

  • More Than a Breath Mint!

    More Than a Breath Mint!

      Calgary – Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is practical and realistic training, which strengthens community safety and preparedness, through increased civic participation. Community residents who become CERT certified are equipped and ready to react not only with heart but with their head. Having basic emergency knowledge and practical training provides a safer response for…

  • Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day: The Responsibility to Remember

    Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day: The Responsibility to Remember

    TORONTO, April 15, 2015 /CNW/ – On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, 70 years after the last Nazi death camp was liberated, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation is mindful that the entreaty of “Never Again” takes on a new urgency. The extent of that tragedy and its reverberations across the decades are still difficult to…

  • Letter To The Editor From The Hon. Jim Prentice

    Letter To The Editor From The Hon. Jim Prentice

    To the editor: As Albertans, we care deeply about our natural world and we feel a connection to the land and our environment. I’ve never met a farmer or a rancher who isn’t a conservationist. Yet, we are also an oil and gas producing province. Landowners sometimes face situations where their rights come into conflict…

  • Build Schools, Protect our Teachers and Reduce Class Sizes

    Build Schools, Protect our Teachers and Reduce Class Sizes

    The PCs made your kids’ education too dependent on the price of oil Now they want to raise your taxes while they cut your kids’ education. Their new budget provides no funding for the 12,000-19,000 new students that are expected to enroll in public education. In fact, it does not provide funding for any of…

  • Pro Playoff Hockey Back in Alberta, ATB Place Lights Up!

    Pro Playoff Hockey Back in Alberta, ATB Place Lights Up!

    Calgary (and Edmonton) — For the first time in six years, there is pro playoff hockey in Alberta, and ATB Financial is helping tell the storey on the Edmonton skyline. Yes, the Edmonton skyline. “Congratulations to Calgary, to their captain, Mark Giordano and to the players and management and fans in Calgary,” says Dave Mowat, ATB Financial…

  • RCMP High River – Person Reported Missing

    High River, Alberta – On April 8th, 2015 High River RCMP were advised that Sheena EMPRINGHAM had not been heard from after leaving the High River hospital at approximately 11:00 PM on April 7th, 2015.  Hospital staff advised that EMPRINGHAM had contacted an unknown person to pick her up from the hospital, but it was…

  • Road closure Highway 22

    RCMP Cochrane, advising that highway 22 is closed north of highway 1 for both directions of traffic. Highway 1 is open with one lane through the collision scene – east and west. Westbound traffic is slowed down due to one lane.

  • Reality Check: Wildrose the Only Party that Will Protect Property Rights

    Reality Check: Wildrose the Only Party that Will Protect Property Rights

      EDMONTON, AB – Promising more reviews and reports is not real action on property rights. The Prentice PCs had the past six months to review Bill 36.  To date? Nothing. In fact, Prentice missed two Legislative sessions to introduce new legislation. The Prentice PCs had the power to immediately address the Lemke decision weeks…

  • Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards: MP John Barlow Encourages Nominations

      High River, AB – John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, is reminding community members that the call for nominations for the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards was recently announced by the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada, on behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada. The…

  • Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

    Alberta Slashing the Tax Credit for Charitable Giving

      If the budget put forward by Jim Prentice and the PC party becomes law, Alberta will be the first province in Canada to put a heavier tax burden on charitable giving. Budget 2015 slashes the tax credit for Albertans who give to charity by 39 per cent, from 21 per cent to 12.75 per…

  • Alberta Liberals: Solutions to Protect and Support Our Most Vulnerable

    Alberta Liberals: Solutions to Protect and Support Our Most Vulnerable

    CALGARY, AB – (Friday) Liberal Leader David Swann announced Alberta Liberals will propose two initiatives to provide solutions for our most vulnerable citizens: increase funding to Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) and reinstate Premier Ed Stelmach’s Charitable Donation Tax Credit (CDTC). “Every person deserves a roof over their head,” said Swann. “When government, community…

  • RCMP charge Lethbridge man with possession of child pornography

      Lethbridge, Alberta – With the assistance of RCMP Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) and Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) investigators have arrested and charged Daniel McNeill on March 27, 2015, with possession of child pornography, mailing obscene matter and smuggling prohibited good. The 31-year-old man from Lethbridge, Alberta, was released to appear in…

  • PCs completely out of touch with flood victims: Alberta Party

    PCs completely out of touch with flood victims: Alberta Party

    Windsor calls remarks by PC Candidate “plainly irresponsible”. HIGH RIVER, AB – Alberta Party Candidate Joel Windsor says he is baffled by comments made by PC Candidate Carrie Fischer suggesting the flood is not an issue in the constituency. “I’m not hearing the flood factoring into the election at all,” said Fischer during an interview…

  • Wildrose Calls in Auditor General to Investigate if PCs Hiding Gov’t Contracts

    Wildrose Calls in Auditor General to Investigate if PCs Hiding Gov’t Contracts

    EDMONTON, AB – The Wildrose is calling on the Auditor General to investigate whether the legally required  government disclosure of contracts (the Blue Book) is accurate. Multiple freedom of information requests confirm Enzo Development Inc. was hired for a $21 million sole-source contract during the 2013 floods to deliver modular classrooms to High River and…

  • Alberta Liberals on the Campaign Trail

    Alberta Liberals on the Campaign Trail