Music
New leader of Toronto-based opera company from the Peace
Editors Note: Royce was born in Grande Prairie and raised near Sexsmith.TORONTO - The experimental Toronto-based opera company Against the Grain Theatre has recruited award-winning librettist Royce Vavrek as its new artistic director. The Alberta-born, Brooklyn-based Vavrek is taking the reins from founding artistic di...
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City Hall
Trail closures for fire prevention work to start Tuesday in South Bear Creek area
Trail closures in the South Bear Creek area start this week as the city starts some wildfire prevention work. Part of Outer Waxwing Trail will be closed as of today (Tuesday, October 15) as fire prevention work continues to the north of the Aquatera Water Treatment plant, a project that started last year. Some trails i...
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Peace Region
Curling
Bottcher joins Team Gushue
There are now two Albertans on Brad Gushue's curling team. Brendan Bottcher has joined Beaverlodge's Geoff Walker on the Brier champions.Bottcher will replace EJ Harnden at second.Harden and the team recently went their separate ways.Bottcher is also a former Brier champ, winning in 2021. In a new release, Bottcher cal...
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Music
New leader of Toronto-based opera company from the Peace
Editors Note: Royce was born in Grande Prairie and raised near Sexsmith.TORONTO - The experimental Toronto-based opera company Against the Grain Theatre has recruited award-winning librettist Royce Vavrek as its new artistic director. The Alberta-born, Brooklyn-based Vavrek is taking the reins from founding artistic di...
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Dutch Elm Disease
City crews begin elm tree pruning
The City of Grande Prairie's annual fall and winter elm tree pruning is underway in the community.City crews will be out pruning elm trees in the College Park, Country Club Estates, Highland Park, Pinnacle Ridge, Lakeland, and VLA (Veteran's Land Act) neighbourhoods to reduce the risks of Dutch Elm Disease.In the relea...
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Peace River
Mercer pulp mill fined $1M for violating federal act
On October 11, 2024, Mercer Peace River Pulp Ltd. was ordered to pay a $1 million fine for dumping over 30 million litres of wasterwater into the Peace River back in 2021. The company pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Fisheries Act back on September 4, 2024 for the incident. An investigation done by Environm...
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City Hall
Trail closures for fire prevention work to start Tuesday in South Bear Creek area
Trail closures in the South Bear Creek area start this week as the city starts some wildfire prevention work. Part of Outer Waxwing Trail will be closed as of today (Tuesday, October 15) as fire prevention work continues to the north of the Aquatera Water Treatment plant, a project that started last year. Some trails i...
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RCMP
Slave Lake RCMP on scene of a serious collision
Update - Slave Lake RCMP say preliminary findings show a Chevrolet Suburban towing a dual axel flat deck trailer entered the east bound lane of oncoming traffic and a head-on collision occurred with a Semi Truck hauling a loaded trailer. As a result of this collision the driver and lone occupant of the suburban was dec...
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Local Sports
Curling
Bottcher joins Team Gushue
There are now two Albertans on Brad Gushue's curling team. Brendan Bottcher has joined Beaverlodge's Geoff Walker on the Brier champions.Bottcher will replace EJ Harnden at second.Harden and the team recently went their separate ways.Bottcher is also a former Brier champ, winning in 2021. In a new release, Bottcher cal...
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Storm
Storm sweep weekend home games
The Grande Prairie Storm beat the visiting Calgary Canucks in two games this weekend, sweeping the same team that eliminated them from last year's AJHL playoffs. Grande Prairie doubled the Canucks 6-3 Sunday afternoon at the Bonnetts Energy Centre.The Storm took a 3-0 lead after the first period. Brandon de Haas had tw...
Oct 13, 2024
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Community Event
GPPA 16th annual hockey tournament open for registration
Registration is now open for the Grande Prairie Petroleum Association's annual hockey tournament. This year's tournament will kick off on Wednesday, October 23, with a draft night at the Lion's Den Pub.According to the association "limited spots are available." Registration costs $250 per person.Games will be...
Oct 13, 2024
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Agriculture
Agriculture
APG seeking advisors in all zones to grow pulse industry
The Alberta Pulse Growers (APG) are inviting pulse producers who want to grow the province's industry while developing leadership skills to apply to be an advisor during zone meetings this fall.A team of advisors leads extension activities specific to each of APG's five zones.Available positions and fall meeting dates ...
Oct 10, 2024
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Agriculture
Peace region harvest three-quarters finished
The October 1 crop report from AFSC says 75.4 per cent of the crop in the Peace had been harvested by that date.That is up from the 67.1 per cent completion reported the week before, even though a lot of places in the Peace had rain during that week.The five-year average for October 1 is 58.7 per cent and the 10-year a...
Oct 09, 2024
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Agriculture
Agritourism training session set for Tuesday at Evergreen Park
The Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association, Travel Alberta and Alberta Open Farm Days are hosting an agritourism training session Tuesday.The session will from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Evergreen Park.An email from the tourism association says this is for farmers, tourism operators and others looking to expand their bu...
Oct 06, 2024
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Alberta
Alberta
Ministry of Health shares results of public engagement on health care refocusing
Alberta's health care system is in the midst of a restructuring journey, and as a part of that process, the Alberta government conducted public engagement activities, the results of which are now available online in a What We Heard Report.In an effort to understand what Albertans think about refocusing health care, fro...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta government proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar energy
The Alberta government is proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar farms that conservationists think are more about limiting renewable energy than protecting the environment.Last year the Alberta government imposed a seven-month moratorium on new renewable energy projects, after which Premier Danielle Smith ...
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Alberta government launches $7M ad campaign against incoming federal emissions cap
Alberta's government has launched a national ad campaign targeting the federal government's incoming emissions cap for the oil and gas sector.Premier Danielle Smith says it's a de facto production cap that would kill jobs and stifle the economy.The province's $7-million "Scrap the Cap" campaign also says the ...
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Alberta reveals new primary care agency that will launch in the fall
The province's health care system restructuring continued on Tuesday as Health Minister Adriana LaGrange revealed Primary Care Alberta, an agency charged with ensuring all Albertans are supported in their day-to-day health needs.The new organization will launch later this fall, officials said. It's the second of four n...
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Canada
Trudeau appoints Daniel Rogers new head of Canada's spy agency
OTTAWA - A veteran of Canada's national security systems has been named the new head of the national spy agency. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Daniel Rogers as the new director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He will take over the role on Oct. 28. Rogers replaces David Vigneault, who retire...
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Bilingual Quebec communities lose bid to suspend application of language law rules
MONTREAL - Bilingual Quebec municipalities have lost their bid to have several parts of the government's French-language reform suspended while their case makes its way through the courts. The communities asked the Quebec Superior Court last month to suspend the application of parts of Bill 96 - as the language reform ...
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Founders of Vancouver club that sold tested illicit drugs file Charter challenge
VANCOUVER - The founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine bought on the dark web and tested for contaminants, have filed a court challenge arguing their Charter rights and the rights of users were violated when the club was shut and they were arrested. Eris Nyx an...
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Quebec government imposes measures to address 'toxic climate' at Montreal school
MONTREAL - Corrective measures are underway to address a "toxic climate" of fear and intimidation at a French-language Montreal primary school. Quebec's Education Department has appointed two monitors who started working today at Bedford school in the city's multicultural Côte-des-Neiges district, who h...
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Canada and U.S. list Samidoun as terrorist group, U.S. adds Canadian to terror list
OTTAWA - Canada is listing the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun as a terrorist group, while the U.S. has added a Canadian citizen affiliated with the organization to its counter-terrorism list. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Samidoun will now be listed under Criminal Code offences that ban people from donati...
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Listeria outbreak linked to plant-based milk seems to be over: PHAC
The Public Health Agency of Canada says a Listeria outbreak linked to several plant-based milks appears to be over with no additional cases reported since August. The federal agency says its investigation is now complete and Listeria was found within the production environment of Silk and Great Value plant-based refrig...
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World
Idaho revamps execution chamber so docs can access deep veins after failed lethal injection attempt
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho will begin using central veins deep in the groin, neck, chest or arm to execute prisoners by lethal injection if attempts to insert standard IV lines fail, the Idaho Department of Correction announced Tuesday. Injecting a central venous line has long been a backup plan under the state's offici...
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Breanna Stewart and her wife Marta Xargay receive homophobic threats after Game 1 of WNBA Finals
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart and her wife Marta Xargay received threatening homophobic anonymous emails after Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. The emails went directly to Xargay's account, which was a bit unnerving for the couple, Stewart said at practice on Tuesday. "The fact it came to Mart...
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US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterpart...
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