SMILE SUNDAYS
Online platform new to Alberta provides healthcare patients industry-changing voice
Kimberley Sidhu received lifesaving care at Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, and has since experienced healing through the power of storytelling thanks to an online platform new to Alberta.Care Opinion is an independent platform that enables patients and caregivers to share their lived healthcare experiences. Sid...
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Wildfires
New wildfires in GPFA
UPDATED - As of 5:30 p.m. on April 20, a wildfire (GWF007) in the Grande Prairie Forest Area has been downgraded to under control. The fire is located south of Highway 49, about 35 km southwest of Spirit River.A fire broke out on the south side of the Dunvegan bridge (GWF005) on Friday, April 18. It is located west of ...
Apr 19, 2025
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Peace Region
Wildfires
New wildfires in GPFA
UPDATED - As of 5:30 p.m. on April 20, a wildfire (GWF007) in the Grande Prairie Forest Area has been downgraded to under control. The fire is located south of Highway 49, about 35 km southwest of Spirit River.A fire broke out on the south side of the Dunvegan bridge (GWF005) on Friday, April 18. It is located west of ...
Apr 19, 2025
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Missing person
Missing teen in Grande Prairie
The Grande Prairie RCMP are seeking public assistance in finding 17-year-old Dumkenechukwu Nwaigwe.He wsa last heard from on April 17, 2025. Mounties are concerned for Dumkenechukwu's wellbeing and would like to speak with him. He is described as:5'8" tallBlack hairBrown eyesDumkenechuckwu was last seen wearing a ...
Apr 19, 2025
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RCMP
Grande Prairie RCMP search for a suspect with a stolen credit card
Grande Prairie RCMP are trying to identify a suspect who allegedly used a credit card without the owner's permission. At the end of March, Mounties were made aware of this incident and noted two transactions totalling $336.67 made by the suspect, without the knowledge of the card owner. Pictures of the suspect were obt...
Apr 19, 2025
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"Applications now being accepted for Fall 2025"
NWP launches remote BEd program for Fort Vermillion students
Northwestern Polytechnic has partnered with the Fort Vermillion School Division to "bridge education opportunities in the north." A new deal between the two schools will now give the first remote cohort of Fort Vermillion students access to NWP's new four-year Bachelor of Elementary Education degree (BEd). NW...
Apr 19, 2025
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Missing Person
Missing woman in Grande Prairie
UPDATE on April 19, 2025 - Grande Prairie RCMP would like to inform the public that Amanda Nugent has been located safe.-------------------Mounties in Grande Prairie are asking for the public's assistance in locating 42-year-old Amanda Nugent. Nugent was last seen in Grande Prairie on March 10, 2025, and police are con...
Apr 18, 2025
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County of Grande Prairie
County of Grande Prairie Council approves final 2025 budget
County of Grande Prairie Council has approved the final budget for 2025.It calls for a 2.4 per cent municipal tax increase. The county says that works out to $57.85 a year or $4.82 a month for a residential property worth $575,000."This year's increase in the municipal portion of taxes will help ensure our program...
Apr 17, 2025
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Federal Election 2025
Liberal Party of Canada
Candidate Profile: Maureen McLeod (Liberal) - Grande Prairie
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of EverythingGP and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
Apr 17, 2025
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Federal Election
Business confidence, pipelines, housing among the topics covered in Chamber federal forum
All six federal election candidates in the Grande Prairie riding took part in an election forum hosted by the Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce on Zoom Tuesday night. All candidates went two or three at a time answering questions that had been submitted, before all candidates were asked to respond to qu...
Apr 16, 2025
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Rhinoceros Party
Candidate Profile: Donovan Eckstrom (Rhino) - Grande Prairie
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of EverythingGP and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
Apr 14, 2025
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Local Sports
Storm
AJHL final starts Good Friday with the Storm at the Canucks
The Grande Prairie Storm will be hunting for more than brightly coloured eggs and chocolate bunnies in Calgary on Easter weekend.The Alberta Junior Hockey League final starts on Good Friday in the Stampede City. Face-off time between the Storm and Calgary Canucks will be at 7 p.m.The Storm are 8-0 so far in the playoff...
Apr 18, 2025
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Local Sports
D3 Junior and High School Rodeo and Cowgirl Triathlon in Grande Prairie this weekend
Evergreen Park is hosting a plethora of rodeo events this Easter weekend. The Alberta High School Rodeo D3 Freedom Rodeo is happening Friday through Sunday for Junior High and High School contestants. There will be bareback riding, bareback steer, barrel racing, breakaway roping, tied down roping, ribbon roping, saddle...
Apr 17, 2025
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Local Sports
Player originally from Grande Prairie included in NHL Central Scouting rankings
NHL Central Scouting has released its final ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft and a player originally from Grande Prairie is included.Lukas Sawchyn in ranked 69th among North American skaters, up from 119th in the mid-term rankings.Sawchyn is a forward with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League.The Oil Kings...
Apr 17, 2025
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Clear Hills Agricultural Trade Show on this weekend
The 28th Clear Hills Agricultural Trade Show is set for Saturday.It will go from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Dave Shaw Memorial Complex in Hines Creek.Besides the trade show, there will be wagon rides, spring fair exhibits, an arts & crafts display and a kid's talent show.There will be a pancake breakfast to start t...
Apr 11, 2025
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Provincial Politics
Alberta's agriculture minister in Washington to discuss importance of free trade
Minister of Agriculture RJ Sigurdson will represent Alberta in Washington, D.C. on Monday to engage in important discussions on how agriculture is beneficial on both sides of the North American border. "I want every ag producer and processor in our province to know that we have your back and will continue to advoc...
Apr 07, 2025
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Northwestern Polytechnic
NWP's Bee Diagnostic Centre receives grant
Northwestern Polytechnic has received funding to advance research examining a parasite that targets honeybee colonies.NWP's National Bee Diagnostic Centre has received a $195,300 grant from non-profit Results Driven Agriculture Research to fund research into Varroa mite and the viruses it carries.Over the next two year...
Apr 03, 2025
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Alberta
the best protection
AHS encourages getting up-to-date on your shots for National Immunization Awareness Week
Alberta Health Services is encouraging residents to check up on their health records and get up-to-date during National Immunization Awareness Week, April 21-30.The message is even more important as the province is dealing with multiple outbreaks of measles.AHS says the best protection is immunization.The MMR-Var vacci...
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awwwww
RCMP share winners of Name the Puppies contest
The RCMP have announced the winners of its annual Name the puppies contest.The RCMP canine training facility is located in Innisfail, Alberta, just south of Red Deer.The contest, which ran in February and March, invited kids aged 4-14 to submit name suggestions for the first 13 puppies born at that facility in 2025.&qu...
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SPORTS
Provincial bowling tournament in Medicine Hat sees Edmonton move on to nationals
The Alberta 5 pin Open Championship Provincials took place at Panorama Lanes in Medicine Hat from April 16 to 19, with Edmonton receiving gold for all three of its teams.Edmonton's Men's, Ladies and Mixed teams will move on to the Canadian 5 Pin Bowling Association's national competition in Regina, Saskatchewan in May....
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SMILE SUNDAYS
Online platform new to Alberta provides healthcare patients industry-changing voice
Kimberley Sidhu received lifesaving care at Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, and has since experienced healing through the power of storytelling thanks to an online platform new to Alberta.Care Opinion is an independent platform that enables patients and caregivers to share their lived healthcare experiences. Sid...
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Canada
Pope Francis apologized for residential schools on historic Canadian visit
On a warm July day in 2022, thousands of dignitaries, Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors travelled from across Canada to powwow grounds in central Alberta. For some, the journey took days. For others, decades. They had all come to hear Pope Francis apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residentia...
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Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools
TORONTO - Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file. The Vatican says the pontiff died Monday at age 88. Francis was the global leader of Canada's m...
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In the news today: Advance polls open for final day before election
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Advance polls open for final day before election Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. Today is the...
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Advance polls open for last day as election campaign heads into final week
OTTAWA - Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. Today is the fourth and final day that advance polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. before the general election date of April 28. And unti...
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'Overwhelming': Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls
SASKATOON - The black concrete walls outside Saskatoon's only safe consumption site show the wake left by the city's drug crisis. The names of those who've died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman wh...
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Hockey fans conflicted over travelling to U.S. to see their teams in NHL playoffs
Jack Gurevitch is a Montreal Canadiens superfan and a proud Canadian who's upset by United States President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to annex Canada, but he says he won't let the political situation influence whether he travels to U.S. cities to support his team in the playoffs. Not everyone in his family agr...
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World
Canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, postponed after the death of Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sunday, on the occasion of the Jubilee celebration for adolescents. The canonization Mass was to be held at St. Peter's Squ...
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Pope Francis reached out to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, but also drew unusual opposition
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: Background Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969 and led the religious order in Argentina during the country'...
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'Who am I to judge?' Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he spoke as pope. Some of his memorable quotes: A simple, initial greeting "Brothers and sisters, good evening!" ...
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