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Snow clearing operations to go in Clairmont on Tuesday
Starting Tuesday, County crews will be clearing ice and snow from roadways between 100 and 113 Avenue in Clairmont.Once that work is finished, crews will move on to the subdivisions of Whispering Ridg...
Mar 30, 2020 County crews clearing snow off the road (photo courtesy of the County of Grande Prairie)
Rotary Club of Grande Prairie launches food drive to support Food Bank
The Rotary Club of Grande Prairie is lending a hand to the Grande Prairie Food Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now three weeks since the pandemic effects were really felt in Canada, the Grande Prai...
Mar 30, 2020 The shelves at the Salvation Army food bank are in need of replenishing, as donations have decreased during the unfolding of the COVID-19 crisis (Photo Credit: Facebook / Salvation Army Grande Prairie Community and Family Services)
Oilsands producers in the red as blended bitumen price dips below $4 per barrel
CALGARY - Analysts say oilsands producers are likely losing money or barely breaking even as prices for Western Canadian Select bitumen-blend crude dipped as low as US$3.82 per barrel on Monday.Michae...
Mar 30, 2020
Two inmates, nine employees at Quebec prison test positive for COVID-19
OTTAWA - Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution. The Correctional Service of ...
Mar 30, 2020
Canadian military ready to mobilize 24,000 troops for COVID-19: defence minister
OTTAWA - The crews of two Royal Canadian Navy vessels were ordered to sequester in a Halifax hotel for two weeks as the federal government announced Monday that it is ready to mobilize up to 24,000 Ca...
Mar 30, 2020
Alberta heavyweight Tanner Boser waits for UFC to call again after COVID-19
His latest fight postponed because of the UFC's inability to find a place to stage it due to COVID-19, Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser is chilling in his condo with a couple of 40-pou...
Mar 30, 2020
Ferry operators call for inclusion in COVID-19 travel restrictions
OTTAWA - As new restrictions came into effect barring people with symptoms of COVID-19 from planes and trains, ferry operators called for the federal government to ban such travellers from their vesse...
Mar 30, 2020
Former CFL coach/GM Rita feeling sad for Italy's COVID-19 pandemic anguish
TORONTO - Adam Rita's heart aches over the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on Italy. Italy, which had over 97,000 confirmed cases of the disease with more than 10,000 fatalities as of S...
Mar 30, 2020
Trump defends extending virus guidelines as spread continues
WASHINGTON - Siding with public health experts' dire projections, President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to extend restrictive social distancing guidelines through the end of April, wh...
Mar 30, 2020
Large business, non-profits, charities eligible for wage subsidy, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says large and small businesses, non-profits and charities will all be eligible for a 75-per-cent subsidy on wages meant to cushion the blow from the COVID-19 pa...
Mar 30, 2020