Author Archives: Curtis Galbraith

Stitch Club of Grande Prairie makes record amount of items, but in desperate need of donations
Fifty-five members of the Stitch Club of Grande Prairie took around 28,000 hours of their own time to knit, crochet, and sew 6,591 items in a year's time to donate across the region. It's the largest ...
Sep 20, 2023

City Council meeting highlights
Grande Prairie City Council held its regular meeting Monday afternoon. - Council gave a round of applause to Tenille Townes after Mayor Jackie Clayton told those gathered that the Grande Prairie-raise...
Sep 19, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Pastor gets 60-day sentence for role in Alberta border blockade
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski has been sentenced to 60 days jail for his role in protests against COVID-19 public health measures that blocked Alberta's main Canada-U.S. border cr...
Sep 18, 2023

E. coli outbreak spotlights daycare food safety, experts say
TORONTO - Experts say an outbreak of E. coli that's sickened hundreds has shone a much-needed spotlight on food safety at daycares. There have been 337 lab-confirmed cases of the bacterial infection i...
Sep 15, 2023

UPDATE: Decision reserved as Federal Court hears arguments on deportation of truck driver in Broncos crash
UPDATE: A federal judge has reserved his decision in the deportation case of the truck driver who caused the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton says due to the gravi...
Sep 13, 2023

Two more closures for emergency department in Beaverlodge coming this week
Alberta Health Services says two more closures are planned for this week for the emergency department at the Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital. AHS says in a release that an inability to find physician c...
Sep 11, 2023

Medal for local swimmer at international competition
A Grande Prairie Piranhas swimmer is coming home from the World Junior Swimming Championships in Israel with a medal. Jordan Greber was part of Canada's silver medal-winning team in the 4 x 100 metre ...
Sep 11, 2023

UPDATE: Range Road 55 at Highway 43 open again after crash
UPDATE 2: Grande Prairie RCMP say all roads are open again. UPDATE: RCMP now say that Highway 43 is clear. Range Road 55 is still impassable between Highway 43 and 156 Avenue as a clean-up of h...
Sep 08, 2023

Alberta leads employment growth in Canada in August
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta its touting the latest jobs report from Statistics Canada. Released on Friday, September 8, 2023, the agency said the national unemployment rate was flat at ...
Sep 08, 2023

New questions for wind, solar in Alberta create more confusion for industry: advocate
EDMONTON - A renewable energy group says new requirements for wind and solar projects create further problems for a booming industry that government policy has already slowed. On Wednesday, the Albert...
Sep 07, 2023