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Peace Region First Nation first to get a grant from provincial pro-energy business fund
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is warning the province's $1-billion fund established last year to support Indigenous participation in major projects won't have any projects to back if the forc...
Feb 26, 2020 Photo by The Canadian Press
County recruiting paid responders for La Glace
The County of Grande Prairie is opening up applications for paid responders to serve at the County's La Glace firehall. Professional firefighting training is free, and the County is looking for traine...
Feb 26, 2020 Courtesy of the County of Grande Prairie
Judge to rule on giving the province more time on a decision for the Rigel oilsands project
An Alberta judge is to rule this afternoon on whether to grant a stay of an order that requires the Alberta government to make an immediate decision on a proposed oilsands project near Fort McMurray.L...
Feb 26, 2020
OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed
VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...
Feb 26, 2020
Kenney says feds sank Teck mine with deadline change, but Ottawa says 'not true'
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it was a new, last-minute delay by Ottawa on whether to approve the Frontier oilsands mine that led Teck Resources Ltd. to pull the plu...
Feb 26, 2020
Golden Arrow Storm complete third period comeback against Oil Kings, look to advance Wednesday night
Bantam AAA Leduc Oil Kings @ Bantam AAA Golden Arrow StormThe Golden Arrow Storm are one win away from advancing to the next round, after they defeated the Leduc Oil Kings 6-5 Tuesday at the Crosslink...
Feb 26, 2020 GPAC Bantam AAA Golden Arrow Storm forward Carter Hensch. Photo Credit: Shane Clausing
Government urged to increase diversity at top of federal public service
OTTAWA - The federal government faced calls Monday to add more diversity to the senior ranks of the public service, as black civil servants gathered in the national capital to share their experiences ...
Feb 26, 2020
Halifax council studies quiet fireworks displays to avoid alarming veterans
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia city councillor is pushing for quiet fireworks in Halifax out of concern the noise is alarming veterans and people on the autism spectrum. However some in the pyrotec...
Feb 26, 2020
Canada names provisional Olympic soccer qualifying roster but no Davies, David
Alphonso Davies had a coming-out party Tuesday in Bayern Munich's Champions League win over Chelsea. Jonathan David scored a hat trick for KAA Gent on the weekend and leads the Belgium League in ...
Feb 26, 2020
Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till
WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced b...
Feb 26, 2020