Alberta News
Investments from the private sector, coupled with $40 million in loan guarantee support from the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC), and a partnership with Suncor Energy will allow eight Indigenous communities from northeastern Alberta to share in $16 million in annual revenue from the Northern Courier Pipeline System. In 2019, Suncor obtained the rights to TC Energy’s 15 per cent of…
By Jennifer Henderson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On Sunday Aug. 29, young Alberta entrepreneurs served up cool glasses of lemonade for a good cause, raising funds for the Stollery Children’s Hospital. For Kisti-Lee German and her family, the day was personal. After spending months in this hospital with her micro-preemie, German found out about Lemonade Stand Day and knew she had to…
By Scott McLean, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is hosting Empty Bowls, its first in-person fundraiser, on Sunday after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled some of the organization’s fundraisers and pushed others online. The annual event will be held at the Fort McMurray Heritage Shipyard. The annual event serves food to people with custom bowls made by the Fort…
By Stu Salkeld, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Stettler County council declared an agricultural disaster in the municipality after hearing a stark, sobering report on regional farming conditions at their regular meeting Aug. 11. Director of Municipal Services Andrew Brysiuk submitted councillors a report from Quentin Beaumont, director of agricultural operations, that illustrated perfectly the summer of 2021: very hot and very dry…
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Indigenous people won’t be able to vote on reserve in the upcoming plebiscites and senate elections happening the same day as municipal elections on Oct. 18, Alberta Municipal Affairs has confirmed. Plebiscite questions include whether Alberta should adopt Daylight Savings Time for the entire year, and whether Albertans support removing Constitutionally-enshrined equalization payments…
Richard FroeseSouth Peace News People who drive off-highway vehicles and other vehicles in unsafe ways are again advised by Big Lakes County council to be responsible. At its regular meeting Aug. 11, council accepted suggestions from an Enilda resident at a previous meeting for information. “Council continues to prioritize public education and include traffic enforcement in our annual priority list to…
Pearl LorentzenLakeside Leader The Swan River First Nation council believes in “putting the Indian back into the child,” said SRFN chief Gerald Giroux at the mini powwow during SRFN’s culture camp. This is in response to a famous quote about the goal of Indian Residential Schools to ‘take the Indian out of the child.’ In the grand entry, at the mini…
Commentary byRichard Froese It seemed that the summer of 2021 was mostly back to normal and busier after events were cancelled in summer 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions. Just look at the July and August issues of the South Peace News and Lakeside Leader and readers quickly discover more events, even some new events. As COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta were dropped…
By John Watson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The first of what the Family Resource Network hopes to be many family paint nights was hosted in Kinsmen Park last week. Family and Youth Resource Network Specialist, Amrit Mathroo, said the event was organized as a joint venture with Strathmore Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) and with Trellis. The idea being that local…
Submitted ‘Jazz evangelist’ Tim Tamashiro performs in Slave Lake on Sept. 10. He was due to play here last year, but the whole Stage North concert series was shot, due to COVID. Stage North recently announced its revived line-up for 2021/22 at Slave Lake’s Legacy Centre, and Tamashiro gets it started. Tamashiro supports jazz artists throughout Canada and around the world,…
