Monday February 26, 2024
- Investigations are continuing into an accident at the Fas Gas in Downtown Peace River over the weekend.
RCMP attended the scene where a vehicle allegedly drove into the north side wall of the business. - The Holy Family Catholic Regional Division has formally suspended Brock Whalen.
McLennan RCMP arrested Whalen earlier this month after reports of sexual offences against a youth. - Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse, a first-term member representing Edmonton-Rutherford, made her leadership bid for the Provincial NDP party,official on the weekend.
Calahoo-Stonehouse, joins Edmonton’s Sarah Hoffman, Rakhi Pancholi, and Calgary’s Kathleen Ganley in the race. - The Alberta government is making changes to grant funding given to daycares to help them weather the transition to a $10-a-day child-care system.
Instead of getting money 5-10 days after the end of a month, operators will start receiving 80% of what they are owed at the beginning of March, with the rest coming later. - Alberta MLA’s return to the legislature this week for a spring sitting, expected to see the first steps on sweeping structural reforms to health-care.
The sitting begins Wednesday, followed Thursday by the release of the 2024 budget, which Premier Danielle Smith has signalled will not keep pace with Alberta’s growth. - A 46-year-old man from Magrath, died in an avalanche in the back country between Carbondale and Castle Mountain Ski Resort in the Rocky Mountains Saturday.
Authorities recovered the body Sunday afternoon. - St. Isidore’s Nadia Lavoie is having success in her first season playing hockey at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
As for what she’s taking in school, Lavoie says she’s majoring in criminology. (Interview on App) - The Senior Boys Curling team from Paul Rowe Jr./Sr. High School is now back home, after falling just short at provincials in Drayton Valley.
The boys settled for silver after losing 5-3 to Archbishop Jordan Catholic High School in Sherwood Park. The team went 4-0 in the round robin and beat Didsbury in the semis, before losing the title game. - Four games in the NHL tonight…
LA’s in Edmonton, Ottawa is in Washington, Boston is in Seattle, and the Islanders are in Dallas. - Winter has descended onto Northwestern Alberta for this week. Highs today will be at or near -20, with lows tonight being between -25 and -30.
Add Wind Chills to that and you have an Extreme Cold Warning in effect in the Mackenzie. Sunshine and flurries are possibilities in all areas.
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