Province
UCP select Interim Caucus
Interim United Conservative Party Leader Nathan Cooper announced the Interim Caucus Leadership Team that he says will guide the caucus over the next few months. […]
Month: July 2017
Province
Province investing in Indigenous language revitalization
The Alberta government is giving a $665,000 grant to the Canadian Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Institute to help enhance Indigenous language acquisition for Alberta students by ensuring instructors can acquire training and certification.
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Local News
Putnam third lawyer to be called to the bar in Morinville
A third lawyer has been called to the Bar of Alberta in Morinville.
Maxwell Putnam was called to the bar at the Morinville Provincial Courthouse July 20 in a ceremony that marked the start of his law career. Putnam, the nephew of Morinville lawyer Gord Putnam, has spent two summers articling at Putnam & Lawson. […]
Province
Alberta covering costs of medical abortion drug Mifegymiso
Alberta has followed New Brunswick to become the second province to cover the costs of the medical abortion drug, Mifegymiso.
Sarah Hoffman, Minister of Health, announced Monday that Mifegymiso is now available to all women in the province at no cost to them. […]
Columns
National Column: PM makes our nation proud at Prides
Last summer, Justin Trudeau made history when he became the first sitting prime minister to march in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal Pride parades (not all at once, of course).
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Province
Cooper selected as Interim Leader of United Conservatives
Following the past weekend’s unity vote for Alberta conservatives, members of the legacy Wildrose and Progressive Conservative caucuses held their first joint meeting as united conservatives Monday. During that meeting, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Nathan Cooper was selected as the new party’s interim leader.
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Columns
National Column: There is no ‘best’ when it comes to death
It’s not Brexit, really, that Brits are talking about down at the pub. It’s the baby.
Because the life of one very sick infant is a common denominator, a horror that can strike any family. More morally confounding, at least in the moment, than the great befuddlement of disentangling from Europe and how much that’s going to cost.
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Local News
Class of 1997 planning for 20-year High School reunion
When the Morinville Community High School Class of 1997 walked across the stage to accept their diplomas in June of that year, I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy was on the Billboard Top 100 charts, and Barbie Girl was something you either danced to or were annoyed by.
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Local News
Talk of the Town
Above: Legal held its annual Fete au Village festival over the weekend, complete with the little red train to start […]
Local News
Coming up this week around town
Below is a list of a few activities happening in Morinville between July 24 and 30. TUESDAY Morinville Music in […]
Arts & Culture
Legal volunteers hold another successful Fête au Village
Lucie Roy Photos Legal hosted another successful Fête au Village over the weekend, with the popular demolition derby occupying the […]
Columns
National Column: Vote on Muslim cemetery wasn’t truly secular
Not so, showed a bizarre democratic process that unfolded in a small Quebec town on Sunday night. A
referendum, ostensibly about zoning changes, ended up giving a handful of non-Muslims the power to tell Muslims how to bury their dead. […]
Province
Province inviting Albertans to have their say on new condominium rules
Albertans are invited to attend one of five open-house events to provide feedback on condo governance issues. The closest session is July 27 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Edmonton at the Lister Centre, University of Alberta.
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Local News
The Big Yes: Jerry Kaup running again
Sturgeon County Division 4 Councillor Jerry Kaup said, “The Big Yes” that he is running again.
His love for the County and its future and all of the people asking him to run again are some of the reasons he is throwing his hat back in for re-election as Division 4 Councillor. […]
Columns
National Column: What about royal transgressions?
Is there a statute of limitations on statues?
Do personalities of the past deserve amnesties after the fact, forgiving their transgressions while sanitizing their triumphs? Or must our founders be held to account, forcing their followers to admit that historical legacies are subject to latter day judgments? […]
Columns
National Column: Trudeau plays it safe with playlist
Justin Trudeau is having a rough summer. It turns out that a lot of Canadians aren’t thrilled about the federal government’s multimillion-dollar settlement payout to former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, arguably the only public face in the nation more handsome than the prime minister’s. (Say what you want about Khadr, but he’s got great bone structure.) […]