Arts & Culture
The Week in Photos
Cards and quilting were a couple of the activities at the Rendez-Vous last week. – Lucie Roy Photos Students from […]
Month: January 2018
Province
Province to review disability program in Alberta
The government is looking to improve services for Albertans with developmental disabilities through a review of the Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) program.
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Province
Alberta firefighters receive new cancer supports from province
The Government of Alberta says it is making sure firefighters who contract ovarian and cervical cancer will receive workers’ compensation benefits and supports. The minimum exposure period will be 10 years for these cancers. Government is also reducing the minimum exposure period from 20 to 10 years for compensation for testicular cancer. […]
Local Sports
MCHS Alumni basketball tradition teaches importance of camaraderie
The sounds of basketballs shoes squeaking on hardwood mixed with cheers and laughter Saturday evening as the Morinville Community High School Sr. Girls basketball team squared off against 19 former students for a friendly game on familiar grounds. […]
Business
National Column: National Column: The terrible part of NAFTA that Canada wants to keep – for now
Canada is going all-out to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. The ruling Liberal government has even enlisted the help of the opposition Conservatives in this crusade.
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Business
Province says liquor sector creating jobs and diversifying economy
The Government of Alberta says reducing markup and creating grant programs is helping businesses grow and thrive in the province’s liquor industry.
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Arts & Culture
Coming up around town
The next month has a number of activities coming up in and around Morinville. Here is a list of what […]
Business
Stolen equipment found, allowing church move to proceed
There was a happy ending Thursday to a Tuesday night overnight theft.
Equipment to be used to move a gifted church from St. Albert to Sturgeon County, west of Morinville was recovered Thursday by police. […]
Local Sports
Kings enter playoffs this weekend
The Morinville Senior AA Kings enter North Central Hockey League playoffs this weekend with back-to-back home games. […]
Province
Government says new security licensing process eliminates delays
The Government of Alberta says it is speeding up the licensing process for about 25,000 Albertans working as security guards, private investigators, locksmiths and other security-related occupations, including loss prevention, security alarm responder, executive protection, patrol dog handler, private investigator, and automotive lock bypass workers. […]
Columns
The Soaring Pig: Making Pizza Dough
Whether it is during the week or weekends, pizza is an excellent meal choice that is quick and easy and worth the time invested. […]
Columns
National Column: Is Parti Quebecois close to running on empty?
With only months to go to a fall Quebec election, some of the Parti Quebecois’ best and brightest are rushing for the exit. […]
Business
CFIB hands out their red tape awards ahead of red tape awareness week
Food truck bureaucracy and notices about notices topped the list of over-the-top regulations for 2018. Ahead of their annual Red Tape Awareness Week, running January 22 to 26, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) presented its annual Paperweight Awards, recognizing government departments and agencies responsible for extraordinary examples of excessive regulations the business group says hurts small businesses. […]
Arts & Culture
Our Community: The Morinville Rendez-Vous Centre
On Wednesday the Rendez-Vous Centre was busy with a group learning Bridge and the Scrap Happy Quilters working away in the hall. But those activities are but two of the programs offered locally at the centre. […]
Local Sports
4 the Love of the Game Novice tournament on this weekend
Twenty-nine years after Novice hockey player Dennis Blair Borduzak passed away, his memory is kept alive through a memorial tournament now in its 21tst year. The annual 4 the Love of the Game Tournament skates off in Morinville and Legal Thursday afternoon, bringing together 18 teams for a full weekend of hockey action. […]
Food & Health
Government not doing enough on tobacco reduction, coalition says
The Campaign for a Smoke-Free Alberta, a coalition of health organizations, gave Alberta government a C-minus for its overall effort to reduce tobacco use in an annual report card Wednesday, the second consecutive year the province has received the failing grade. […]