Arts & Culture

Canada’s Pink Floyd coming to St. Albert

PIGS are starting 2018 with the second leg of a 12 week, 45-date tour that started out at the end of September at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo and took the band across Canada as far as Sydney, Nova Scotia. The second leg of the ‘LEFT + RIGHT Canada Tour’ features dates in Saskatchewan, BC, and Alberta and will take them to more than 15 cities halfway across Canada and back. PIGS will be making its debut performance in St. Albert on Tuesday, February 20 at the Arden Theatre. […]

Food & Health

Food for Thought: Healthy dinner in a flash

(NC) Getting a healthy dinner on the table doesn’t have to be intimidating or time-consuming. Here, Tori Wesszer, registered dietitian and blogger at Fraiche Nutrition, shares one of her go-to meals that’s sure to become a weeknight favourite. […]

Local Sports

Jets hit quarter-finals this weekend

After taking the qualifying round of CJHL playoffs in two straight against the Edmonton Mustangs, the Morinville Jets will get little time to rest before hitting quarter-finals this weekend against the North Edmonton Red Wings. […]

Province

Opposition renewing calls for Trans Mountain Pipeline emergency session

Official Opposition Leader Jason Kenney renewed his call Monday for an emergency session of the Legislature to allow MLAs to debate how best to defend Alberta’s economic interests after the Government of British Columbia threats to block the export of Alberta oil through the Trans Mountain Pipeline. […]

Business

CFIB calls on feds for tax fairness

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) are citing skyrocketing labour costs are leaving young workers in the lurch, and are calling on the federal government to provide small businesses with tax fairness, innovation and training support in the 2018 federal budget to address it. […]

Columns

National Column: Stock market rumbles signal unsound economy

The stock markets are unsettled. But so far there has been no crash. Life goes on.

Still, market gyrations serve as a reminder. Even though the world economy is in better shape than it was a few years ago, it remains structurally unsound. […]

Columns

National Column: PC’s shifting winds buffet energy goals

For the first time since Justin Trudeau’s government set out to put a national floor price on carbon emissions, there is a real possibility the government could have to implement its climate change policy without the co-operation of Ontario. […]

Arts & Culture

Cultural Centre hoping Dufflebag Theatre is the slipper that fits

For more than a quarter-century, the “nearly world-famous” Dufflebag Theatre has travelled the country and the globe offering creative spins on classic stories and fairy tales.

The group returns to town Friday, Mar. 2 to present Cinderella, the classic story of a young woman living a sad life with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
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Local Sports

Kings well on the way to Round Two victory

After taking down the Westlock Warriors in four games, the Morinville Senior AA Kings entered round two playoffs over the weekend against Daysland and emerged with back-to-back wins.
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Arts & Culture

Morinville Online: Poet Christopher Raine [VIDEO]

The Morinville Community Library hosted the launch of Vacant Morality: Poems of the Past by Christopher Raine Saturday afternoon. The event included a live reading and book signing with the author. […]