Local Sports
Province announces new roster for Alberta Sport Connection board
Stanley Cup Champion Andrew Ference has been selected to lead a new team for Alberta’s sport promotion and development agency.
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Month: February 2017
Morinville News
National Column: Influx and integration key
by Chantal Hebert The population of every province west of Ontario is growing at a faster rate than the national […]
Local News
Stop the texts, and you’ll stop the wrecks, government says
A week into Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the government is once again urging Albertans to stop texting behind the wheel.
The province offered research that indicates between 20 and 30 per cent of all collisions are due to distracted driving. The government also says distracted drivers are three times more likely to be involved in a collision than attentive drivers. […]
Local Sports
Morinville Jets finish record-breaking season first in the West
The Morinville Jets beat the visiting Edmonton Mustangs 9-6 Tuesday night to finish the Capital Junior Hockey League regular season in first place in the West Division with 58 points, the highest regular season tally in Jets history. […]
Business
Morinville barber retires after more than 50 years
After more than 50 years in the business, local barber Paul Henry Casavant is trading in his scissors and clippers for garden shears.
The 76-year-old Morinville man said Jan. 31 was his last shift at Paul’s Barber Shop located on 104 Street where he has owned and operated his home business since 1996. Casavant reflected that it is strange thinking it will be all over. He will miss everyone. A lot of these guys have grown up and grown old with him. […]
Columns
National Column: Liberals shore up their left flank
In the eternal balancing act of Canadian Liberalism, it’s a week for tilting left. One after another, cabinet ministers are lining up to resuscitate programs that please the Liberal base and that the Harper Conservatives fought tooth and nail. […]
Arts & Culture
Painting for the Sesquicentennial
Morinville residents gathered at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Monday and Tuesday to take part in the Canada 150 Mosaic mural, a national project celebrating Canada’s 150th Birthday.
Mural criteria required a landmark Morinville is well-known for, that is historical in nature, and still existing today. Artists for the project include Lead Artist Lewis Lavoie, Paul Lavoie, and, Phil Alain, all based out of St. Albert. […]
Local News
Province expands naloxone program
Alberta’s firefighters now have greater access to lifesaving naloxone kits now that all first responders can administer naloxone by injection.
The province said Tuesday fentanyl and other opioids continue to take a deadly toll in Alberta communities. There were 343 deaths in 2016 due to apparent fentanyl-related drug overdoses, a 33 per cent increase from the 257 deaths listed in 2015. […]
Province
Wildrose critical of carbon tax-funded grant program
Monday’s provincial announcement of $600,000 in grant funding for climate literacy programs did not sit well with the Wildrose, with the opposition party calling the spending “an offensive waste of Albertans’ money that will be used to further the government’s out-of-touch carbon tax agenda.”
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Arts & Culture
Lots to do in Morinville Family Day weekend
The Town of Morinville, local organizations and businesses are working towards a common goal next weekend – providing two days of activities over the Family Day weekend.
“Attending Morinville’s Snowman Festival is a great way to celebrate our Canadian winter,” said Kathleen Ducharme, Town of Morinville Culture & Events Programmer. “We hope families will venture outside and enjoy a variety of community activities, take some photos and make special memories.”
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Local News
Morinville Youth Basketball active with variety of programs
Basketball for all ages is happening in Morinville. The Morinville Youth Basketball Association are currently run programs for ages 6 to 8 on up to an adult drop-in program at MCHS.
Morinville Youth Basketball Association President James Bedford told Morinville News the new Mighty Mites program, which started in mid-January, is a free camp running from now until June. […]
Columns
National Column: Leadership race flips into high gear
by Chantal Hebert With Kevin O’Leary on stage, the Conservatives had their first chance to watch the full slate of […]
Columns
National Column: New wrinkles in Wynne’s foolhardy hydro scheme
Kathleen Wynne is trying to shut down a lawsuit challenging her plans to privatize Hydro One. The Ontario premier would be wiser to simply abandon her foolhardy scheme altogether.
Of all the maladroit moves Wynne has made as premier, privatizing Hydro One is the worst. It creates no economic benefit for the province. Nor does it help the government’s finances. […]
Business
From Council to Clothing: Brennan FitzGerald is looking to SEA Change
During the next municipal election, this October, there will be one less familiar name on the ballots in the Town of Morinville: Brennan FitzGerald. The Morinville councillor, and current Deputy Mayor, says he will be trading in politics to focus on a different passion—his new business. […]
Province
New grant promotes environmental awareness
Non-profit groups interested in educating their communities about climate change have a month to apply for a new grant the government announced Monday.
The province says it is investing $600,000 in the Community Environment Action grant program, something they say will “support all Albertans – young and old, rural and urban – to better understand and address climate change.” […]
Local News
Constituency Review input deadline looming
Feb. 8 is Albertans’ last chance to provide written or online submissions to the Electoral Boundaries Commission before the production of its interim report. […]