Local Sports
Jets playoff season comes to a close
The Morinville Jets 2017 Playoff run ended Sunday night after the Jets fell 5-4 to the Stony Plain Flyers at home.
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Year: 2017
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: SUREAL group holding meeting in Cardiff
As concerned taxpayers, we are appreciative that the Mayor and Council of Sturgeon County made an effort to answer our questions from the first open forum meeting. However, we are disappointed that they chose to respond to our questions with ads in the newspapers. […]
Local Sports
MCHS take gold and silver over the weekend
Both the MCHS Jr. Girls and Jr. Boys hit the gold-medal game Saturday afternoon in Morinville.
The Girls were first up with a 44-39 win over RF Staples to take gold.
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Arts & Culture
Champion continues community investments with $37,000 to six groups
Champion Petfoods presented $37,000 to six community groups and initiatives FebChampion Petfoods presented $37,000 to six community groups and initiatives Feb. 23, part of its annual efforts to fund a variety of community activities. […]
Columns
National Column: The middle class is still waiting
A funny thing happened on the way to Justin Trudeau’s new world of justice for the middle class: The federal government ran out of money.
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Local News
Ambrose tables private member’s bill on sexual assault
Opposition and Interim Conservative Party Leader Rona Ambrose unveiled her plan to hold the Canadian judiciary more accountable when it comes to presiding over sexual assault trials. Ambrose’s Private Member Bill – the Judicial Accountability through Sexual Assault Law Training Act (JUST Act) was tabled Thursday morning to hold the Canadian judiciary responsible for the ongoing training of its judges on the application of law in sexual assault trials. […]
Local News
Morinville Jets need one more for round two win
The Morinville Jets squeaked out a 5-4 road win over the Stony Plain Flyers Wednesday night to take the third game of their best-of-five CJHL Round 2 Playoff series. The series now stands 2-1 in the Jets favour.
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Business
Town considering paving over part of Perras Place
Council has received a report from Morinville’s Director of Planning and Development Greg Hofmann which outlines concept plan and development process for the area surrounding Town Hall including the Midstream Support Society Building and Perras Place, both of which are scheduled for future demolition. The report was lacking in details but mostly outlined that work is underway to determine the future of the large publicly-owned site including and surrounding St. Germain Place (Town Hall). […]
Arts & Culture
Morinville to join national French heritage celebration
Blue, white and pink flags will soon be flying over municipalities in Alberta as communities raise the Franco-Albertan flag in honour of Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF), running Mar. 2 to 22. Morinville is set to hoist their flag Mar. 2 at noon to kick off a day of activities.
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Arts & Culture
One cultural centre show cancelled, another has a time change
This weekend’s Faustwork Mask Theatre: Little Big Frog, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25, will no longer be presented as part of the LIVE @ the CCC 2016-17 Season due to unforeseen circumstances, the Town of Morinville announced Wednesday.
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Columns
National Column: Spate of byelections will leave big shoes to fill
Under the guise of the first large set of byelections since Justin Trudeau became prime minister, voters are about to turn a definitive corner on generational change on Parliament Hill.
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Local News
Morinville schools assemble against bullies
On Wednesday MCHS, Ecole Notre Dame, Georges H. Primeau and Morinville Public School took part in Pink Shirt Day, a national movement against bullying. […]
Columns
National Column: Hamburg speech hints at Ottawa shift
The St. Matthew’s Day Banquet in Hamburg has been a big date on the German city’s social calendar for more than six centuries. Everyone who’s anyone in Hamburg attends. Under the gilded roof of the historic town hall’s palatial banquet room, keynote speakers – each year, a German dignitary and a foreign guest – discuss the great matters of the day before hundreds of revelers. […]
Business
Alice’s Attic and Imaginarium opens in downtown Morinville
Another unique store opened in downtown Morinville in February, joining Mercantile and Ron’s Collectibles in offering the community something a little different.
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Columns
National Column: Justin Trudeau explains Donald Trump to Europe
Justin Trudeau has discovered Europe. The prime minister had hoped to find there a counterweight to Canada’s economic dependence on the U.S. He found instead a continent anxious about American intentions and desperate to find someone who could interpret Donald Trump. […]
Local News
Door-to-door energy sellers moving on to other scam methods, province warns
The door-to-door sale of energy products and services is against the law in Alberta since the ban on the practice came into effect Jan. 1, 2017.
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