Tuesday March 12, 2024
- Officials say they are preparing for “the worst” ahead of this year’s wildfire season, following last year’s record-breaking result.
Right now, 55 fires are burning in the province, about two-thirds of which are burning in Peace River, High Level, Grande Prairie and Slave Lake. - Health Care engagement sessions start today in Northwestern Alberta.
Sessions today are in Grande Prairie this morning, and Falher this afternoon. - A search of a home in Grande Prairie has lead to police laying a number of firearms and drug charges.
A Grande Prairie man has been charged and was due in court yesterday. Details and photos are on the App. - A number of names are in the running to replace Rachel Notley as the leader of the NDP in Alberta.
Sarah Hoffman says health care has been one of the big topics she’s heard on the campaign trail. (Interview on App) - Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi officially announced that he is running to be the leader of the Alberta NDP.
He joins MLAs Kathleen Ganley, Rakhi Pancholi, Sarah Hoffman and Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse and Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan in the race. - Alberta’s government is updating its electricity market rules with new temporary measures it says will help lower consumers’ utility bills.
The aim is to practice “economic withholding,” a strategy regularly used by power generators in Alberta’s unique-to-Canada free-market electricity system. - Eric Carmen, the former lead vocalist of The Raspberries and singer of “All by Myself,” and “Hungry Eyes” is dead.
He was 74. No cause of death was given. - Canadian curler Briane Harris was ineligible to compete in the national women’s championship because she tested positive for a banned substance.
Harris tested positive for trace amounts of Ligandrol in an out-of-competition doping control test conducted on Jan. 24. - NPHL Finals tonight… Game 1, Spirit River is in Falher. The Rangers last won in 2017, while the Pirates go for their first title since 2012.
- Three Canadian teams are in action in the NHL tonight… Colorado is in Calgary, Columbus is in Montreal, and Pittsburgh is in Ottawa.
- Lots of sunshine is appearing this week in Northwestern Alberta. Temperatures will definately be melting the snow on the ground at a rapid pace.
Numbers could be in the teens, and maybe the mid-teens by the weekend.
Keith Hopper, Trending 55
