The Nutrition North will receive a $32 million investment, and this is intended to help improve the access to food for northern communities. With the announcement of the additional funding many are pushing once more to add Fort Chipewyan to the program. According to a statement by Thomas Mulcair, the NDP Leader, when he stopped…
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A man has been arrested in Edmonton on a warrant from the Wood Buffalo RCMP in connection with two of the Fort McMurray shootings that have occurred this year in the downtown area. 24 year old Saaid Mohiadin was placed under arrest on September 17 of this year, and the arrest was carried out by…
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A new $20 million XPrize competition has been started by a group representing oilsands companies, and the competition is asking people to re-imagine carbon and find new and innovative ways to address this environmental issue. According to Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance chief executive Dan Wicklum the goal of the competition is to identify practical…
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In August the Wood Buffalo Food Bank made organization history, however the history was made because of record numbers of people facing hunger. The food bank handed out 422 food baskets in August pf this year, and that is more than any other previous month. Arianna Johnson, the executive director of the Wood Buffalo Food…
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According to a recent announcement the Fort McMurray Family Crisis Society, also known as Waypoints, will receive additional funding from the provincial government of just over one million dollars. This is money that the organization can greatly use as they try to provide services to families, women, and children. The exact amount of the additional…
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The Fort McMurray arena project has caused sticker shock for many people, with a price that is expected to run close to $600 million and a lack of an anchor tenant to offer even some stability and income guarantee, yet the idea is still being pitched as a good one by the ICC. The project…
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