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The Jasper Seniors Society started in July of 1976 when federal funding was given to assist seniors’ groups to get started all over Canada. New Horizons was the name given for this impetus.

"Because our current global economic system values money above everything we need to survive, we’ve been polluting, destroying and depleting water sources at alarming rates."

Premier Danielle Smith said that her government would abide the decision of the court to release the documents that the province had been stifling despite a FOIP request.

The Government of Alberta announced a series of sweeping changes today to legislation regulating municipal government and elections, including formally introducing political parties at the municipal level and giving the province more power to overrule bylaws and remove elected councillors. 

Alberta has had almost 700 UFO sightings

The Seniors Lodge Program is Alberta’s oldest affordable housing program for seniors and supports 10,850 lodge units in 149 lodges across the province.

While the project overall is on track, the Aquatic Centre reopening had to be delayed due to asbestos that was discovered and required removal.

Olivia and Noah were still the top names last year

Research shows that 4/5 of of the surviving homes from the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire had applied FireSmart principles while two-thirds of the homes that burned were rated as extremely poor.

This year, 200 wildfires have already been fully extinguished.