In a recent conversation, someone described Pink Shirt Day as their favourite day of the year. This sparked an investigation.
Pink Shirt Day started in Nova Scotia 2007, says St. Mary of the Lake principal Dan Gilmore. A boy went to school in a pink shirt.
Slave Lake’s monthly Municipal Planning Commission meeting (Feb. 1) was busier than usual. It included five home-based business items, plus a couple of industrial business applications.
Starting with the industrial ones, the MPC decided against making a decision on an application for permission to run an asphalt plant, by a company in the northeast industrial area.
Town council is not keen to meet with Lesser Slave MLA Pat Rehn. At least not until he has something to show them.
That was the consensus when the matter was discussed at council’s Feb. 3 meeting.
There’s not a lot of optimism going around about hockey or figure skating getting re-started. Based on last week’s government announcements about the gradual easing of restrictions, plus Hockey Alberta pulling the plug on the season (there goes minor hockey), things look pretty gloomy.
Here’s a question: say a senator visits your town, listens to all sorts of folks and develops a decent picture of the issues. It’s all local stuff. Highways, price of a barrel of oil, reconciliation, small businesses struggling and so on.
But then what? What can the Canadian Senate do about any of that?
The weird saga of the Town of Slave Lake vs. Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn continued last week. Mayor Tyler Warman referred to it as a “circus,” but sounded optimistic.
Rehn, meanwhile, confining his announcements to social media, had some good news about public housing and an admission of errors in his expense claims last year.
The Chief and Council of Driftpile Cree Nation wishes to condemn and express its deep disappointment in statements made by Town of Slave Lake Councillor Joy McGregor regarding the Indigenous homeless community in and around Slave Lake.
Save Chain Lakes North, a non-profit community group of concerned citizens, announced that NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt will table their petition Oct. 29. It had over 1,700 signatures demanding the provincial government keep three campgrounds and recreation areas fully open, protected and publicly managed north of Athabasca.
Support workers at the Slave Lake Health Care Centre walked off the job on Monday morning, Oct. 26. They were participating in a province-wide protest by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) against government cuts.
As reported earlier, the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation in Lesser Slave Lake is closed to the public for six months, as of Oct. 1. What wasn’t reported earlier is that the province had apparently changed its mind about the closure (and minimal cost-saving), after a furious lobby effort by local municipalities and others.