Efficiency Canada has just released its 2022 Canadian Energy Efficiency scorecard and British Columbia leads the rankings for the fourth year in a row.
“BC’s updated climate plan includes several nation leading policies. Now the province needs to implement them,” it states in the report.
Continue reading BC leads in Canada’s Energy Efficiency scorecard for the fourth year in a row
In the second of a series of programs about his running for Regional Director of Cortes Island, Mark Vonesch talks about growing up on a farm and what his rural background could mean when it comes to representing Cortes on the Strathcona Regional District Board.
His family operated a dairy farm, with 50 cows, outside Olds, Alberta. Mark is the oldest of six children, which he jokes may have been a strategic move by his parents to have more help on the farm!
Continue reading Mark Vonesch 2: Supporting Cortes Island farmersBy Michael Potestio, Kamloops This Week, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Frank Caputo will vote against implementing the Emergencies Act to address weeks-long Freedom Convoy protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that have resulted in a vehicle-clogged downtown Ottawa and border blockades across the country.
“I will be opposing it,” Caputo told KTW, arguing implementing the act should be legislation of the last resort.
It is the stance interim Conservative Leader Candace Bergen has said her party is taking as Parliament on Thursday (Feb. 17) began debating the federal Liberal government’s temporary special measures, which were invoked Monday for the first time since the act was created in 1988 to replace the War Measures Act.
Continue reading Conservatives will vote against implementing Emergencies ActBy John Watson, Strathmore Times, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chestermere-Strathmore MLA Leela Aheer and Bow River Riding MP Martin Shields have shared their thoughts on the trucker convoy protesting in Ottawa, as well as the anti-mandate protests happening locally.
Continue reading Alberta MLA & MP: Supporting peaceful protestBy Chevi Rabbit, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – Marless Johnson is a mother on a mission to get justice for her daughter, Billie Johnson. Trial dates are set for March 20, 2023, to April 2, 2023. Jury selection takes place this month.
Billie Johnson was living in Edmonton at the time of her death and in a relationship with Kenneth Courtorielle, 35, who has been charged with second-degree murder in Johnson’s death.
Continue reading New ‘Southern Wind Foundation’ launched to honour Billie Johnson and other MMIWG
