(ANNews) – A recently released scientific study on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) poor monitoring of tailings spills merely confirms what Indigenous people have long known to be true, says the executive director of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA).  Sherwood Park-based geologist Kevin Timoney’s report, published in the peer-reviewed Environmental Monitoring and Assessment journal on Jan. […]

PUSLINCH – A flood of concerns has been raised about a longstanding gravel quarry’s application for a new water-taking permit and its potential impact on surrounding water sources and local drinking water.  Foremost, the effect the water taking could have on neighbouring private and municipal wells. The township is a commenting agency on the application. […]

A B.C. Supreme Court judge threw out a lawsuit filed against the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and Northern Health Authority (NHA) because it was deemed too long, unclear and unlikely to succeed. In a Tuesday, Jan. 14 written ruling, Justice Kenneth Ball agreed with an application by the two health authorities to strike out […]

The Township of Lake of Bays has potentially escaped an expensive legal action. During the township’s Jan. 14 meeting, council approved amendments to the Roads License Agreement Program, effectively repealing the current bylaw and saving residents on unopened roads hundreds of thousands of dollars. “If the proposal remains unchanged after public input next month, we […]

Silent Blaze is a two-part investigation by The Courier and CHCO-TV. This is Part I.  New documents reveal the Department of Justice and Public Safety believed door-to-door notification and a Sentinel system alert were enough during a raging forest fire that forced several hundred people from their homes in May 2023, which is why it […]

Administrators at the division scolaire Franco-Manitobaine (DSFM) have been busy over the past few years developing policy to keep up with technologically changing times. Their 2023–24 school year brought in student cell phone use restrictions, a full year before the province initiated the same. In 2024, the DSFM chose to implement a restriction on the […]

A division of a forestry and construction company with an office in Prince George lost a review of an arbitrator’s decision that awarded fallers $4,000 each for breach of privacy. BC Labour Relations Board associate chair Andres Barker dismissed the application by Rehn Enterprises Ltd. on Jan. 6. Rehn disagreed with last July’s decision by […]

The Prairie Spirit School Division is among the numerous school districts across Canada that have been affected by a “cybersecurity incident” involving a third-party application that is used to store student and staff information. The U.S.-based student information software provider known as PowerSchool reportedly informed school boards in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Maritimes […]

A POLICE officer, a First Nations lawyer and a community-health program manager are among a dozen people who’ve been chosen to serve as panellists in disciplinary cases involving teachers under a new Manitoba Education Department professional registry and complaint process. Bobbi Taillefer, the province’s first independent education commissioner, has the discretion to dismiss or investigate […]

The Manitoba government has scrapped plans to create a centralized database for student registration, report cards and other information at a cost in excess of $50 million. The Free Press has learned the initiative is not moving forward — unrelated to a series of recent cybersecurity incidents, although the Opposition Tories argue the shelved proposal, […]

A request by a Tiny Township resident toward the reason their property tax increased and how collected septage factored in was relayed through MidlandToday to the municipalities of Tiny and Midland recently. Questions posed to Tiny Township received a response, as published in the January 4 article, ‘Upcoming Tiny budget approval to address resident’s concerns […]

A data breach affecting multiple schools across Canada and the United States — including the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board (BHNCDSB) — involved medical records and other personal information in some cases.  The cybersecurity incident involves PowerSchool, a third-party platform that manages a range of student and staff details, like personal contact information, […]