Wembley News Archive

Indigenous Veterans Day The day recognizes and remembers First Nations, Métis, and Inuit soldiers who have fought and lost their lives, and the treatment they faced after returning home.  Grande Prairie The outdoor Remembrance Day ceremony in Grande Prairie started with parade down 100 St. To the Cenotaph in Jubilee Park.  The ceremony was hosted […]

Peace region residents are paying up to five times more for their electricity than fellow Albertans and the City of Grande Prairie is championing efforts to change that.  The city is pushing the province for a review of its electricity distribution regulations, asking for an equalization model that would eliminate the disparity in pricing across […]

Northern MLAs are coming together to seek changes to the proposed electoral divisions from the Electoral Boundaries Commission. The proposed boundaries would involve the resizing of electoral divisions, including the merger of Saddle Hills County with the Grande Prairie-Wapiti riding, and the removal of the Lesser Slave Lake riding. “If these factors are not considered […]

Two of Alberta’s remaining southern mountain caribou populations will be put at risk of local extinction if the province’s management plan for the Upper Smoky area goes ahead, says the Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA). The area is south of Grande Prairie in the Kakwa Wildland Park and includes about half of the Willmore Wilderness Park. […]

First-year students in the Veterinary Technology program at Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP) Fairview campus are “devastated” by the announcement of the campus closure.  Twenty-eight students started the two-year diploma program just two months ago, and learned of the closure at the same time media releases went out around 8:30 p.m. Oct. 29.  NWP said it is […]

A Grande Prairie local has applied for a petition to recall Grande Prairie MLA Nolan Dyck. Recall petitions for United Conservative Party MLAs are growing across the province following the government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.  “Dyck was chosen by the people to represent their interests and not echo […]

For about 75 years, the Grande Prairie Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion has raised funds supporting the community and its local Legion.  The fundraisers included the once-popular Poppy Tea and themed dinners, such as Hawaiian night, and fashion shows with funds going to a variety of community groups, including minor sports leagues, the […]

The time has come to don the poppy once again. A host of ceremonies to mark Remembrance Day are being planned for this week. Nov. 8Indigenous Veterans Day10:30 a.m.Veterans Memorial Gardens & Interpretive CentreGathering at 10 a.m., ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Refreshments to follow. Daniel Franklin Rycroft: A Story of Survival1:30 p.m.Grande Prairie MuseumPeace Country […]

A 14 per cent increase in calls for service to Odyssey House in the last year has led to an expansion of its emergency shelter. The prevalence of family violence is a “public health crisis,” said Odyssey House executive director Mikaela Benson.   “There were 53,000 calls for help across Alberta to women’s shelters,” said Benson, […]

Chewing hot coals, licking a red-hot knife, breathing fire, or extinguishing a 3,482 C cutting torch with his tongue are just some of the acts performed by Doug “The Demon” Thompson. His social media presence, which has gained millions of views, is dominated with disbelief in the comment sections; people claim it's an act, an […]