City council renewed its advocacy priorities for 2024 at the March 11 council meeting. Priorities include electricity distribution costs, health care supports, medical first response funding, Northwestern Polytechnic support as well as provincial and federal funding for housing needs. “As we visit different ministers, whether they're provincial or federal, we'd like to have a document […]
A County of Grande Prairie agricultural fieldman is reminding producers its Livestock Emergency Response Plan (LERP) can help them be prepared. A database for farmers to register domestic animals launched in November of 2022, LERP can help both producers and the county prepare for animal evacuation in the face of an emergency. “We felt that […]
The city will not be moving forward with a proposed composting pilot project. Last September Food Cycle Science, an Ottawa-based company, proposed to council a city pilot program to sell its FoodCycler, a powered composter, at a subsidized rate to residents. Last Tuesday (March 5), the Operational Services Committee accepted a report on the program […]
Wait times at walk-in clinics have nearly doubled from 2022 to 2023, according to a report from Medimap. In 2023, the average wait time to see a doctor at a walk-in clinic in Grande Prairie was about 72 minutes. The report says that in 2023, the average wait time in Alberta was 66 minutes, compared […]
