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The City of Grande Prairie is excited to announce Ready, Set, Go! a free community event presented by Ovintiv at the Community Knowledge Campus on Saturday, March 23 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. to celebrate the shift into spring.

The agriculture sector is getting some help to employ young people.

The federal government's providing about $13.5 million to support a new application intake under the Youth Employment and Skills Program.

It'll support about 1,200 jobs.

The government will pay agricultural employers up to half of employees' wages up to a maximum of $14,000 if they hire Canadian youth. 

SVG Ventures|THRIVE, a global venture and innovation platform has announced the 15 companies selected for its fourth Academy program.

The THRIVE Academy is committed to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the agriculture and food technology space. 

It offers a 12-week program designed to de-risk and validate ideas, equipping participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the challenges of the industry. 

This year's participants come from across Canada, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the United States.

Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced $13.5 million on Thursday to support a new application intake under the Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP). 

The initiative will provide the agricultural sector with the help needed to support approximately 1,200 jobs for youth in the sector.

The Little Potato Company is a familiar name in many households selling products to supermarkets across Canada and the U.S.

The company has qualified for Alberta’s Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit program and is building a new $39.5-million project in Nisku.

The 240,000-square-foot facility will be able to process about 125 million pounds of potatoes, doubling the capacity from its former Edmonton location.

 A woman is praising God after her life flashed before her eyes while attending a church service in Alabama.

As Pastor Brandon Stewart was nearing the middle of his sermon at Mount Zion Church in Gordon, Alabama, he heard someone coughing in the front row. 

A Canadian Christian singer-songwriter has opened up about her experience with chronic pain in hopes of helping others.

On Thursday, Brooke Nicholls took to social media to write a letter to those suffering in silence.

"I can only write you this letter because of what the Lord has given me: eyes to see and, quite frankly, pain to feel."  

For years, Nicholls says she has struggled with chronic sciatica, which is pain that travels along the path of the sciatic nerve.

Ottawa is putting $80.5 million toward a mission to improve security conditions in Haiti, where rampant gang violence has caused an ongoing crisis, Global Affairs Canada said Thursday.

The money will go towards a multinational security mission led by Kenya to support efforts by the Haitian National Police, the department said.

It's expected to support training, communications and logistics for police deployed to the mission and expertise in areas like human rights due diligence.

The case of an Ontario man who carried out a deadly attack on a Muslim family was the first to recognize terrorism on grounds of white supremacist ideology and further emphasized that terrorism isn't limited to those who belong to specific groups, experts and observers said after the landmark trial ended this week.

Nathaniel Veltman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for each of four counts of first-degree murder in the June 2021 attack that killed four members of the Afzaal family in London, Ont.

Genesis 44:17–34

This was Joseph's second part of the final exam. First came the vertical test. Had his brothers gotten to the place where they read the hand of God into their daily life? Yes. They had demonstrated this in their attitude. Next came the horizontal test. Which would they choose, themselves or Benjamin? Had there been any change in their hearts over the years?