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The City of Dawson Creek is excited to announce free Family Day Festivities being held on Monday, February 19, 2024.

All residents are encouraged to come out and celebrate Family Day together as a community.

Activities include:

• Free Bounce Fest with several bouncy castles to play on from 10:00am to 1:00pm at the Ovintiv Events Centre Upper Lobby, sponsored by Birchcliff Energy.

• Free Public Swim from 11:00am to 3:00pm at the Kenn Borek Aquatic Centre, sponsored by Shell Canada.

“On behalf of our community, I want to thank and welcome the 2,500 athletes, coaches and referees along with the many spectators to our northern city for a weekend celebrating competition and camaraderie at the 2024 Alberta Winter Games.

We’re thrilled to have been chosen as the destination for this year’s Games and to showcase the warmth and hospitality of our city. Grande Prairie has an established history of being an incredible games host and we're proud to bring athletes from every corner of Alberta here to compete, make friendships and create lasting memories.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City recently released its fourth-quarter report showing Canadian grain volumes are down 15 percent on a year-over-year basis. driven by the weak harvest.

The Assistant Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Bulk, Elizabeth Hucker, says their Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer John Brooks noted that a key factor in the drop is the weak harvest in 2023-2024.

She notes that was especially true for the CPKC draw area in Southern Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan.

Stephanie Morales-Beaulieu grew up in a home filled with love and Jesus, but life took a turn when her father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. 

"He called me and said 'The doctor says I have ALS. It's fatal. There is no cure and I have 3 to 5 years.' The more I learned about it, the more I realized how bad it was."

Genesis 42:25–28

Joseph then ordered his servants to fill the men’s sacks with grain, but he also gave secret instructions to return each brother’s payment at the top of his sack. He also gave them supplies for their journey home. So, the brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain and headed for home.

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

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The 2024 Alberta Winter Games will be taking place this weekend in the City of Grande Prairie, The County of Grande Prairie, and the MD of Greenview. 

Games Manager Lisa Kerkhof says “This is an exciting time for our city. We will be welcoming 1900 athletes, 500 coaches and 250 officials into the region.”

The Winter Games are a multi-sport event giving youth aged 11 to 17 the opportunity to compete at a provincial level.

There will be 18 different sports for spectators to check out over the 4-day event. 

RCMP say a woman, her three young children and a teen relative were found dead Sunday at different locations in southern Manitoba. The woman's partner, 29-year-old Ryan Howard Manoakeesick of Carman, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

Here is a timeline of the police response to the killings. All times are local:

7:30 a.m.

Officers are called to a report of a hit and run on Highway 3, south of Carman, where they find the body of a 30-year-old woman in a ditch.

10 a.m.

Manitoba Liberal MP Ben Carr, making a key announcement Friday that will help grow Canada's pulse industry.

Carr on behalf of Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced a federal investment of $11,017,979 million to support the new Pulse Cluster under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding.

Disregarded policies and a failure of management led to the development of the inordinately costly and much-maligned ArriveCan app, an investigation by Canada's auditor general has found. 

The federal government launched the app in April 2020 as a way to track health and contact information for people entering Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to digitize customs and immigration declarations.

The auditor found the government's reliance on sole-sourced external contractors drove up the price of the app, and those costs weren't properly tracked.