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A WWII veteran as well as the co-founder of the Christian ministry Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), Jack Hemmings, has passed away.

On Jan. 24, 2025, at the age of 103, Hemmings passed away at a hospital in Sussex surrounded by his wife, Kate. 

In 1940, at the age of just 19, Hemmings volunteered as an air crewman in WWII. After the war, he received the Air Force Cross for exemplary gallantry while flying. 

Erik Mock was in Ukraine last week during the first days of the USAID funding freeze. 

“There was just a growing sense of indifference and hardship that was going on,” he says. But the suspension of USAID funds wasn’t the main issue – far from it, in fact, according to Mock. 

The big culprit is hopelessness: Ukrainians are worn by the brutality and difficulty of life. 

1 Peter 1:13

"Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming."

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Genesis 21:1-2

God isn’t in a hurry, so He didn’t have a problem waiting a quarter century before fulfilling His promise and allowing Abraham and Sarah to conceive. Who knows why He waited that long? It was His call; His timing is perfect. Personally, I believe Abraham would not have been ready any earlier. Abraham needed spiritual maturity, so the Lord waited.

Grande Prairie RCMP have responded to 2 reports of robberies at the same business in the area of 100 Avenue, Grande Prairie and are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the suspects.

On Jan. 22, 2025, at approximately 7:00 P.M., an unknown male was able to enter the business and had a large knife; the male made way with a large amount of jewelry from the location after assaulting an employee and damaging a display case.

The male is described as:

Fentanyl has emerged as the primary cause of illicit drug deaths in Canada and the United States, and its trafficking has been cited by U.S. President Donald Trump to justify his threat of steep tariffs on goods from Canada.

But the potent opioid also has a decades long history and is extensively used as a medical pain management tool. Here's a look at the drug and how it's used:

— Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used to help relieve severe pain.

— Health Canada says fentanyl is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.

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A year after sharing her voice with the world during a small duet with her father on The Voice, Jaydn Cree Olesen has returned as a contestant. 

Her father, Bryan, a former guitarist for the Newsboys, was a finalist in Season 25 of the show. 

On Monday, Jaydn performed Paramore's "Still Into You" during her blind audition and wowed two judges, with Michael Bublé and Kelsea Ballerini turning their chairs. 

McGill University undergrad Daniel Miksha made a significant decision over the weekend.

After hearing the news that U.S. President Donald Trump planned to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports, Miksha shelved his plans to apply to Boston University, Yale and Harvard for graduate studies.

Key cabinet ministers returned to Washington Tuesday to keep pressing Canada's economic case as a month-long pause on Donald Trump's tariff threat has done little to ease Canada's concerns.

"I do think there are opportunities for conversations to enable us actually to move away from the conversation about tariffs," Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.