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A sentencing hearing begins today for a man who ran over and killed an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan.

Alphonse Stanley Traverse pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Const. Shelby Patton.

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a motor vehicle.

Patton, who was 26, had pulled over a suspected stolen truck in the town of Wolseley, east of Regina, in 2021.

Court heard the officer asked Traverse to step out of the truck and, when Traverse started the vehicle to drive off, Patton stepped on the running board and reached for the keys.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Do you know what an earthen vessel is? It's nothing more than a clay pot.

That's a reference to our bodies and our abilities in the strength of our flesh. That is all you and I have to offer God...a pot. A perishable container.

You may be like brittle, delicate china. You break and chip easily, and you could show the glue marks because of those broken times. 

Then again, you may be a rugged, scarred hunk of heavy pottery—not very attractive, but boy, are you useful. 

Galatians 3:26-28

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

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Due to the extreme cold temperatures across the Peace Country all school buses will be cancelled for tomorrow (Jan 12).

This includes, All First Student Buses, Buses with the Peace Wapiti Public School Division, Grande Prairie Public School District, Grande Prairie & District Catholic Schools, as well buses in Valleyview, Peace River, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, and Fort St. John.

School buses were cancelled this morning with windchill temperatures near minus 50. Overnight lows across the Peace Country tonight will see temperatures near minus 60 with the windchill.

On Wednesday, January 10, at approximately 12:45 p.m., the Grande Prairie Fire Department demonstrated its rapid and proficient emergency response when dispatched to a structure fire in the Mountview neighbourhood.

Two fire engines, one Ladder, one heavy rescue, and one command unit were deployed to the incident. Upon arrival, Firefighters encountered smoke and flames coming from the attached garage. Despite the challenging conditions posed by extreme cold weather, crews effectively suppressed the fire, successfully preventing its spread to adjacent properties.

The Fort St John RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a male break and enter suspect.

On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at approximately 3:15am, the Fort St John RCMP received a report of a commercial break and enter to a business located on the 9300 block of 102nd Street, Fort St John.

Frontline officers attended and received video surveillance which indicates that at approximately 2:35am, the man jumped the fence, cut locks and accessed structures in order to steal tools and various other items. The man then departed the area on foot.

In an attempt to keep teenagers safer while online, Meta announced this week that it will be further restricting content for teens that include suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders. 

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, shared in a blog post that content about these topics will be hidden from teenagers even in family or friend posts. 

A new Statistics Canada study confirms that financial limitations are keeping people without private or employer-sponsored drug coverage from following through with their prescriptions.

It's true for both those who have no coverage at all and people who have some coverage through provincial or existing federal prescription programs.

The results of the study come as the New Democrats and the government negotiate the broad principles that will shape a federal pharmacare program.

Due to the extreme cold weather school buses around the Peace Country are cancelled today:

All First Student Buses 

Peace Wapiti Public School Division

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation

All Dawson Creek & Chetwynd area school buses 

Peace River Buses 

Ecclesiastes 9:11