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The City is bringing residents out to the ‘ball game’ with its new Lace ‘em Up exhibit at the Grande Prairie Museum, highlighting Grande Prairie’s sport history to acknowledge and celebrate major upcoming sporting events in 2024 and 2025.

Over the past month, fires have burned four churches across the province.  

There are some school bus cancelations this morning. 

GP Catholic School bus #408 (special needs bus) cancelled for the day.

Also PWSD buses #415,456 (for the day) and 400 are also cancelled just for the morning. 

Qapik Attagutsiak was already a young woman in 1940, a mother at ease on the land and a skilled midwife, when she heard about a conflict occurring among many people in faraway lands. 

Qapik, who preferred using that name in the Inuit tradition, was hunting walrus with her family near Foxe Basin when the local Catholic priest told her about battles being fought by men jumping from planes.

"Inuit are afraid to kill other people," Qapik told a Parks Canada interviewer in 2018.

Canada has been so slow to carry out recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that an Indigenous-led think tank says it has decided to stop publishing an annual report tracking its progress.

"At first, the project invoked hope and determination. If only the Canadian public knew about their government's lack of action, we believed, perhaps things would change," said the annual report from the Yellowhead Institute, a research and education centre based at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Luke 2:6-7

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

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Joshua 1:9

Did you know that worry erases the promises of God from your mind?

The City of Grande Prairie, supporting the Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) Initiative, is excited to announce the Youth Career Discovery Expo 2024. This large-scale event is set to take place on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at the Bonnetts Energy Centre.

The County of Grande Prairie’s dedicated snow removal crews are ready to put over 30 specialized vehicles to use clearing snow and ice from more than 3,700 km of roads.

When a large amount of snow has fallen, the crews’ priority is to ensure high volume roads and school zones are cleared first, with all roads in hamlets and residential subdivisions cleared within a 12-day cycle, and all gravel roads cleared within a five-day cycle once 15 cm of snow has accumulated. Multiple snowfalls and frigid temperatures within a short period may affect the clearing cycle. 

Alberta has attracted over 17,000 new residents since October, making it the province with the highest net gain of interprovincial migration. All provinces and territories recorded losses in their interprovincial migration exchanges in the third quarter of 2023 except for Alberta.

"Alberta has registered interprovincial migration gains of 10,000 or more for five consecutive quarters for the first time since comparable data were made available in 1971," a recent Statistics Canada report stated.