Beyond Local

The bill would allow individuals or groups to file hate speech complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which would be empowered to order perpetrators to cease communications or, in some cases, to pay monetary compensation and penalties.

The solar farm will consist of 1.3 million solar panels and will provide enough electricity to power more than 100,000 homes by 2022.

Cowessess First Nation said the number is the highest, to date, found in Canada. 

“We have created small openings in the forest to create foraging opportunities for bears in the hopes they spend some time away from places where they may run a higher risk of negative encounters in our townsites, campgrounds, roadside – or risk of mortality.”

Applications for grants at a maximum $150,000 per group will be taken until the middle of January. 

“Long distance biking is a growing trend and we wanted to be able to provide a safe place for people to camp if they haven’t made their destination of either Spray West or down into Peter Laughed."

The Cowessess First Nation says the number of unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School will be the most substantial to date found in Canada.

Ugly nest caterpillars are likely the culprit of strange webbing seen along a fence line in the County of Two Hills.

Canada's largest national park is now so threatened by upstream development and divided governance that it likely meets the criteria to be placed on the list of World Heritage sites in danger.

“None of them have been contact charges this year so far, thank God, but the female comes flying in pretty quick with ears laid back and grinding her teeth, and then you realize there’s probably a calf hidden on the ground close by.”