Author: Silas Reed
Millions of Ontarians who rely on paper billing for their utilities may find themselves in a bind as the ongoing Canada Post strike hits the one month mark. With mail delivery at a halt since Nov. 14, customers of major utility providers, including Enbridge Gas, Hydro One, Hydro Ottawa and Toronto Hydro, will face the risk of late fees and service interruptions if they fail to keep their accounts up to date.Those companies are urging customers to switch to e-billing, but there are still a significant amount of people who will be waiting for their bills in the mail, they…
Gisèle Benoit still gets goosebumps when she remembers the first time she saw a family of eastern wolves emerge from the forests of the Mauricie National Park, under the backdrop of a rising moon. It was 1984 and Benoit, then in her early 20s, had been using a horn to try to call a bull moose when she instead heard a long howl, followed by an adult wolf stepping out to a rocky shore accompanied by a half-grown youth and four pups.“I will never forget that,” she said of the magical moment. “It’s anchored in my heart forever.”It was only…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A family in the Halifax area says their world has been flipped upside down ever since their dog ran off into the Kelly’s Mountain area of Cape Breton three weeks ago. Dawn Morrison and her children have been searching tirelessly for their missing pitbull Nemo, after he took off on Nov. 19. They’ve put up posters around the province and offered a reward. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. “There’s been no sign, no sightings, nothing…
A yellow urn etched with a flock of birds flying away, sits next to Brittanie Chabot. She keeps it close always. “This is what I have left of my mom now, and it saddens me, we are all devasted,” she said from her Lloydminster home.On October 4, 2024, a 57-year-old woman was struck by a GMC pick-up truck on a southeast Calgary street. Police said the driver stayed on scene but the pedestrian died in hospital. Her name was Marlene Fidler, she was Brittanie Chabot’s mother.“My mom was simply making her way back to her camp on the Bow River,…
An Alberta paramedic is sounding the alarm after providing Global News with a series of screen shots showing more than 200 shifts on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Eve are currently unfilled. Going by just the name ‘David’, out of fear of losing his job, the paramedic of more than a decade, says each year around the holidays, it gets worse and worse.“We’re providing a service that people absolutely depend on,” said David. “It used to be hard to get on in Calgary; you would have to start somewhere else in the province and work you way to…
While avoiding a tax hike, Lethbridge city council has chosen to maintain operations of Lethbridge & District Exhibition (LDE) by using a contingency fund and surplus budget dollars until at least 2027. With the doors remaining open on the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre, residents had been facing a 2.24 per cent jump in property taxes for next year. However, council voted against city administration’s recommendation, instead using existing budget to ensure taxes remain in place. There will be a 5.1 per cent increase for 2025, but that was approved in 2022 and is unrelated to the operation of LDE.“The dollars…
The final development permit required for Scotia Place, Calgary’s new event centre, received unanimous approval from the city’s planning commission on Thursday. The 8-0 vote followed hours of presentations from project officials, and technical questions around the detailed designs included in the project’s application.Although digging, stripping and grading work is visible on the site of the future arena building, on the corner of 12 Avenue and Olympic Way S.E., the development permit approved Thursday would allow work to begin on the structure of Scotia Place itself.“I think Calgary will be extremely proud,” said Bob Hunter, the city’s lead on the…
Kelowna International Airport is preparing for what it predicts will be a record-breaking holiday travel season. “December will be a peak month in the history of the airport,” said airport CEO Sam Samaddar.The airport is expecting roughly 220,000 passengers in December alone, which is about 40,000 more than last year.The unprecedented numbers are being attributed to an increase in the frequency of flights and bigger aircraft coming in and out of Kelowna.“We are seeing more seats,” Samaddar said. “You have bigger airplanes, we have more seats.”According to YLW, Dec. 18 to Jan. 6 will be the busiest days of the…
Snow and ice aren’t known for making ideal driving conditions in Manitoba. And getting a set of winter tires, while helpful, isn’t cheap. Jason Dibartolo, the owner of a Fountain Tire branch in Winnipeg, said on average, a set of winter tires at his shop falls in the $1,500 to $1,700 range.“The tire industry took a pretty big increase just after COVID and during COVID. So, you know, this is now a couple of years later, and I think everyone’s just kind of used to the norm of what pricing is today on all sides of things, (including) food, (and)…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Shopping during the holiday season can be stressful and a test of patience. And for one dog recently left in the car when her owner went shopping, her patience appeared to have run out.Brenna Boyd walked out of the Save-On-Foods in Nelson on Tuesday afternoon to the sound of an unrelenting car horn.Boyd said she started walking toward the parking lot and saw the source of the noise — a boxer dog calmly leaning one paw on the horn of a vehicle while sitting in the driver’s seat. Get breaking National news…