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Webinar examines workforce management during pandemic
The Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce is offering a free human resources webinar entitled "COVID-19 - Managing the Strategic Impact on Your Workforce.""It is clear in everyone's mind now that ...
Apr 15, 2020
Premiers don't want Emergencies Act used during COVID-19 pandemic
REGINA - Canada's premiers have sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying they do not want the Emergencies Act invoked over COVID-19. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's office said the lette...
Apr 15, 2020
Town of Ponoka launches new Online Customer Service Program
The Town of Ponoka is launching a new online Customer Service Request Program that will help to raise the bar even higher on the quality and efficiency of service it provides when responding to custom...
Apr 15, 2020
Wolf Creek Public Schools appoints two new principals in Ponoka
Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) has announced the appointments of new principals for two of its schools in Ponoka. Mrs. Evie Van Scheik has been appointed as principal of Centennial Centre Patients' ...
Apr 15, 2020 (Supplied photos)
Modulars to help ease space crunch at Catholic schools in Sylvan Lake
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools has announced that cole Our Lady of the Rosary School in Sylvan Lake will be receiving two modular classrooms this summer.The district says these modulars will allow...
Apr 15, 2020 (Photo: Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools)
Trudeau bats away WHO questions, says Canada focused on fighting COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Wednesday to join the escalating global debate about the World Health Organization's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, insisting Canada remains f...
Apr 15, 2020
'What's going to happen?' Alberta teen recounts brush with death from COVID-19
OKOTOKS, Alta. - Matt Greenshields never worried about COVID-19 until he found himself thinking about death as he was being wheeled down the empty, darkened hallways of a hospital on his way...
Apr 15, 2020
Canada needs to increase testing capacity before life can return to normal: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a much greater capacity to test for the novel coronavirus before life can return to normal. The federal government and public health officials ...
Apr 15, 2020
Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 15, 2020
Wolfpack player James Cunningham likely laid low by virus after hamstring surgery
James Cunningham just wasn't feeling right, as if he was about to come down with something. So the Toronto Wolfpack hooker/scrum half, recovering from earlier hamstring surgery, was sent home some fiv...
Apr 15, 2020