Highlights

The program will run for three months and will allow residents to have a fire on their driveway Saturdays until midnight.

Canmore Councillor Esmé Comfort put forward a successful motion on Tuesday (Feb. 2) to direct the mayor to write a letter to Premier Jason Kenney urging him to reinstate the 1976 coal policy rescinded by the UCP government last year.

Parks Canada has staff at the site of last week's grain train derailment west of Field to make sure wildlife keeps away.

We're not out of the woods yet, but we're starting to see some sunlight through the trees. The city enjoyed a great year of construction activity, with values of construction topping $200 million – 40 per cent higher than in 2019.

City schools and businesses weigh risks of new COVID rules

Happy Wednesday!

On Monday, Youville reported that 74 of the 189 residents in the home had contracted COVID-19 since the outbreak began, as well as 55 staff members. Eleven residents and five staff members were still considered active cases, while 44 residents and 50 staff members had recovered. Nineteen residents have died, according to the home.

In the past 24 hours, St. Albert saw another nine cases of COVID-19 diagnosed, for a total of 1,941 since the pandemic began. Twenty-one more people recovered.

Episode 3 can be viewed on Great West Media's community websites on February 5th.

Black settlers came to Canada to escape racist Jim Crow laws in the American South.