Tag: Peace River North

Several First Nations are asking a Federal Court to review Ottawa’s decision to list the proposed new oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast as a “project of national interest.”

A former Okotoks Oilers employee has been charged following an investigation into allegations that junior A hockey players in Alberta and Saskatchewan were solicited for intimate images and sexual videos. RCMP say there could be additional victims.

Morris noted having a premier from the interior is not unpredecented: W.A.C. Bennett and his son Bill, who were by turns premier for most of the years between 1952 and 1986, were from Kelowna. (Going much further back, Dr. John Duncan McLean, who was premier in 1927-28, was from Greenwood. He had previously been a schoolteacher in Rossland.)

A sharp increase in rejected ballots in Peace River North is raising questions about whether voters were making mistakes at the ballot box or deliberately sending a message.

A young Quesnel family is facing an uncertain road ahead after their baby son underwent major brain surgery to remove a large tumour.