Category Archives: News-CFVR
Healthcare Workers Walking Off Job Across Province Protesting Job Cuts
Healthcare workers across the province are walking off the job. Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees are defending their jobs and the public health care system after Tyler Shandro, Min...
Oct 26, 2020
AUSPICE: Cenovus, Husky Merger May Be The First Of Many Similar Agreements
Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy are joining forces to create a more competitive energy company. The two oil companies announced the merger on Sunday as they both try to become more competitive in the ...
Oct 26, 2020
Wood Buffalo Adds Eight New COVID-19 Cases, Active Total Creeps Over 40
Wood Buffalo is seeing eight more cases of COVID-19. The province announced on Friday 432 new cases across Alberta - the highest daily count since the start of the pandemic. This raises the provincial...
Oct 23, 2020
Keyano Approved by Feds, GoA To Have International Students Back At School
Keyano College is once again allowed to welcome back international students. Earlier this week, the federal government released a list of designated learning institutions that could allow these studen...
Oct 23, 2020
Province Lifting Production Limit For Oil Companies
Oil companies will soon no longer have a limit on how much they can produce. The provincial government announced on Friday they’re lifting the curtailment policy, starting in December, to allow ...
Oct 23, 2020
New Centre Opening To Help Indigenous Businesses Promote and Expand
Indigenous entrepreneurs are getting a helping hand to promote and grow their business. The Northeastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association announced on Thursday they’re opening the Suncor ...
Oct 22, 2020
Local First Nations Standing in Solidarity With N.S. First Nation Over Treaty Rights Conflict
First Nations across the RMWB are standing in solidarity with the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia after their lobster pound was ransacked. According to reports by CBC, back in Septembe...
Oct 22, 2020
Five New COVID-19 Cases in Wood Buffalo, Fort Chipewyan Experiences First Cases
Five new COVID-19 cases are popping up across the RMWB. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, announced on Thursday 427 new cases across the province – the highest ...
Oct 22, 2020
Local Author Makes Shortlist for Alberta Reads Book Club
A book by a local author is making the short list for the Alberta Reads Book Club. Therese Greenwood’s What you Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home is one of six books to make the ...
Oct 22, 2020
No New COVID-19 Cases in RMWB Despite Highest Daily Provincial Total
The active total of COVID-19 cases in Fort McMurray is once again going down. The province announced on Wednesday 406 new cases across Alberta, the highest daily count since the start of the pandemic....
Oct 21, 2020
