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Rodda said the county would now offer a $200 “community connection” grant for any local activity designed to build community, which could be block parties, swap meets or community cleanups.

The CERB application portal is slated to open on April 6

MacDougall said the panels should reduce the county’s greenhouse gas emissions by 64.5 tonnes a year, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is the equivalent of recycling 3.1 garbage trucks full of waste instead of landfilling them.

Autopsies on a female and male being completed today

The plant was one of four major capital projects paused by Pembina as part of a $1.1-billion cut to its 2020 capital plan made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and significant declines in world energy prices, the company said in a press release.

As part of the $9.5-million contract, AHS will receive 250 handheld devices, along with 100,000 testing kits, to be distributed to healthcare facilities outside of Calgary and Edmonton. The first shipment of devices and testing kits arrives next month.

The budget reduction is slated to last for three months or until regular operations can resume.