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A new inter-city bus service is up and running in Edmonton.

FlixBus is a low-cost bus service offering trips to Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge.

The Munich-based company took over Greyhound Lines Inc. in 2021. It started service in Edmonton on Friday.

There will be four daily trips from Edmonton to Calgary and Red Deer. One bus a day will travel to Lethbridge, with stops in Claresholm, Fort McLeod and Okotoks.

"Edmonton and Calgary, as much as we may feel there's a rivalry, there's also tons of mutual connections and families and friends. So just enabling more of that visiting, connecting, I think it's a really positive thing," said Edmonton Coun. Anne Stevenson. [...]

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Claresholm, Alberta

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Livewire Tour Autumn 2022

This was the second of two tours I set off on this year, and the second failure. Two for two failed tours in twenty twenty two. Too many twos. Cursed. In any case, failure aside, this was awesome. Ty joined me, having been evacuated from instructional league in Florida on account of Hurricane Ian. Halcyon conditions. A couple great days of riding.

So, the plan was three days, 400kms, something like 2300metres. Reasonable, maybe not for unaccustomed Ty, but he’s young and fit. Lethbridge to Willow Creek, Willow Creek to Pincher Creek, Pincher Creek back to Lethbridge. We set off about 10am on Saturday. I was pretty fully loaded, Ty less so. I was on my Atlantis, Ty was on my Platypus. Among other supplies, we were carrying a Ziploc freezer bag containing an entire carton’s worth of livewire candies. Hence, the livewire tour.

FORESHADOWING: on the way out of the city, I made the mistake of uttering the phrase, “I never get flats.”

As soon as we got through the west side of town and onto the gravel roads at the outskirts, just as our general momentum was ticking up and spirits climbing high, I flatted. It’s true that I never flat. This winter I bunny hopped my commuter into a McDonald’s parking lot and landed on the small curb causing a pinch flat. That was my first flat in roughly 17,000kms. None since. So I was surprised, but whatever, no biggie. Fixed the flat and we were back on our way.

For quite a while, the country roads were in really great shape. Firm and minimal rocks. Our fav early stretch was on what Ty deemed “Poo Road.” We got passed by a succession of trucks evidently carrying manure, so it was stinky, but we were rolling fast. From there we got on a canal road that carried us up to and past the Granum highway. Once we hit Willow Creek County, though, the roads were freshly graded and it was a tough slog. We ambled along for a bit at 14 or 15kmh, I told Ty the moth joke and we listened to an article about the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Then at 60km I got into the drops and did a big pull at 21kmh for 11 or 12kms.

At about km 75 we turned northward and pfffff nother flat. Bahhhhhh. I only had the one spare Schrader valved tube, but I had tons of patches. This should have been no problem, although I was mystified still. Over the following two hours this happened: I patched the tube, inflated it, had it in the bike, packed back up ready to go, and PFFFFFFFF flat. Figured the patch didn’t hold. So, next thing I tried was patching the other tube that got pinched near town. Patch failed while I was inflating. Instead of re-patching, I hatched a plan, thinking that somehow all the weight I was carrying in the back was making me pinch-prone, to take the 55mmer off Ty’s rear wheel, put it in my bike (I knew it would clear BARELY), and use the spare tube I had for his bike (Platypus is set up 2bliss) to get the 47mmer from my bike into his. Then I could also run less psi and my patch would maybe hold? Installed, inflated, ready to go, PFFFFFFFF. Bahhhh. At this point, it is occurring to me that somehow issues with flat are imperilling the entire enterprise. What a thing to run into trouble with. Embarrassing! I stared off into the distance feeling sad for like half an hour. I thought maybe we could walk 15kms to Claresholm, sleep in a dugout, pray to god the hardware store had tubes in the morning, and go from there. But that was dumb. And I felt like I really didn’t understand the cause of the flats, still. So, I called for a rescue.

The whole goal of the tour was the Porcupine Hills. Spectacular anytime, especially so in the fall with amazing weather. And we also had dinner planned at Chez Gascoyne in Pincher Creek on Sunday night. So, Sunday morning I woke up, unpacked the bikes, re-2bliss’d the Platypus, bought a couple new tubes (all they had), swapped in a burly Big Ben on my rear wheel, and loaded the bikes into my dad’s truck. Plan: get dropped off by Jemma for a day ride in the Porcupines, ride into Pincher, have Chinese food for dinner, go home.

The day ride was awesome. The roads were so good, scenery better, weather amazing. We had loads of fun, high spirits the whole way.

5km outside of Pincher, flat. Lol. Patched, sorted, back on the road. 3km later, as we turned into town, pfffffffff, FLAT!!! I guess at that point I wouldn’t have had it any other way. My theory is that my old, shitty, plastic rim tape wasn’t covering the spoke holes properly. So I’m gonna re-tape, but really I am seriously considering re-lacing the rear hub to a cliffhanger and swapping in a dynamo cliffhanger I already have for the front. 2bliss, set it and forget it. Seems wise. Anyways, at this stage, I could not be bothered. So I walked the rest of the way, using a steep dirt walking path to enable the most efficient route to Chez G. Ty rode loops around me and walked up the path in solidarity. Sweet bro.

We had Chinese dinner and a couple beers as planned. Drove home. Goodnight.

Not remotely what we planned, but still a great send off to the season.

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Which is easy Canada immigration program?

Canada, with its breathtaking landscapes, friendly communities, and high quality of life, is a dream destination for many looking to start a new chapter in their lives. If you're considering making the move, you'll be happy to know that Canada offers several straightforward Canada Immigration Programs. Let's dive into the details of some of the easiest pathways to make your Canadian dream a reality.

Express Entry System:

The Express Entry system is like the VIP lane for immigration to Canada. It's quick, efficient, and points-based. You'll need to create an online profile and fill in your education, work experience, language proficiency, and other details. Based on this information, you'll be given a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score. Regular draws are conducted, and if your score is high enough, you receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence.

Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs):

Canada has ten provinces and three territories, each with its unique needs and opportunities. Many of them have their own immigration programs called Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs). These programs allow provinces and territories to nominate individuals who can contribute to their local economies. If you have skills or work experience that align with a specific province's needs, you may be able to secure a nomination and boost your chances of obtaining permanent residence.

Atlantic Immigration Pilot:

For those interested in living in the beautiful Atlantic provinces - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador - the Atlantic Immigration Pilot could be your ticket. This program is designed to attract skilled workers, graduates, and immigrants with job offers in the Atlantic region. To apply, you'll need a job offer from an employer in one of these provinces.

Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot:

If the hustle and bustle of city life aren't your cup of tea, consider the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. This program aims to distribute the benefits of immigration to smaller communities in Canada. Participating communities, such as Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario or Claresholm in Alberta, can nominate candidates for permanent residence if they have a job offer and meet the program requirements.

Family Sponsorship:

For those lucky enough to have close family members in Canada, the Family Sponsorship program provides a heartwarming option. Canadian citizens or permanent residents can sponsor their spouses, parents, grandparents, dependent children, or other eligible relatives for immigration. This pathway emphasizes the importance of family reunification, making it a popular choice for many.

Conclusion:

The waters of Canada Immigration Programs may seem daunting, but with the right information, it can be a smooth and straightforward process. Whether you're a skilled worker, a businessperson, or someone seeking to reunite with family, Canada has a variety of easy-to-follow immigration programs that cater to diverse needs.

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Day after day, the water trucks rolled into the southwest Alberta communities of Cowley, Lundbreck, and Beaver Mines. Due to severe drought conditions, that's how residents and businesses got their water supply between last August and late August, normally getting water piped in from the nearby Oldman Reservoir. But its water levels became so low that the intake pipes were suddenly sucking in prairie air instead, requiring a desperate (and costly) truck solution.

Engineers have figured out a pumping solution to stop the need for daily trucks, but sometimes they still have to haul when the pipes pick up too much silt and sediment from the parched reservoir's bed, says David Cox, reeve of the Municipal District of Pincher Creek.

Water issues have become most of what he talks about — with residents facing sharp usage restrictions, with fellow municipal leaders and farm groups, with provincial officials on a now-regular basis.

As bad as last year's drought situation was--water trucks to Cowley, feed crunches for cattle farmers, lawn-sprinkler limits in Calgary--many indications show that this year threatens to be even worse in much of Alberta and the rest of western Canada.

The Alberta government's creeping sense of urgency showed up on Wednesday. Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz sent a letter to all 25,000 holders of water licenses in Alberta, launching negotiations to get users to reach water-sharing agreements. The name carries some gravitas, doesn't it?--will work with major water users in sectors like agriculture and industry to "secure significant and timely reductions," the minister's letter states.

A day earlier, Schulz and other top officials held a telephone town hall with a wide range of Albertans from water commissions, local councils, oil companies, and the golf course association.

Stacey Smythe, an assistant deputy minister with Alberta Environment, put forth many grim stats: west of Fort Macleod, it is at 28 percent capacity, compared to a normal range between 62 and 80 percent around now. St. Mary's Reservoir is at 15 percent, when it should be between 41 and 70.

Before freeze-up, Willow Creek near Claresholm logged its lowest monthly flow since 2000. And while northern Alberta watersheds mostly aren't as bad, up at the town of Peace River the namesake river has also logged its lowest average flow this century bodies mostly get recharged from melting mountain snowpack, and the accumulation in this mild, dry winter is lower than last year's.

Shortages could force more ranchers to downsize their cattle herds. Some oil and gas companies have begun facing crackdowns on their water use, and more may come as sharing negotiations pick up on that town hall call, predicting that trucked-in water will likely be necessary again into 2024. Ditto for urban water restrictions.

In Edmonton, a water treatment pump issue prompted a citywide alert this week to limit business and household water use, including a plea for short showers instead of baths. That could be a dress rehearsal for what much of Alberta, especially in southern communities, could be asked to comply with later this year.

The worst could be prevented by some heavy snow later this winter or the sort of springtime downpour that some rural folk call "trillion-dollar rain."

But an El Niño system such as this year's, coupled with the chronic heating effects of climate change, do not bode well, says John Pomeroy, the Canada Research Chair in water resources and climate change.

Groundwater by Kananaskis' Marmot Creek is at its lowest levels in more than a half-century, he said; and tracking of the Bow River at Calgary last summer showed it lower than ever measured, back to chinooks were warm enough to melt snow above the mountain treeline.

It's encouraging, the veteran water scientist says, that provincial officials are talking about it seriously early in the year, rather than getting caught off-guard later when (or if) disaster strikes officials have thus far avoided drawing links between worsening drought and climate change, given how Premier Danielle Smith and many on her team are uneasy talking about climate change and its consequences.

But this could be the sort of crisis year when symptoms become so acute that discussion of causes may appear more secondary.

Smythe, the senior civil servant, echoed some of Schulz's own rhetoric in saying that, on water, "we're all in this together. This situation has never been truer than it is today, and it echoes something else, too: the message from now-former chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw in the early stretches of the COVID pandemic. It caused citizens and businesses alike to restrain and compromise their own activities and freedoms for the betterment of the whole.

Those exhortations and orders to reduce and restrict everyone's well-being will make a comeback if the severe drought scenarios materialize. Schulz and Smith will face pressure to declare a new provincial state of emergency.

During her largely dire presentation on the state of dry Alberta, Smythe also made an optimistic point about the public's willingness to comply. While Calgary imposed water restrictions, Red Deer didn't, she noted--but because its residents consume Calgary media, the messages put a dent in that central Alberta city's water use, too, and parched fields may demand Albertans to all be in this together in 2024, to share, to compromise. That collective spirit didn't always work so well throughout the pandemic, and our current premier was among those who pushed back, but this time is necessarily different.

Smith leads a government that must steward a public resource we all use, and the consequences could be dire and wide-ranging if the collective fails to do so.

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Beauty and Performance review

Jean Blyth, Calgary, Alberta, with greyhound - 1900 ca

Jean Blyth, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Blyth; she married J. L. Cotter,

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A United Conservative Party candidate is suggesting heart attack victims should take more personal accountability.

Chelsae Petrovic, the UCP candidate for Livingstone-Macleod, who is also the current mayor of Claresholm and a nurse, said she sees people suffer from heart attacks and not take responsibility for the own health.

“This might be political suicide here, what I’m about to say,” she prefaced her comments during an interview in February with a podcast called The Canadian Story, hosted by David Parker and Zach Gerbe.

“We can look at this and I see it in health care, I’m going to say it: maybe the reason you had a heart attack was because you haven’t taken care of yourself; You’re extremely overweight, you haven’t managed your congestive heart failure, you haven’t managed your diabetes, and there’s no personal accountability,” Petrovic said. [...]

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Claresholm, Alberta

[saintsadness]

It's amazing re connecting with people from high school and hearing the same story from all the girls about how my best friend would try to force himself on them at the bar and because I had moved away during that period then came back to claresholm when my ex buddy quit drinking I had no idea I was just a fucking idiot like "oh dude just likes to drink" but never wondered what he got up to drunk or why so many people in town shit talked him. Like I wish one person would have told me about it back then so I could have cut his dumbass outta my life years sooner. Fucking waste of space. And I feel like shit for even having him in my life. Shouldn't have ignored him treating me like shit for year's. Oh well. Can only apologize and try to prove I'm sorry by changing actions and won't have a person like that in my life again.

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The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) Program

ECONOMIC CLASS•

FEB 07, 2020

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BY: DONALD CURRY [CICC ID: R535613]

(RNIP) continues the federal government’s strategy of granting more control over immigration to provinces and municipalities, inspired by the success of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot.

The Atlantic Immigration Pilot, which includes Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador launched in March 2017 as a three-year pilot. It has since been extended to December 2021.

The Pilot spurred the federal government to hear out MPs and advocates like myself who argued that what is good for Atlantic Canada should also be good for Northern Ontario. The two regions have much in common: the cities are smaller, spread out and are not attracting newcomers in large numbers; employers complain they can’t find people with the skills they need. Based on this feedback, Ahmed Hussen, the Minister of Immigration at the time, helped move RNIP forward.

RNIP started with a call for communities to express their interest in participating. In June 2019, Minister Hussen announced that 11 communities had been accepted. The communities included Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay and Timmins in northern Ontario; Brandon and Altona/Rhineland in Manitoba; Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan; Claresholm in Alberta; Vernon and West Kootenay (Trail, Castlegar, Rossland and Nelson) in British Columbia.

What do these communities have to offer?

• A lower stress lifestyle without lengthy commutes

• Much more affordable real estate

• Well-paying jobs for those with the right skills

• Good schools

• Quick access to nature

• Friendly and welcoming residents

Everything is a five to ten-minute drive away—work, lakes or rivers, downtown, shopping malls, colleges, universities, immigrant settlement agencies, golf courses, soccer fields, libraries and so on.

Speaking for myself, I have lived in Canada’s large cities—Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. They are great. However, life is better in smaller cities in my opinion. I moved to North Bay in 1978 and I don’t want to leave. In fact, not all immigrants come from large cities in their native countries. These people may enjoy living in Canada’s smaller centres.

Who can apply?

To be eligible for the pilot, candidates must intend to settle in the community and meet all relevant requirements such as work experience, language, education and so on.

They must have at least one year of continuous work experience in the past three years or have graduated from a publicly funded post-secondary institution in the recommending community. Volunteer work, unpaid internships and self-employment hours do not count. Work experience claimed by the candidates must include most of the main duties and all the essential duties in the occupation in the National Occupation Classification (NOC).

International students are exempt from the work experience criterion if they have a two-year or greater credential from a post-secondary institution. Other requirements include having studied full-time, graduated in the past 18 months or fewer and lived in the community for at least 16 of the last 24 months during their study. Candidates are not eligible to apply as an international student if over half their program was spent studying English or French, half of their program was through distant learning or they were recipients of a scholarship or fellowship that required their return to the home country.

The minimum language requirements are Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 6 for NOC 0 and A; CLB 5 for NOC B; and CLB 4 for NOC C and D.

It is mandatory for candidates to have a Canadian high school diploma or an Educational Credential Assessment report less than five years old showing the equivalent education.

Other than those who are already working legally in Canada when applying, Candidates must demonstrate they have enough funds to support themselves and their family members while they get settled. Candidates must obtain a job offer from the participating community, which is permanent, full-time and non-seasonal with a wage meeting or exceeding the Job Bank’s minimum wage for the NOC. The candidates' experience must show they have the qualifications for the job.

Each community will detail their additional requirements on their websites.

Which communities are ready?

At the time of writing, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay, Brandon and Altona/Rhineland are accepting applications on their websites. The others will be coming soon, and each will have its own methodology.

North Bay, for instance, is coordinated by the North Bay & District Chamber of Commerce with community partners. Coordinator Patricia Carr, announced on January 3, 2020 that the Chamber would begin by inviting only candidates already working in the area who meet all IRCC and community requirements. She said there was a potential of 20 applicants in that category and she didn’t not know how many meet the requirements. By March or April, applications will be opened to those residing outside the North Bay area, or outside Canada, and move toward the maximum target of 100 by posting jobs and matching NOC codes. The original first-year target was 250 principal applicants and their families, but the IRCC lowered this number.

How to apply

To apply, foreign nationals should read the Instruction Guide (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-0118-rural-northern-immigration.html) to first determine their eligibility and then follow the instructions step by step if they are eligible. There are forms to complete for the applicant, the employer and the designated economic development organization in the participating municipality.

Two things for the applicants to note. First, as IRCC staff said in their North Bay training session, this program will not likely be a faster route to permanent residence than existing economic immigration programs. Second, if a foreign national doesn't qualify for the pilot, they still have an opportunity to move to these communities under existing federal and provincial immigration programs.

As for the communities, note that the federal government describes the pilot as a “community-driven program designed to spread the benefits of economic immigration to smaller communities by creating a path to permanent residence for skilled foreign workers who want to work and live in one of the participating communities.” That means the program will not be evaluated on the number of people who come to the community, but by the number of people who stay. Therefore, creating a welcoming community with settlement agencies and other community partners will be a key to success for the communities.

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Located west of Claresholm, Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park is a protected area that has rolling green hills, gorgeous wildflowers, and very few people in comparison to other parks.

Within it is a region called the Whaleback(named due to it's shape) which is a unique area.

"The Whaleback is considered one of the best representations of montane landscape, flora and fauna in Canada, with very high habitat diversity. Montane compromises less than 2% of the province’s land area and occurs only where warm Chinook winds blow away the snow cover for much of the winter. The Whaleback is in fact the largest undisturbed stretch of montane landscape in Canada, and its biodiversity has brought it national significance." Alberta Wilderness Association

The Bob Creek itself is a lazy trickle into a swamp, while the rest of the park is dramatic hilly grasslands.

Much of the land is marred by ATV use, but while it can make for some uneven trails, the ruts did not diminish the beauty of the area.

Notes:

It is an open area, but do keep watch for ATV’s and step off the path if one is coming your way.

There was a bin for maps, but it does not look like it has been filled for a very long time. It is available online.

No outhouses. If you have to go, stop at the Maycroft Provincial Recreation Area