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For a fifth month in a row, natural gas prices in Alberta aren’t high enough to trigger the provincial rebate. The province issued a bulletin on Thursday saying February’s default natural gas rate is $3.715 per gigajoule (GJ), well below the $6.50 per GJ triggering rate and January’s $6.446 per GJ.When the natural gas rebate was initially announced, it was set to run for the six-month stretch between September 2022 and March 2023, but the government recently said it would be extended as part of the affordability action plan.“We look forward to providing more information in the coming months,” Andrea…

There was a point this past summer when Ben Harpur contemplated giving up hockey altogether.  It wasn’t until there was less than a week before training camps opened that the Blue Jackets signed the 27-year-old defenseman to a professional tryout contract, which went awry after Harpur was hurt in a fight during a preseason game against the Penguins. He was cut and then had to resort to another PTO with the Rangers’ AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.  After being called up in early December, Harpur was a healthy scratch for five games before he got his chance on Dec.…

MEMPHIS – Tyre Nichols protesters blocked traffic on a Memphis freeway Friday night after video was released showing police beating the young Black man as they attempted to arrest him.”Stand up, fight back,” the protesters chanted on the I-55 bridge, video captured by Fox News shows.WATCH:WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HEREProtesters gathered and marched after an hour of video footage was released showing police beat Nichols. The 29-year-old was hospitalized after the encounter, but died three days later.”We shuttin’ it down,” one protester can be heard shouting.”By any means necessary,” another said.Memphis officers pulled Nichols from his vehicle in…

Vernon, B.C. has a new Good Citizen of the Year. Centenarian Helen Sidney was surprised with the honour this week at city hall.Sidney said when her daughter, who knew about the award, said they were going to make a rest stop at city hall Sidney had no idea what was about to happen.“It was the biggest surprise of my life,” she said.Sidney is well known along Bella Vista Road in Vernon for her daily efforts to clean up the area by picking up garbage and cans.The money she gets from the recycling, the former teacher, donates to schools. When asked…

Vernon has its first ride-hailing service. Uride, which already operates in several other B.C. communities, launched in the North Okanagan city on Friday.“The people of Vernon have expressed a need for safe, reliable, and affordable transportation. We’ve been up and running in Kelowna, Kamloops and recently Prince George and Nanaimo so Vernon was just the natural expansion,” said Uride Western Canada Operations Manager, Ravi Dhami.The company says it is starting in Vernon with a few dozen drivers and is recruiting more.Like well-known ride-hailing businesses Uber and Lyft, which are not currently available in the Okanagan, Uride has an app. Customers…

Former Australian cricketer Adam Dale says the Sydney Thunder vs. Brisbane Heat match was going to be a great one until the rain came and “everyone hit the ground.”“Certainly, of course, we as Heat fans wanted it to go away,” Mr Dale told Sky News Australia.“It was just was going to be a terrific spectacle and then there was a little glimmer of hope that took the covers off but then the rain came down.” Source: Sky News

Keremeos, B.C., residents are still dealing with the aftermath of a rockslide that caused serious damage nearly two weeks ago. With the evacuation order now lifted in the area, residents are finally returning to their homes. On Jan. 16th in Keremeos, rocks came crashing down onto Highway 3 and the Eagle RV park and campground.“I was in complete panic, I was in panic,” said Eagle RV resident Kyle Heller.Heller remembers the fear he felt as he quickly grabbed his dogs and what he could while staying out of the rockslide’s path. On Friday morning, he was finally allowed back home…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday said he feels personally “betrayed” by the five Memphis officers involved in the Jan. 7 beating of Tyre Nichols, who died three days later in the hospital.Adams made the comments on Friday afternoon before the Memphis Police Department’s plans to release police-worn body camera footage of the Jan. 7 attack against Nichols, 29, who was initially pulled over for “reckless driving.””As a human being, I am devastated. As a mayor, I am outraged. And as someone who spent decades fighting for police diversity and against police abuse, I feel betrayed by these…