March 9, 2010

A mobile home in Southview was destroyed by fire Monday .

Fire officials got the call just after 2 pm and arrived to find the interior of the trailer was already destroyed.

But they were able to keep the fire from spreading to other units.

No one was hurt - and the cause of the fire and a damage estimate are not yet available.

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A new funding model proposed for the event centre project is making it's way around city hall.

The event centre committee has been given a verbal update on the idea - which comes from the energy committee.

City staff will now investigate the idea more fully.

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The Prairie Rose School Division could shut down the Bindloss School this morning.

For weeks, trustees have held public meetings and received delegations from concerned parents, but today they will vote on the issue.

Trustee Marian Peers says only 16 students are enrolled in Bindloss this year.

Next year it could drop to 10.

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Chat News has learned the city has received an offer for the Riverside water park .

The deadline for proposals expired at the end of February.

Alderman Julie Friesen tells us she had high hopes for receiving proposals.

It turns out, the slides are in such poor condition, that it would cost more than expected to re-open the business or redevelop the site.

It will take some time before more details are released -- officials say it could be 4-6 weeks before the proposal makes its way to city council.

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An article in the latest edition of Audubon magazine has premier Ed Stelmach concerned.

Stelmach says he's disappointed that it calls on American politicians to adopt policies that shun fuels taken from Alberta's oilsands.

N-D-P Leader Brian Mason says Alberta should be focusing on tightening environmental standards in the oilsands.

Liberal Laurie Blakeman says the Audubon article represents a serious problem for Alberta and the premier should not be down playing its impact.

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A doctor says the father of a Calgary toddler who died of a methadone overdose did not have permission to have the powerful drug in his home.

Jonathan Hope and Lisa Guerin are on trial for manslaughter in the death of their 16-month-old daughter Summer, who ingested methadone in April 2006.

The doctor from the Second Chance Recovery Clinic says Hope was allowed at one point to carry home his methadone in a locked box, but that privilege was revoked in 2006.

Court has heard that Hope told two officers he managed to take part of his dose home and he believed the medication was out of his daughter's reach.

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Researchers in the province are trying to come up with better ways to diagnose and treat heart disease.

The research program, dubbed Alberta HEART, will invite Albertans who suffer from heart trouble to take part in clinical research on diastolic heart failure.

The condition occurs when the heart fails to relax properly between beats.

About 80-thousand people in Alberta have been diagnosed with heart failure.

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A drug-trafficking investigation at the Regina Correctional Centre has led to charges against four people.

Mounties say two of the suspects are guards.

R-C-M-P Inspector Mercer Armstrong says a variety of drugs are involved.

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The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities begins administering a new provincial rat eradication program, starting April 1st.

And executive director Ken Engel has ambitious plans to make the province rat-free like Alberta.

But Engel says that will take more than the 600-thousand dollars currently earmarked for the program.

He believes if there is a co-ordinated effort among rural municipalities the province will come up with more money.

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More than one-third of people in the Calgary region will be a visible minority by 2031, according to projections released today by Statistics Canada.

The proportion is expected to spike to 38 per cent in three decades, from 22 per cent in 2006, the last census.

The projections for Calgary and nationally suggest the face of Canada will change even more dramatically than it already has as immigrants from South Asia and China continue to outnumber the Europeans who settled the country.

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A private-sector labour company expects a modest hiring climate for the second quarter.

A recent Manpower Canada survey found 17 per cent of employers asked expect to see higher payrolls in the upcoming quarter.

That compares with six per cent who anticipate a smaller workforce and about three-quarters who expect to stay the course.

The survey polled about 19-hundred companies.

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Toyota says one of its field technicians will look into why a California man's Prius sped uncontrollably up to 150 kilometres an hour.

James Sikes says his gas pedal got stuck after he accelerated to pass another vehicle.

A California Highway Patrol officer helped Sikes bring the vehicle to a safe stop.

Sikes says he was told his car wasn't on the recall list.

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