Westwood Community High School is home to a brand new fitness centre made possible through a generous donation from Powermax Contracting Ltd. here in Fort McMurray.
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Man arrested in traffic stop One man has been arrested in Fort McMurray and charged with multiple counts of possession related to drugs and firearms after a traffic stop, Sunday.
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Last weekend, the Fort McMurray Oil Barons took a roadtrip against three teams from the AJHL south division and scored 15 games in three games, but don’t expect the MOB to produce the same amount of offense against the Sherwood Park Crusaders tonight at the Casman Centre.
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DemocracyNow.org – This morning in Durban, South Africa, a group of youth and indigenous activists from Canada gave delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference mock gift bags containing samples of fake tar sands along with tourism brochures for Canada and Canadian flags. Kandi Mossett, one of the activists participating in the action, says Canada’s reliance on tar sands oil “is the largest catastrophic project that I am aware of on earth right now.” Mossett, who is the Native Energy and Climate Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network, notes that the tar sands extraction process is energy and water-intensive, emits immense amounts of pollution into the air, and destroys the landscape
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