Morning Coffee – By Aaron Hall
Weather forecast for Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Today – A few flurries ending early this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries. Wind southwest 20 km/h. High minus 10. Wind chill minus 25 this morning.
Tonight – Partly cloudy. Low minus 17.
Realtors donate to Foundation of CKHA
The Foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) is over $5,000 closer to their fundraising goal after receiving two donations from Chatham-Kent Realtors.
Representatives from the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors presented a cheque for $2,530 to the Foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA), in support of the $6.9 million CKHA Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign.
Spearheaded through the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors, the Realtors Care grant provides funding across Canada for projects that have meaningful community impact. This grant application was assisted through Brian Peifer, of Royal Lepage Peifer Realty.
This is the first donation from the Realtors Care grant Foundation of CKHA.
To date, more than $5.5 million has been raised in support of new diagnostic imaging equipment at the Chatham and Sydenham Campuses, including a new CT Scan.
The Foundation of CKHA is also thrilled to thank Brian Peifer and Deb Roberts of Royal Lepage Peifer Realty for their presentation of an additional $2,500 the CKHA Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign! Brian, Deb and their team decided to match the $2,500 that was donated by the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors.
CUPE Local 12 donates to the Hospice
Members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 12 recently made a generous donation of $10,000 to Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation to support the end-of-life services offered by Chatham-Kent Hospice to local families when they need it the most.
“We are so grateful for the ongoing support of CUPE Local 12,” stated Jodi Maroney, Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation Executive Director.
“Their members maintain our municipality and this donation really shows their dedication to community service.”
Shown in the photo, from left: CUPE members, Jen Magliaro, Sam D’Anghera, Kelly Stowe, president CUPE
Local 12, Jodi Maroney, Executive Director, Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation.
2021 Census of Population content consultation
Before each census, Statistics Canada initiates an extensive consultation program that allows data users and interested parties across Canada to share their views on how they use census data and the type of information they believe should be available from the census.
Statistics Canada is also seeking ideas for new or modified census content, as well as data sources that could be used to supplement or replace current content, to ensure that census information remains relevant for the people and organizations that use it.
The consultation will be conducted using an electronic questionnaire, which will be accessible through the Statistics Canada website for the general public and all other census data users until February 9, 2018.
Take part in the consultation, here.
Canada adds eight properties to tentative list for World Heritage Sites
The Government of Canada has updated the country’s Tentative List for World Heritage Sites, an inventory of natural and cultural heritage properties with strong potential to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Properties can only be nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List if they are included on a country’s Tentative List.
On December 20, 2017, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, announced the addition of eight new sites to Canada’s Tentative List:
– Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs, British Columbia
– Stein Valley, British Columbia
– Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan
– Anticosti Island, Quebec
– Heart’s Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site, Newfoundland and Labrador
– Qajartalik, Nunavut
– Sirmilik National Park and the proposed Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area, Nunavut
– Yukon Ice Patches, Yukon
These eight sites are joined by six sites that remain from when the Tentative List was updated in 2004.
A public process was used to solicit applications for consideration for Canada’s Tentative List for World Heritage Sites.
42 applications were received for sites from across the country, and reviewed by an independent Ministerial Advisory Committee of Canadian experts in the fields of natural and cultural heritage.
The Advisory Committee recommended to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada the addition to the Tentative List of those properties with strong potential for successful inscription as World Heritage Sites.
World news
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South African musician Robbie Malinga has died
Russian officials bar Alexei Navalny from running for president
The Queen pays tribute to terror attack victims in Christmas message
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