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A hot chocolate that will warm your heart!!

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From Melanie Sorsdahl

In March 2015, Jayden was 6 and had fallen ill with what we thought was the flu.  It turned out to be something much more serious called SIADH (Syndrom Of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion) or Hyponatremia for short.  When he wasn’t improving and was only getting worse, we raced him to the Red Deer ER.  His sodium in his body had crashed to almost nothing, and his brain function and body organs were shutting down.  The Red Deer ER Doctor Hogarth gave him a very strong dose of saline in attempts to help Jayden’s body start to produce it again itself, and then him & the pediatrician on call called the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary.  They determined it would be best for Jayden to continue receiving care there, and that they were sending STARS to get him.

He is a typical active and healthy 9 year old boy now, who does great in school and loves archery, all thanks to our local hospital, STARS, and the Alberta Children’s Hospital working together as a team. Jayden held a lemonade stand this summer and raised $158.65, then he had the idea to hold a hot chocolate stand for them too.

We are fortunate that Franco and Ernie at the North Red Deer Save On Foods decided to jump on board and allow is to hold it of front of their store. It will be happening this Saturday, October 6th from 11am ~ 3pm!

Jayden and his mom helped out with the STARS lottery campaign in Red Deer earlier this year… check out their fantastic work.

After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Temporary Alberta grid limit unlikely to dampen data centre investment, analyst says

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From the Canadian Energy Centre

By Cody Ciona

‘Alberta has never seen this level and volume of load connection requests’

Billions of investment in new data centres is still expected in Alberta despite the province’s electric system operator placing a temporary limit on new large-load grid connections, said Carson Kearl, lead data centre analyst for Enverus Intelligence Research.

Kearl cited NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s estimate from earlier this year that building a one-gigawatt data centre costs between US$60 billion and US$80 billion.

That implies the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)’s 1.2 gigawatt temporary limit would still allow for up to C$130 billion of investment.

“It’s got the potential to be extremely impactful to the Alberta power sector and economy,” Kearl said.

Importantly, data centre operators can potentially get around the temporary limit by ‘bringing their own power’ rather than drawing electricity from the existing grid.

In Alberta’s deregulated electricity market – the only one in Canada – large energy consumers like data centres can build the power supply they need by entering project agreements directly with electricity producers.

According to the AESO, there are 30 proposed data centre projects across the province.

The total requested power load for these projects is more than 16 gigawatts, roughly four gigawatts more than Alberta’s demand record in January 2024 during a severe cold snap.

For comparison, Edmonton’s load is around 1.4 gigawatts, the AESO said.

“Alberta has never seen this level and volume of load connection requests,” CEO Aaron Engen said in a statement.

“Because connecting all large loads seeking access would impair grid reliability, we established a limit that preserves system integrity while enabling timely data centre development in Alberta.”

As data centre projects come to the province, so do jobs and other economic benefits.

“You have all of the construction staff associated; electricians, engineers, plumbers, and HVAC people for all the cooling tech that are continuously working on a multi-year time horizon. In the construction phase there’s a lot of spend, and that is just generally good for the ecosystem,” said Kearl.

Investment in local power infrastructure also has long-term job implications for maintenance and upgrades, he said.

“Alberta is a really exciting place when it comes to building data centers,” said Beacon AI CEO Josh Schertzer on a recent ARC Energy Ideas podcast.

“It has really great access to natural gas, it does have some excess grid capacity that can be used in the short term, it’s got a great workforce, and it’s very business-friendly.”

The unaltered reproduction of this content is free of charge with attribution to the Canadian Energy Centre.

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Alberta Next: Taxation

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A new video from the Alberta Next panel looks at whether Alberta should stop relying on Ottawa to collect our provincial income taxes. Quebec already does it, and Alberta already collects corporate taxes directly. Doing the same for personal income taxes could mean better tax policy, thousands of new jobs, and less federal interference. But it would take time, cost money, and require building new systems from the ground up.

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