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Red Deer city council briefs: DBA financial wind-up, cart collection update, and financial reserves policy
Red Deer city council approved multiple items on the consent agenda during Tuesday's regular meeting.These include not all but the following:Final financial wind-up of Downtown Business Improvement AreaCouncil unanimously approved a resolution to allocate the audited amount of over $80,000 payable to the city by the fo...
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Update: RCMP investigating incident at Thurber on day one of classes
It was only the first day of classes, but there's already been an incident at Red Deer's Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Red Deer Public Schools, via an email sent to parents by the principal, shared Monday afternoon that at around 2:15 p.m., students and staff were safely evacuated after a "pet deterre...
Aug 31, 2026
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Red Deer city council approves changes to Municipal Consent and Access Fee percentages
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support future infrastructure investment
Red Deer city council approves changes to Municipal Consent and Access Fee percentages
Red Deer city council has approved changes to the Municipal Consent and Access Fee (MCAF) percentages for water, wastewater, and electric utilities and directed that 25 per cent that all MCAF revenue be transferred annually to the Capital Projects Reserve.As a result of the resolution, the MCAF for water, wastewater an...
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Red Deer RCMP arrest two impaired drivers
Red Deer RCMP have arrested two people for separate impaired driving incidents that took place at the end of August.On Aug. 27 at 10:15 p.m., the RCMP responded to a collision into a residence in the Highland Green Estates neighbourhood after receiving a 911 call.Police say Red Deer Emergency Services also responded af...
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Red Deer city council briefs: DBA financial wind-up, cart collection update, and financial reserves policy
Red Deer city council approved multiple items on the consent agenda during Tuesday's regular meeting.These include not all but the following:Final financial wind-up of Downtown Business Improvement AreaCouncil unanimously approved a resolution to allocate the audited amount of over $80,000 payable to the city by the fo...
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"alberta is setting the bar": mp
Red Deer rallyers call on MP Bailey to push for intervention on Alberta's Bill 11
Two-tiered, dual practice, American-style... Regardless of the label one describes Alberta's health care system with, the issue is evidently polarizing. Case in point: Rallies were held across the country on Tuesday outside offices of Members of Parliament. Across Alberta, advocacy group Friends of Medicare did the org...
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Alberta launches conservation licence plate
The Government of Alberta is launching a new licence plate to promote conservation, it announced Monday.Sales of the licence plate will be directed to the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA)."Alberta's wildlife and wild places are a source of pride for people across our province. This licence plate gives Albert...
Aug 31, 2026
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Help restock shelves
Food Banks Alberta critically in need of donations
Food Banks Alberta says their warehouse is critically low and is calling for corporate food donors and financial supporters to help restock the shelves.The warehouse supplies 112 member food banks across the province and said they got to this point because they shipped product out to their members faster than donations...
Aug 31, 2026
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Referendum seven weeks away
Separatists hold independence rally in lead-up to Alberta's birthday bash
Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago."It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm j...
Aug 30, 2026
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Alberta Day Tuesday
As referendum nears, Danielle Smith to address celebration in Calgary
Premier Danielle Smith is set to speak in Calgary Sunday at an event marking Alberta Day.Alberta officially became a Canadian province on Sept. 1, 1905.Various festivities are planned this weekend ahead of the province's birthday on Tuesday.Smith's speech at Calgary's Heritage Park is set to come as the province's sepa...
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Registration now open for 33rd annual Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Charity Golf Tournament
The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame's 33rd annual Charity Golf Tournament is right around the corner.On September 10, those who register for the tournament will get to play a round of 18 holes at the Wolf Creek Golf Resort in Ponoka, which begins at 10 a.m., in support of the Hall of Fame.Those interested can register onli...
Aug 31, 2026
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On a mission
After missing out on roster spot last season, Pickering returns with something to prove
Defenceman Graeme Pickering has returned for his third Red Deer Rebels' training camp on a mission.After falling short of securing a roster spot on the team last season, the 17-year-old has showed up bigger, faster, and stronger in hopes of playing with the major junior club.Pickering said on Friday that he's hungrier ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Molly Simpson to compete in Canadian BMX Championships this weekend
Olympian Molly Simpson, who is from Red Deer, will compete this weekend in her home province. The 2026 Canadian BMX Championships are taking place in St. Albert, Aug. 29-30. Organized by the St. Alberta BMX Association, the event is anticipated to welcome more than 860 participants and 5,000 spectators. That includes S...
Aug 28, 2026
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Canada
RCMP ask to meet ex-B.C. Conservative who says he was offered job to quit as MLA
British Columbia legislator Ian Paton said RCMP have asked to interview him on Wednesday, and expects them to ask about allegedly being offered a job to give up his seat so Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay could run. Paton, who quit the Conserva...
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B.C. government confirms errors worth $1.46B in gas revenue forecasts
Errors including botched currency conversions led the British Columbia government to overstate its forecasted natural gas revenues by about $1.46 billion over five fiscal years, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said the most s...
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Former Montreal priest convicted in 2019 of abusing boys facing new charges
MONTREAL - A former Montreal priest who was found guilty in 2019 of sexually abusing two boys is facing charges of possessing and accessing child sexual abuse material. Brian Boucher's lawyer appeared in a Montreal courtroom today on his behalf, and th...
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Champagne says U.S. move to invite Russia to G20 meeting caused 'a lot of discomfort'
OTTAWA - Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Russia's presence at a G20 meeting hosted by the United States has made many countries uncomfortable. The United States invited Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to attend the Tuesday mee...
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Check vaccinations before heading back to school: chief public health officer
TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer is urging parents to check that routine childhood vaccinations are up-to-date as kids head back to school. In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Joss Reimer said measles is still spreading, while vaccine misinf...
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B.C. boaters warned to avoid floating island that has mystified experts
Geologist John Joseph Clague said when he first heard that a floating island, bigger than a football field, had been spotted on a lake in British Columbia's northern Interior, he dismissed it as an "AI stunt." But Clague - a professor of earth sciences...
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World
Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case
HONG KONG (AP) - Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thrivin...
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The USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand following its Middle East deployment
LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (AP) - The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying...
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Sen. Ed Markey, 80, wins Mass. Democratic primary over opponent who called for generational change
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey secured the Democratic nomination in Massachusetts' Senate primary Tuesday, once again fending off a push for generational change as he seeks a third term. Markey, 80, defeated U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, 47, who had attem...
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