classroom complexity
AB Education recognizes pressure, it says, as school divisions struggle with EA numbers
Ponoka-based Wolf Creek Public Schools is trying to make things work as best as possible for students, but they're also feeling the financial pinch. In a recent news release, the board of trustees noted it continues to fund supports that address increasing complexity needs for students. However, in a 2026/27 budget upd...
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Red Deer athletes receive Petro-Canada FACE grant
Two outstanding athletes from Red Deer are receiving $10,000 each through the Fuelling Athlete and Coaching Excellence (FACE) Program, offered by Petro-Canada.The two local recipients are golfer Eileen Park and gymnast Cody Cyman.The funding will support key expenses such as training, equipment, education and travel as...
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classroom complexity
AB Education recognizes pressure, it says, as school divisions struggle with EA numbers
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February 2026 Incident
12-month conditional sentence for Red Deer man charged in alleged local armed robbery
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RD city council summary
Council briefs: Electric utility bylaw, amendment to Kentwood Northeast NASP, and more
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Red Deer and Area
classroom complexity
AB Education recognizes pressure, it says, as school divisions struggle with EA numbers
Ponoka-based Wolf Creek Public Schools is trying to make things work as best as possible for students, but they're also feeling the financial pinch. In a recent news release, the board of trustees noted it continues to fund supports that address increasing complexity needs for students. However, in a 2026/27 budget upd...
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February 2026 Incident
12-month conditional sentence for Red Deer man charged in alleged local armed robbery
One of three people charged following an alleged armed robbery in Red Deer this year has been given a 12-month Conditional Sentence Order (CSO). John Edward Allison, 54, of Red Deer, was sentenced in Red Deer Court of Justice on Oct. 26, 2026, after pleading guilty to one count of possess property over $5000. Among Al...
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RD city council summary
Council briefs: Electric utility bylaw, amendment to Kentwood Northeast NASP, and more
Electric utility bylawRed Deer city council unanimously passed all three readings of its 2026 electric utility bylaw on Tuesday.As a result, customers will see a 20-cent per month increase for those receiving Rate of Last Resort or Default Supply service beginning Jan. 1The city stated that this does not mean the entir...
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Reducing wildfire risk
City council receives report on current and future fire mitigation efforts
Red Deer city council received an update from administration on the City of Red Deer's approach to reducing wildfire risk and accepted the report as information.Wildfire mitigation, administration wrote in the report, is a coordinated effort to protect the city's natural areas, public assets, private property, and comm...
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Alberta
Agriculture
Province sets aside $60M for projects that would save water, retore land and grow more
The province says it has set aside $60 million for an Emission Reduction Alberta project to tackle what it calls Alberta's "biggest economic and environmental challenges: restoring land, growing more and saving water." The Agriculture, Water and Land Challenge is asking for proposals for new technologies. The...
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Provincial Legislation
New Alberta omnibus bill includes consumer protection, property rights
The UCP government has introduced wide-ranging legislation, it hopes, will safeguard Albertans in the areas of consumer protection and property rights.The changes are contained inside an omnibus bill, Bill 34, the Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act.Included in the document - help for owners o...
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classroom complexity
AB Education recognizes pressure, it says, as school divisions struggle with EA numbers
Ponoka-based Wolf Creek Public Schools is trying to make things work as best as possible for students, but they're also feeling the financial pinch. In a recent news release, the board of trustees noted it continues to fund supports that address increasing complexity needs for students. However, in a 2026/27 budget upd...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta NDP says Smith's UCP cooking riding boundaries for own benefit
The leader of Alberta's Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith's governing United Conservatives are cooking the riding boundaries for their own advantage ahead of next year's election. Naheed Nenshi says a report now before an all-party committee gerrymanders ridings in Lethbridge and Calgary to dilute NDP support ...
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Red Deer athletes receive Petro-Canada FACE grant
Two outstanding athletes from Red Deer are receiving $10,000 each through the Fuelling Athlete and Coaching Excellence (FACE) Program, offered by Petro-Canada.The two local recipients are golfer Eileen Park and gymnast Cody Cyman.The funding will support key expenses such as training, equipment, education and travel as...
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Six different goal scorers
Rebels end three-game skid with 6-4 win over Saskatoon
The Red Deer Rebels returned to the win column on Tuesday night.In front of 2,584 fans at the Centrium, the Rebels defeated the Saskatoon Blades 6-4 to snap a three-game losing skid.Rebels rookie Paxson Madill led the way with three points, including his first Western Hockey League goal.Forward Poul Andersen was right ...
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Locals among WHLers on NHL Central Scouting's preliminary Players to Watch list
A handful of locals are among the 54 WHL and 176 CHL players named to NHL Central Scouting's preliminary Players to Watch list. These are players projected to be selected in the 2027 NHL Draft next June. Per the WHL: NHL Central Scouting identifies players with a rating system that includes five categories. The 'A' cat...
Oct 26, 2026
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Canada
Liberals vote to keep B.C. tanker ban in place
OTTAWA - The Liberal government voted to keep the B.C. coastal oil tanker ban in place Wednesday, defeating a Conservative bill that would have repealed it. MPs voted along party lines during second reading in the House of Commons Wednesday, with only ...
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Ottawa introduces new fines for bogus, unlicensed immigration and citizenship advice
OTTAWA - The Immigration Department has announced new fines ranging from $5,000 to $1.5 million for people who give false immigration advice or provide advice without proper authorization. The new fine policy, which takes effect today, sets a minimum f...
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Former senator Pamela Wallin says MAID committee was 'chaotic and exclusionary'
Former senator Pamela Wallin criticized the co-chair of a special joint committee on MAID while testifying at an inquiry into a leaked confidential report, calling him "dismissive" and describing the process as "chaotic and exclusionary." "It was the w...
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One charge against Frank Stronach dropped ahead of second sex assault trial: lawyer
Frank Stronach's lawyer says one charge of sexual assault against her client in an upcoming Newmarket, Ont., trial has been dropped. Leora Shemesh says the prosecution involving one complainant in the trial set for next year has been withdrawn. Docume...
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Ottawa will need other ways to cut emissions to compensate for oil pipeline: Farrell
OTTAWA - The head of the major projects office says Ottawa will need new ways to cut emissions to meet its climate goals because the proposed Pacific Link oil pipeline will emit more than the Pathways carbon capture project will sequester. Dawn Farrell...
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Canadian War Museum acquires type of armoured vehicle used on battlefield in Ukraine
OTTAWA - Brampton-based defence manufacturer Roshel has donated to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa one of its mine-resistant armoured transport vehicles - the same kind being used by Ukraine in the war with Russia. Jim Whitham, the museum's director ...
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World
Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the enduring "Sí, se puede!" rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta died of cancer Wedne...
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UN condemns US economic embargo of Cuba though more nations sit out after Trump administration push
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly condemned the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for the 34th year on Wednesday, even as Washington's campaign to influence the outcome led to a number of countries voting against the resolution or sitting out...
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At least 30 dead and 80 injured in high-speed train crash in central Spain
URDA, Spain (AP) - A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars and killing at least 30 people on Wednesday in central Spain, authorities said. The regional president of Castilla La Mancha...
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