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Red Deer and Area

80th anniversary on jan. 27
Red Deer City Hall to light up for Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day, Veterans Voices holding event
Landmarks across the country, including Red Deer City Hall, will light up this Monday, Jan. 27 to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day.This year's observance marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.The camp was the site of the largest extermination centre for the Nazi...
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ENROLLMENT NEARLY DOUBLED
Central Alberta Collegiate Institue shares progress with industry members
The Central Alberta Collegiate Institute (CACI) announced in an industry update on Jan. 24, that its student enrollment has almost doubled since its first official year of operations in 2023. CACI is a partnership between Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), Olds College of Agriculture and Technology, CAREERS, and the Chinook's...
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2022 Incidents
Charges stayed in alleged sexual assaults involving youth
There has been a stay of proceedings for a Red Deer man charged in a pair of alleged sexual assaults nearly three years ago. Momodou Lamin Bah, 33, had a stay of proceedings on his matters in Red Deer Court of Justice on Jan. 22, 2025. According to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS), a key duty of a Crown pro...
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issues with FSCD and PDD programs
AUPE to hold information picket near Red Deer hospital on Jan. 28
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) will hold an information picket in Red Deer on Jan. 28.The union says they will be out to expose the crisis facing Albertans with disabilities and those who care for them.The AUPE notes there is a staffing crisis when it comes to the Family Support for Children with Disa...
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Alberta

Agriculture
Service charge increase, Peace farmers assume roles of board chair and vice-chair at Alberta Canola AGM
Alberta Canola says that growers attending the organization's annual general meeting in Red Deer Wednesday approved an increase in the service charge.It will go to &1.75 a tonne as of August 1 this year, pending Marketing Council approval. It had been $1 per tonne. A release says the increase comes after what Alber...
Jan 24, 2025
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Provincial Politics
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi acclaimed as party's candidate for Edmonton seat
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has been acclaimed as the party's candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona. Nenshi didn't face any competition for the nomination and, if elected, would become the third NDP leader to represent the riding. It's the latest hurdle for the former Calgary mayor to get a seat in the legislature afte...
Jan 23, 2025
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Government cuts $500K in funding to Alberta disability organization
Another disability advocacy organization says its funding has been cut by the Alberta government.Trish Bowman, chief executive of Inclusion Alberta, said Wednesday the government informed her earlier this month it was cutting some of the grant funding that the group has received for decades.She said the cut totals more...
Jan 22, 2025
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FEB. 5, 2025
Albertans challenged to embrace the cold with Winter Walk Day
Alberta Blue Cross is challenging Albertans to embrace the cold and participate in Winter Walk Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. On Winter Walk Day, everyone is encouraged to walk at least 15 minutes outside in an effort to promote and inspire a healthy culture across the province. "Winter Walk Day is a great initiative t...
Jan 22, 2025
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Canada

Canada Post gets $1-billion loan from federal government amid financial struggles
OTTAWA - The federal government is providing a $1-billion loan to Canada Post to help the Crown corporation continue operating amid "significant financial challenges." Canada Post says it was notified it will receive the $1.034 billion in repayable funding through the 2025-26 fiscal year. Canada Post says tha...
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B.C. climate activist couple to live in Pakistan if deportation proceeds
VANCOUVER - British Columbia climate activist Zain Haq and his wife Sophia Papp are planning to live together in Pakistan if his threatened deportation proceeds on Saturday, and blame his imminent expulsion on bureaucratic failings by immigration officials. Haq, a Pakistani citizen who co-founded activist group Save Ol...
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Bill Blair says Canada could hit NATO target in 2 years, but doesn't commit
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn't commit to doing so. NATO members have all committed to spend the equivalent of two per cent of its GDP on defence but Canada has consistently failed to reach that target. Last summer...
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Critics denounce Vancouver mayor's 'Trumpian' plan to 'integrate' Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER - Critics are denouncing Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's plan for revitalizing the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, with former councillor Jean Swanson saying his proposal to pause supportive housing construction is "Trumpian." Swanson, an anti-poverty activist, says Sim's plans to pause net new supportiv...
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RCMP union says Manitoba, Saskatchewan face severe staffing stresses
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA - The union representing front-line Mounties says it has not seen an internal RCMP memo calling for short-term staff transfers to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but says those provinces are under severe workload stress. Bobby Baker, the National Police Federation's director for the Prairies, says...
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'You better pray we get elected': Doug Ford says he will call snap Ontario election
Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump as a justification. That election call would send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, more than a year before t...
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