"HEALTH SHOULDN'T BE HARD"
Healthy Living Expo returns to Red Deer
The community is invited to Red Deer's Healthy Living Expo, a showcase of health and fitness, personal and family care, and even pet care professionals in the region. The event runs on Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Harvest Centre at Westerner Park and all ages are welcome. The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame will a...
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Food Bank to benefit
Correctional officers, firefighters set for 2025 Jim Pendergast Charity Hockey Game
The Jim Pendergast Annual Charity Hockey Game returns Saturday.Tomorrow, the Penhold Fire Department will face off against the Bowden Institution Correction Officers in benefit of the Red Deer Food Bank.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and puck drop is at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Multiplex. Those interested in attending can do so ...
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80th anniversary on jan. 27
Red Deer City Hall to light up for Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day, Veterans Voices holding event
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episode 1: chatting with the mayor
The Everything Red Deer Podcast launches NOW
ENROLLMENT NEARLY DOUBLED
Central Alberta Collegiate Institue shares progress with industry members
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2022 Incidents
Charges stayed in alleged sexual assaults involving youth
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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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What's Trending
80th anniversary on jan. 27
Red Deer City Hall to light up for Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day, Veterans Voices holding event
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a look back
Everything Red Deer Podcast -- Ep. 3: Remembering Michael Dawe, and reminiscing about local news in 2024
ENROLLMENT NEARLY DOUBLED
Central Alberta Collegiate Institue shares progress with industry members
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2022 Incidents
Charges stayed in alleged sexual assaults involving youth
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engage with your communities
Everything Red Deer Podcast -- Ep. 2: Join the Red Deer Titans, and The Outreach Centre's Holiday Hope campaign
issues with FSCD and PDD programs
AUPE to hold information picket near Red Deer hospital on Jan. 28
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more respect for health care workers
UNA to hold cross-province rallies on Saturday the 25th
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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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Local Sports
Legend immortalized
'I'm proud that I wore that Islander jersey': Brent Sutter reflects on historic Hall of Fame ceremony
Local hockey legend Brent Sutter's long legacy in the game of hockey has grown even larger after he was immortalized by the New York Islanders on Jan. 18. Speaking a few days after becoming the 16th member to be inducted into the Islanders Hall of Fame, Sutter is full of gratitude. That's likely because the man who spe...
Jan 23, 2025
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Team preview
Red Deer Polytechnic Queens Futsal season begins with victory
After a 12-year absence from competing in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC), the Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) Queens Futsal team has made a triumphant return to league play."When we had the opportunity to return to league play, we took it," says Mahziar Peyrow, RDP Queens Futsal/Soccer Head Coach....
Jan 22, 2025
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track preview
Red Deer Polytechnic Indoor Track team has the tools to succeed
The Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) Indoor Track team is looking to continue its legacy of excellence during the 2024/2025 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) season.During the past several seasons, the RDP Queens have been dominant on the track and the Kings have won team and individual medals."The Queens have...
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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World
North Dakota's overturned abortion ban won't be in effect during appeal, court rules
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled Friday. That appeal has yet to fully play out in the state Supreme Court after a judge struck down the law in September. North Dakota has had...
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Minnesota high court sides with Democrats in struggle with Republicans over control of state House
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Friday in a power struggle with Republicans that the chief justice said had left the state House of Representatives "completely dysfunctional." The justices agreed with House Democratic leaders who argued that a quorum in the House was 68 ...
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Supreme Court will weigh approval for US' 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an applic...
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