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RCMP share winners of Name the Puppies contest
The RCMP have announced the winners of its annual Name the puppies contest.The RCMP canine training facility is located in Innisfail, Alberta, just south of Red Deer.The contest, which ran in February and March, invited kids aged 4-14 to submit name suggestions for the first 13 puppies born at that facility in 2025.&qu...
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Red Deer County launches fire cadet program
A new fire cadet program is being launched by Red Deer County.The program will offer a comprehensive and structured pathway for young individuals aspiring to careers in fire and emergency services.It will involve both classroom theory and hands-on training, and the chance to graduate with the NFPA 1001 Firefighter Leve...
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National Day of Mourning ceremony to be held in Red Deer on April 28
Apr 19, 2025
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AHS pilots language menu to improve health care access
Apr 19, 2025
Red Deer and Area
help your community!
Red Deer County launches fire cadet program
A new fire cadet program is being launched by Red Deer County.The program will offer a comprehensive and structured pathway for young individuals aspiring to careers in fire and emergency services.It will involve both classroom theory and hands-on training, and the chance to graduate with the NFPA 1001 Firefighter Leve...
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Morning event
National Day of Mourning ceremony to be held in Red Deer on April 28
The upcoming National Day of Mourning will be observed in Red Deer with a ceremony at Bower Ponds later this month.The annual day falls on Monday, April 28 and ceremonies will be held across the country to recognize the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job.It serves as a time for reflection...
Apr 19, 2025
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AHS pilots language menu to improve health care access
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is launching a pilot program in Red Deer, an Inbound Call Interpreter service meant to improve access to medical services for newcomers to Canada. Launched in March at the Johnstone Crossing Community Health Centre, the service enables patients and clients calling in to choose from a pre-r...
Apr 19, 2025
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North Area Structure Plan
Lacombe city council makes amendments to development plan for new fire station
Amendments have been made to the plan for the development of the new fire station in Lacombe to be built along Woodland Drive.This week Lacombe city council approved the amendments to the North Area Structure Plan (NASP).There are two sections of the NASP that required amendments, these being Section 5.7.3 and 5.7.4 un...
Apr 19, 2025
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Federal Election 2025
Election approaching
PPC leader Maxime Bernier to hold reform discussion in Red Deer
The leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC), Maxime Bernier, will be in Red Deer on Wednesday evening.Joined by Kyla Courte, the PPC candidate for the Red Deer riding in the upcoming federal election, they'll be discussing reform on April 16 and the public is welcome to attend.It's also an opportunity to learn wha...
Apr 15, 2025
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UNITED PARTY OF CANADA
Candidate profile: Grant Abraham (United) - Ponoka-Didsbury
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of rdnewsNOW and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19, 2...
Apr 14, 2025
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liberal party of canada
Candidate profile: Ayaz Bangash (LIB) - Red Deer
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election. All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit. Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of rdnewsNOW and Pattison Media. Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
Apr 14, 2025
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Alberta
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AHS encourages getting up-to-date on your shots for National Immunization Awareness Week
Alberta Health Services is encouraging residents to check up on their health records and get up-to-date during National Immunization Awareness Week, April 21-30.The message is even more important as the province is dealing with multiple outbreaks of measles.AHS says the best protection is immunization.The MMR-Var vacci...
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RCMP share winners of Name the Puppies contest
The RCMP have announced the winners of its annual Name the puppies contest.The RCMP canine training facility is located in Innisfail, Alberta, just south of Red Deer.The contest, which ran in February and March, invited kids aged 4-14 to submit name suggestions for the first 13 puppies born at that facility in 2025.&qu...
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SPORTS
Provincial bowling tournament in Medicine Hat sees Edmonton move on to nationals
The Alberta 5 pin Open Championship Provincials took place at Panorama Lanes in Medicine Hat from April 16 to 19, with Edmonton receiving gold for all three of its teams.Edmonton's Men's, Ladies and Mixed teams will move on to the Canadian 5 Pin Bowling Association's national competition in Regina, Saskatchewan in May....
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SMILE SUNDAYS
Online platform new to Alberta provides healthcare patients industry-changing voice
Kimberley Sidhu received lifesaving care at Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, and has since experienced healing through the power of storytelling thanks to an online platform new to Alberta.Care Opinion is an independent platform that enables patients and caregivers to share their lived healthcare experiences. Sid...
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Local Sports
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Register now for the 2025 ParticipACTION Community Challenge
Registration for the 2025 ParticipACTION Community Challenge is now open.The challenge is a national sport and physical activity initiative that encourages everyone in Canada to get active from June 1 to 30. After the Challenge ends, $100,000 will awarded to Canada's Most Active Community, with cash prizes to the most ...
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Aug. 8-25
Three local lacrosse athletes selected to Team Alberta for 2025 Canada Summer Games
The Red Deer Lacrosse Association (RDLA) announced three of its athletes will head to the 2025 Canada Summer Games in August.Innisfail's Lac Catudal, Red Deer's Kian Siemens, and Blackfalds' Tyrell Strauss were selected to join Team Alberta at the games, which will take place in St. John's, Newfoundland from Aug. 8-25....
Apr 18, 2025
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U12s at Red Deer's Premier Academy win national cheer gold
Red Deer's Premier Academy is celebrating a gold medal at 2025 Canadian Nationals, held in Niagara Falls earlier this month.The first place finish went to the U12 Level 1 cheer team, and marks the academy's first ever national title."We are incredibly proud of this team and everything they've accomplished," s...
Apr 15, 2025
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Canada
Some emergency departments installing AI weapons detection amid rising violence
TORONTO - London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple with increasing violence. The southwestern Ontario health-care network started using one of the artificial intelligence-...
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Pope Francis apologized for residential schools on historic Canadian visit
On a warm July day in 2022, thousands of dignitaries, Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors travelled from across Canada to powwow grounds in central Alberta. For some, the journey took days. For others, decades. They had all come to hear Pope Francis apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residentia...
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Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools
TORONTO - Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file. The Vatican says the pontiff died Monday at age 88. Francis was the global leader of Canada's m...
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In the news today: Advance polls open for final day before election
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Advance polls open for final day before election Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. Today is the...
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Advance polls open for last day as election campaign heads into final week
OTTAWA - Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. Today is the fourth and final day that advance polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. before the general election date of April 28. And unti...
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'Overwhelming': Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls
SASKATOON - The black concrete walls outside Saskatoon's only safe consumption site show the wake left by the city's drug crisis. The names of those who've died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman wh...
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World
Canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, postponed after the death of Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sunday, on the occasion of the Jubilee celebration for adolescents. The canonization Mass was to be held at St. Peter's Squ...
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Pope Francis reached out to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, but also drew unusual opposition
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: Background Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969 and led the religious order in Argentina during the country'...
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'Who am I to judge?' Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he spoke as pope. Some of his memorable quotes: A simple, initial greeting "Brothers and sisters, good evening!" ...
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