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AUPE members rally outside Optima Living Aspen Ridge
A group of approximately 30-40 Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) members held a rally in Red Deer Tuesday afternoon in hopes of reaching a deal on a new contract with their employer.For a little over a year the AUPE and Optima Living Aspen Ridge have failed to reach a tentative agreement since the last one e...
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Fibre optic installation work happening in Red Deer through 2025 & 2026
Work to install fibre optics in Red Deer is beginning, the municipality advised this week.F3 Networks Canada Inc. (F3) is partering with Telus to bring fibre optic services to more homes and businesses, with crews doing work throughout 2025 and 2026.Residents may be visited from the F3 team as they go door-to-door to g...
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April 6
Innisfail RCMP arrest two after traffic stop leads to drug and weapons seizure
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"A Gathering Place" program seeking community support amidst funding cuts
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Red Deer and Area
April 6
Innisfail RCMP arrest two after traffic stop leads to drug and weapons seizure
Two people have been arrested and charged after a traffic stop by Innisfail RCMP that led to the seizure of drugs and weapons.On Sunday, April 6 the RCMP stopped a vehicle for a mismatched license plate and saw a female walk away from the truck with a backpack.Mounties say she returned to the truck while police were sp...
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OPEN HOUSE APR. 9
"A Gathering Place" program seeking community support amidst funding cuts
A Red Deer organization supporting adults with mental health diagnoses is hosting an open house and seeking public support after receiving notice from Recovery Alberta that its funding has been cut. A Gathering Place (AGP) is a peer support clubhouse operated by the STEPS Society of Red Deer, offering users preventativ...
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AUPE members rally outside Optima Living Aspen Ridge
A group of approximately 30-40 Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) members held a rally in Red Deer Tuesday afternoon in hopes of reaching a deal on a new contract with their employer.For a little over a year the AUPE and Optima Living Aspen Ridge have failed to reach a tentative agreement since the last one e...
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province, ottawa both need to speak up
Reaction mixed as UCP proposing choice of police force for municipalities
The Government of Alberta is proposing amendments which it says would ensure the province's evolving safety needs are met by giving municipalities choice in policing.Bill 49, or the Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, would create a new independent agency police service to assume the police-like duties of Alber...
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Federal Election 2025
Liberal Party of Canada
Candidate profile: Michael Fark (LPC) - Yellowhead
Michael Fark, the Liberal Party of Canada's (LPC) candidate for the newly re-drawn Yellowhead riding, says he's stepping into the political arena with a wealth of practical experience and a focus on infrastructure, crisis management, and local economic development.Fark, who currently calls Jasper home, says he brings a...
Apr 07, 2025
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Conservative Party of Canada
Candidate profile: William Stevenson (CPC) - Yellowhead
William Stevenson, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) candidate for the newly re-drawn Yellowhead riding, is stepping into the political spotlight after years of behind-the-scenes work.A professional chartered accountant (CPA) with over 26 years of experience in personal and corporate tax, Stevenson says he has dee...
Apr 07, 2025
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New Democratic Party
Candidate profile: Avni Soma NDP - Yellowhead
Avni Soma, the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the Yellowhead riding, is bringing her diverse background in business, food systems, and community advocacy to the political arena. After years of building businesses and pushing for systemic changes on a local and national level, Soma says it's time to bring her ...
Apr 07, 2025
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Alberta
Provincial Politics
Alberta measles outbreak not dire enough to warrant public address; health minister
Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says Alberta's measles outbreak isn't dire enough for the province's top doctor for public health to address the public, despite mounting calls for the government to do more to stop the spread.Alberta has reported 43 cases of the highly infectious disease over the past month.The Edmonto...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta moves to restrict public boards' power to police trustees, councilors
Alberta is looking to reduce the self-policing powers of elected public school boards and municipal councils.The changes are included in two bills put forward by Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government.In one bill, Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver proposes pulling local council's codes of conduct a...
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top cop
Alberta RCMP name new commanding officer
Alberta RCMP have announced Assistant Commissioner Trevor Daroux will become the force's next commanding officer. Daroux has over 36 years of experience in policing, serving in both Calgary with CPS, and with the RCMP elsewhere. In 2017, he joined the RCMP and served as Director General National Crime Prevention and In...
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looking to increase surgery volume
UCP announce new funding model for acute care, critics say it's another step in wrong direction
With Acute Care Alberta now quite operational, the UCP shared Monday a new funding model for acute care is coming into play.The government claims its new model will increase accountability, efficiency, and volume of high-quality surgical delivery.As the UCP government pointed out, the health care system has, until now,...
Apr 07, 2025
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Local Sports
U19 and U16
Central Alberta Fire female football kicks off third season
The Central Alberta Fire, the region's only all-female football program, has returned for its third season this summer.The Fire, who are split into two teams of U19 and U16, kicked off the season on Saturday with their third annual jamboree.At The Dome Red Deer, they hosted multiple female football teams from across th...
Apr 05, 2025
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APRIL 4-6
Lacombe swim club competing in unique lifesaving sport championship
Lacombe's Sea Lions swim club is joining over 350 athletes to compete at the 2025 Alberta and Northwest Territories Pool Lifesaving Championships and Junior Games this weekend. From April 4-6, the annual competition will take place at Calgary's Brookfield Residential YMCA at Seton. Lifesaving Sport is a unique program ...
Apr 04, 2025
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Hockey is for everyone
Team Jigger Sledge Hockey receives equipment donation from NHLPA Goals & Dreams
The National Hockey League Players' Association Goals & Dreams fund has made a generous donation to the Lacombe-based Team Jigger Foundation Sledge Hockey Program.The program recently received 10 brand new sets of sledge hockey equipment from the NHLPA, which will go towards helping kids get involved in the sport f...
Apr 04, 2025
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Canada
Leaders take their campaigns to Western Canada as federal election nears midpoint
The leaders of the top three federal parties were campaigning Tuesday in Western Canada, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to crack down on offshore tax loopholes by appointing a tax task force.The Conservatives said the task force would be asked to make the rules simpler and more fair and would ensur...
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B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says guardianship law 'opaque,' lacks oversight
British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the province is the only place that she's aware of in Canada that allows people to be detained by the state without explicit legal authority, timelines or oversight. Kasari Govender says B.C.'s approach to holding people under the Adult Guardianship Act is discriminator...
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'Sign of hope' for endangered killer whales as centre confirms newborn calf
The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre says in a Facebook post that biologist Mark Malleson encountered J-pod, part of the larger population of southern resident killer ...
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Rise in asylum seekers to Canada as migrants' protected status set to expire in U.S.
MONTREAL - Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal. The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expir...
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Aviation consortium celebrates first piloted hydrogen-powered flight
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based aviation consortium says it is celebrating the first ever piloted hydrogen-powered helicopter flight, calling it a "milestone in sustainable aviation." Canadian Advanced Air Mobility says its national board member Unither Bioélectronique completed the experimental flight a...
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U.S. trade representative faces pushback from lawmakers over Trump's global tariffs
WASHINGTON - With a fresh round of U.S. tariffs set to hit the world Wednesday, the United States trade representative faced pushback today from lawmakers worried about the fallout from President Donald Trump's efforts to realign global trade. Jamieson Greer faced questions from the Senate finance committee about how T...
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World
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches Senate primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP's most contentious and expensive contests of 2026. Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump, announced his decision T...
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Judge rejects new trials for 2 convicted of human smuggling in death of family of 4 from India
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim dec...
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A Florida man is executed for killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on a lunch break
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, authorities said. In a fi...
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