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Red Deer and Area

OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER
Students' Association for Red Deer Polytechnic joins call to province for increased funding
Post-secondary students across Alberta have made a collective call to the Government of Alberta to increase base funding, including the Students' Association of Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), whose institution is facing a $10 million deficit for the upcoming school year. On Feb. 11, more than a dozen students' association...
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April 2020 Incident
Trial dates set for three of four charged in Innisfail murder
Trial dates have been set for three of four people charged in relation to the 2020 homicide of 38-year-old Blackfalds resident, Ryan James Gudwer. Thomas Jeffrey Houle, 28, Amber Loretta Knickle, 25, and Mathieu Bilodeau, 46, are scheduled for trial in Red Deer Court of Justice from July 6-10, 2026. The fourth individu...
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January 2024 Incident
Preliminary hearing scheduled for man charged in central Alberta homicide
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a man charged in a central Alberta murder last year. 26-year-old Chervaine Saddleback, a resident of Maskwacis, AB, is scheduled to find out in Wetaskiwin Court of Justice on July 29, 2025, if his case has enough evidence to go to trial. He was arrested by the RCMP Major Cri...
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Energy
Alberta oil company fined $15K for not reporting release of toxic sour gas
An Alberta oil and gas company has been fined $15,000 for failing to report a potentially lethal amount of hydrogen sulphide, or sour gas, had been released into the atmosphere.The Alberta Energy Regulator says a tank at a Mcland Resources work site near the hamlet of Tees, northeast of Red Deer, ruptured in 2023.The t...
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Alberta

PROVINCE
Alberta to host three major international sport events and two national championships
Alberta's government announced that the province is hosting three major international sport events and two national championships over the next two months.-READ: Applications open for Major Sport Event grant program-The province has committed more than $440,000 through the Major Sport Event grant program to support the...
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Newborn bitten by dog in Alberta home dies in hospital: RCMP
ENTWISTLE, Alta. - RCMP say a two-week-old who was bitten by a dog at a home west of Edmonton has died in hospital. The baby was airlifted to the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton after the attack Sunday in the hamlet of Entwistle, Alta. Police say the infant died despite the best efforts of medical professional...
Feb 17, 2025
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EDUCATION
Alberta accelerating 11 new schools across province with $8.6B funding
Alberta's government has sped up 11 previously announced school projects in the Calgary Metropolitan Region and Edmonton from the design stage to full construction funding.-READ: Alberta premier calls for stricter immigration, reveals $8.6B education boost-The province announced $8.6 billion to accelerate school constr...
Feb 15, 2025
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Canada
60th anniversary for the Canadian flag on February 15
The Canadian flag is making a milestone this year. This Flag Day, February 15, will mark 60 years since the Maple Leaf flag first flew on Parliament Hill. According to the federal government's website, the Union Jack was Canada's first flag. The Canadian Red Ensign was then used, but there were two different designs. O...
Feb 15, 2025
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Leak of containment pond at site of Yukon mine disaster impacting creek: officials
Officials in Yukon say they believe about 19 million litres of cyanide-contaminated water leaked from a containment pond at the site of a mining disaster last year before the problem was spotted and the water diluted. Erin Dowd, director of technical services for the Mines Ministry, says the cyanide-contaminated water ...
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Toronto plane crash adds to recent accidents that may rattle travellers: psychologist
With a plane sitting upside-down on the tarmac at the Toronto airport, Anne Robinson remained pragmatic about the slim chance she could end up in a similar crash. "Deep down, it does (scare me), but it's not going to stop me," Robinson said Tuesday after her flight out of Toronto Pearson International Airport...
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Analyst: Gusts, landing apparatus may have contributed to Pearson plane crash
A veteran aviator and flight instructor of commercial passenger jets says the "variable" gusty winds in Toronto as well as possible mechanical issues with the landing gear may have contributed to the Delta Air Lines crash at Pearson Airport Monday. Kit Darby, a U.S.-based consultant with more than 20,000 hour...
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Judge rules RCMP remarks racist, but B.C. pipeline protesters' convictions will stand
A B.C. Supreme Court judge says members of the RCMP made "grossly offensive, racist and dehumanizing" remarks about Indigenous women who were arrested in 2021 during a blockade of Coastal GasLink pipeline construction. Justice Michael Tammen says the state misconduct findings don't warrant a stay of proceedin...
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Judge rejects sexsomnia defence, finds Manitoba man guilty of child sex assault
WINNIPEG - A judge has rejected the defence of a Manitoba man who claimed he was suffering from sexsomnia, a rare sleep disorder, when he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy. Provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie found Clinton Muskego guilty of sexual assault and sexual interference for touching the boy at a Winnip...
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Inuit call on PM to step in as child funding program approaches March end date
OTTAWA - The head of Canada's national Inuit organization is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step in to save a program that helps fund services for Inuit kids. In a letter sent to Trudeau last week, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed called on the prime minister to "clearly signal" his &...
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