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Blackfalds town council approves floating property tax rate for 2025
Blackfalds' town council has approved the 2025 Property Tax Rate Bylaw at a floating rate, which is determined by the increase seen in property assessments. The 2025 assessments (based on 2024) showed that in the area of inflation, the residential tax based increased by $82.9 million or 6.11 per cent due to increasing ...
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Optimist Club of Red Deer donates refurbished bikes to Fairview Elementary
The Optimist Club of Red Deer has donated refurbished bikes to elementary school students in the Red Deer Public School Division.In total, the Club donated 67 bikes to students and families in need who attend Fairview Elementary School."This generous donation from the Optimist Club truly means the world to our stu...
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Over $100,000 raised
Community rallies behind family of Josh Reimer, a local teacher who tragically passed away
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relationship not a one-way street
Podcast: Red Deerians working hard to steward planet as Earth Day circles around
JUNE 14
Ride the MEGABike this summer to support BBBS of Lacombe and District
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APR. 26 CELEBRATION
50 years of early learning and child care to be celebrated at RDP
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Red Deer and Area
Over $100,000 raised
Community rallies behind family of Josh Reimer, a local teacher who tragically passed away
The central Alberta community has shown up for the family of Josh Reimer amidst an unfathomable tragedy.Two days ago, his family's life was flipped upside down when he died in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 20, south of Bentley.Both drivers were taken to hospital with serious injuries and Reimer, who was just 29-ye...
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JUNE 14
Ride the MEGABike this summer to support BBBS of Lacombe and District
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lacombe and District invites the community to ride the MEGABike this June, a fundraiser in support of the organization. MEGABike is a 29-seat bike that riders will pedal through some of Lacombe's most beautiful and historic streets on June 14. The 30-45 minute route will feature downtown mur...
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APR. 26 CELEBRATION
50 years of early learning and child care to be celebrated at RDP
Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) celebrates 50 years of impact through its early learning and child care programming this weekend. RDP has offered its early learning and child care certificate and diploma since 1975. Recently, it added two new workplace immersive programs, the workplace advancement specialization and the ear...
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Maskwacis student awarded Indigenous Scholarship from Alberta Blue Cross
Alberta Blue Cross has announced nine recipients of its 2025 Indigenous Scholarship program, including a resident of Maskwacis.Jolene Gopher, who attends Maskwacis Cultural College, is working on her Bachelor of Arts degree in the Cree language program.She is an active member in her community and helps make shirts and ...
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Federal Election 2025
unofficial results
Advance voter turnout up 25%, says Elections Canada
Advance polling in Canada's 2025 federal election is now over. Voters technically had until 6 p.m. Tuesday to vote, but had to do so on the final day at an Elections Canada office (not a regular polling station). Voters could also apply today to cast a ballot by mail.Otherwise, voters will have to cast their ballot on ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Election meet & greet for Red Deer residents and candidates on April 23
People who live in the federal riding of Red Deer are invited to a meet and greet with election candidates on Wednesday, April 23. The event, hosted by the Red Deer District Chamber, runs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Marquis Room at the Harvest Centre at Westerner Park. Per the Chamber: This event is intended to provide ...
Apr 22, 2025
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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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Alberta
PROVINCIAL
Ag societies, facing tough economy, receive $7.4M boost from Alberta government
Alberta's seven regional agricultural societies are receiving a one-time cash injection of over $7 million to face challenging economic conditions and plan ahead.Lethbridge and District Exhibition, Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede, Grande Prairie Regional Ag and Exhibition, and Red Deer's Westerner Park are among t...
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Provincial Politics
Former Alberta cabinet minister calls government health contract probe 'whitewashing'
A former Alberta cabinet minister says an investigation called by Premier Danielle Smith's government into multimillion-dollar health contracts looks like a ``whitewashing'' exercise. Peter Guthrie, now an Independent member of the legislature, says in a public letter, that among other problems, the terms of the third-...
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Medical
Primary Care Alberta launches New Parent and Newborn phone line
Primary Care Alberta's phone line for new parents has become a provincial service.The New Parent and Newborn Line was launched last month to allow parents and caregivers to contact registered nurses to get expert advice for the first two months after their baby's birth.Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange says the line ...
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MINISTER LOEWEN MISSION
Alberta attending assembly of International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation
Alberta is becoming the first North American member of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation, and Todd Loewen, Minister of Forestry and Parks, is visiting Qatar to make it official. While in Doha, Qatar, Loewen will attend the 71st General Assembly of the International Council for Game and Wildli...
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Local Sports
Red and White
Gard and Rudolph named to Team Canada at U18 World Championship
Hockey Canada announced Red Deer Rebels forward Matthew Gard and Lacombe native Daxon Rudolph have been named to the national team for the 2025 IIHF U18 Men's World Championship.They're two of 25 players selected to the roster that will look to defend Canada's gold medal victory in 2024. Gard and Rudolph were not on th...
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Begins Saturday
Peterman to compete for Canada at 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Former Red Deerian Jocelyn Peterman and her husband Brett Gallant will represent Canada at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.The pair, who now call Chestermere, Alta. home, will compete against the world's best at Willie O'Ree Place in Fredericton, N.B. beginning on Saturday.Their first matchup will be ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Fans can join 'Oil Country' on team bus to games 3 & 4
The Edmonton Oilers are inviting fans to take a bus from Red Deer and other municipalities to see games three and four against the Los Angeles Kings, April 25 and 27.The Kings currently lead the Oilers 1-0 in the opening round series of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.Game 2 goes Wednesday in L.A.The fan buses include round t...
Apr 22, 2025
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Canada
B.C. First Nation at UN calling for government help in battling toxic drug crisis
NEW YORK - Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation in British Columbia are at the United Nations headquarters in New York City calling for the provincial and Canadian governments to fund recovery beds and other supports in the battle against the toxic drug crisis. Chief Roger William with the Tsilhqot'in National Government ...
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Man given five months in U.S. jail for smuggling people across border from B.C.
SEATTLE - The U.S. District Attorney's office in Seattle says a 27-year-old man has been sentenced to five months in jail for helping smuggle eight Indian nationals across the border between British Columbia and Washington state. It says Rajat Rajat, an Indian citizen who lives in California, was indicted alongside thr...
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Supreme Court to review mandatory minimum sentence in prostitution case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to examine the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum sentence for purchasing sexual services from someone under age 18. The decision comes in a case involving police publishing fictitious online escort service ads. An undercover police officer told a man at least four ...
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CP NewsAlert: Quebec court overturns out-of-province tuition hike
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated the provincial government's tuition hike for out-of-province students. The ruling also overturns a new requirement that 80 per cent of out-of-province undergraduate students at English-language universities reach an intermediate level of proficiency in French by ...
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Supreme Court of Canada agrees to weigh in on B.C. First Nations' title dispute
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to weigh in on a dispute between First Nations that have overlapping land title claims in British Columbia. The overlapping claims involve the Gitanyow Nation, the Nisga'a Nation and the Tsetsaut Skii km Lax Ha Nation, and Canada's high court on Thursday agreed to hear appeals of ...
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Canada caught up in China-U.S. trade war as Trump claims fentanyl continues to flow
WASHINGTON - Pulling Canada into his trade war with China, U.S. President Donald Trump claims Chinese fentanyl continues to "pour" across both borders. Trump complained on social media today about Chinese airlines refusing to accept Boeing planes to protest his administration's massive tariffs on China. In hi...
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World
Texas lawmakers approve $1B private school voucher plan
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers on Thursday passed a $1 billion education bill that allows families to use public money to pay for private school tuition, a major victory for school voucher proponents nationwide that was cheered on by President Donald Trump. The measure won final approval from the state Senate and...
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Palestinian officials vote to create a vice presidency under aging leader Abbas
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestine Liberation Organization on Thursday announced the creation of a vice presidency under 89-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has not specified a successor. The PLO Central Council's decision, after a two-day meeting, came as Abbas seeks greater relevance and a role in postwar pla...
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Judge blocks parts of Trump's overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. President Donald Trump had called for that and other sweeping changes to U....
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