Going for Gold
Jocelyn Peterman set to compete at 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Former Red Deerian Jocelyn Peterman and her partner Brett Gallant will compete at the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Summerside, P.E.I. beginning on Sunday.The pair, who now call Chestermere, Alta. home, will take part in the six-day tournament that concludes on Friday for a chance to represent the...
Mar 15, 2025
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election yet to be called
Conservative Party, People's Party choose candidates for new federal Red Deer riding
Burton Bailey will be the next Conservative Party of Canada candidate for the new re-aligned riding of Red Deer in the next federal election, according to a newsletter sent out this week by the party to members. Bailey, who has served for several years as executive assistant to Red Deer-North MLA Adriana Lagrange, was ...
Mar 15, 2025
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election yet to be called
Conservative Party, People's Party choose candidates for new federal Red Deer riding
Mar 15, 2025
new 'everything red deer podcast' episode
Sylvan Lake RCMP first in central Alberta to get body cams
local man seeking to prevent closure
Judge's decision pending in overdose prevention site injunction case
Mar 15, 2025
JAN. 15 NUMBERS
Pigeon Lake residents pocket $100,050 in lotto win
Mar 14, 2025
Red Deer and Area
election yet to be called
Conservative Party, People's Party choose candidates for new federal Red Deer riding
Burton Bailey will be the next Conservative Party of Canada candidate for the new re-aligned riding of Red Deer in the next federal election, according to a newsletter sent out this week by the party to members. Bailey, who has served for several years as executive assistant to Red Deer-North MLA Adriana Lagrange, was ...
Mar 15, 2025
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local man seeking to prevent closure
Judge's decision pending in overdose prevention site injunction case
A Constitution-based injunction hearing began at the Red Deer Justice Centre on Friday, seeking to prevent the closure of the local overdose prevention site (OPS). Opened in October 2018, it was last fall the provincial government announced its funding would not be renewed and therefore it would close by March 31, 2025...
Mar 15, 2025
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JAN. 15 NUMBERS
Pigeon Lake residents pocket $100,050 in lotto win
Two Pigeon Lake residents are now $100,050 richer after securing an EXTRA win in the Jan. 15 draw. Helene and David K. play WESTERN 649 and EXTRA twice a week and often check their tickets together. "I kept looking up each number and they matched one by one," Helene said. "I was so excited but I waited u...
Mar 14, 2025
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HALF OF RECOMMENDED RATE
Red Deer County council approves modest base pay increase for mayor and councillors
Red Deer County council has unanimously approved a 4.5 per cent increase to the base pay of its mayors and councillors, to go into effect for the next sitting council following the October municipal election.The Council Remuneration Committee initially recommended a nine per cent increase to the base rate of pay, as we...
Mar 14, 2025
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Alberta
Workers represented by United Steelworkers ratify new contract at CPKC
Canadian Pacific Kansas City says about 600 workers represented by the United Steelworkers union have ratified a new four-year collective agreement.The union represents clerical and intermodal employees at the railway in Canada.CPKC chief executive Keith Creel says the agreement helps provide long-term labour stability...
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Prevent the spread
Measles outbreak identified in northern Alberta
The Government of Alberta is alerting the public of a measles outbreak in the northern part of the province in an effort to halt further spread of the disease.As of March 13, health officials have confirmed six cases in the province but were all a part of the same household. Despite that, it raises concerns about the p...
Mar 15, 2025
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PROVINCIAL POLITICS
Premier Smith says Carney should immediately call election
Premier Danielle Smith says new prime minister Mark Carney should immediately call a general election as she argued his cabinet remains as hostile to Alberta as the one assembled by his predecessor. "I am extremely concerned that this cabinet includes most of same ministers responsible for the most damaging govern...
Mar 14, 2025
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IN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL
Alberta to begin collecting bitumen royalties in-kind
The Government of Alberta has announced it will now collect bitumen royalties in-kind (BRIK) in addition to conventional royalties in-kind (CORIK) in an effort to maximize resource revenue. The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission (APMC), the province's commercial oil and gas agency, can now combine conventional and ...
Mar 14, 2025
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Local Sports
7-3
McKenna leads Tigers to victory over Rebels
The Red Deer Rebels went up against the Medicine Hat Tigers high-powered offence and struggled to slow them down falling 7-3 on the road at Co-op Place.Phenom Gavin McKenna led the tabbies to victory with an impressive seven point performance, including three goals and four assists. Tigers captain Oasiz Wiesblatt also ...
Mar 16, 2025
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Going for Gold
Jocelyn Peterman set to compete at 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Former Red Deerian Jocelyn Peterman and her partner Brett Gallant will compete at the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Summerside, P.E.I. beginning on Sunday.The pair, who now call Chestermere, Alta. home, will take part in the six-day tournament that concludes on Friday for a chance to represent the...
Mar 15, 2025
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Media Excellence
Longtime Red Deer sports journalist honoured with WHL's Bob Ridley Award
The Western Hockey League honoured local sports journalist Greg Meachem, who was named the 2024-25 recipient of the league's Bob Ridley Award for Media Excellence.His wife Brenda, and many other family members were in attendance on Friday night prior to the Rebels game against the Prince Albert Raiders to accept the aw...
Mar 15, 2025
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Canada
Poilievre says he'll repeal carbon price law, including the industrial charge
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that he will repeal the entire carbon price law if elected, including on businesses and the industrial charge. On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney began the process to end the consumer carbon price on things like gasoline. The order-in-council says the fee will be re...
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Prime Minister Carney kicks off international trip in France
PARIS - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises. Making opening remarks in Paris before a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Carney stressed both countries' shared values of sovereignty, solidarity and sustainab...
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In the news today: Mark Carney's move to kill carbon price now official
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney's move to kill carbon price now official but debate over it not dead Prime Minister Mark Carney's theatrical document signing to eliminate the consumer carbon price on Friday has done little to end the political furor over ...
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Quebec byelection: electors head to polls in Terrebonne riding northeast of Montreal
MONTREAL - Voters will go to the polls today in a riding northeast of Montreal to replace former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon. The former high-profile cabinet minister in François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec quit politics in September 2024. The Terrebonne riding had been held by Fitzgibbon sin...
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Polytechnique Montréal receives $50 million gift to create disruptive innovation hub
MONTREAL - A Quebec-born businessman and philanthropist who is donating $50 million to a Montreal university to establish an institute dedicated to "disruptive innovation" says it has never been more important to invest in homegrown talent. Pierre Lassonde's donation to Polytechnique Montréal, to be of...
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Canadians in several cities join 'Tesla Takedown' protests against Musk, Trump
SURREY, B.C. - Canadians in several cities have joined a series of "Tesla Takedown" protests happening across the United States and parts of Europe. Protesters say they have been moved to act by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's "interfering" in politics and his role advising U.S. President Donald Trump, who ha...
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World
A judge ordered a Brown University professor not be deported. She was sent back to Lebanon anyway.
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported, after he ordered that she not be removed until he could hear her case. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had been granted the visa on March 11 and arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, according to a complaint...
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Trump says he will talk to Putin on Tuesday as he pushes for end to Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as he pushes to end the war in Ukraine. The U.S. leader disclosed the upcoming conversation to reporters while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on Sunday evening. "We will see if we have so...
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US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after airstrikes target rebels in Yemen
CAIRO (AP) - The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels on one of the world's busiest shipping corridors. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the overnight U.S. strikes killed a...
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