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Tens of thousands of families have applied for federal child dental benefit: Gould
OTTAWA - Social Development Minister Karina Gould says 35,000 people have applied for the new child dental benefit since the program opened a week ago. Gould was responding to an opposition question i...
Dec 07, 2022
Central Alberta Media Productions hosting free Christmas community get-together
Central Alberta Media Productions (CAMP) is hosting its first Christmas C.A.M.P. Out Dec. 9 in downtown Red Deer.CAMP is a new local non-profit, founded earlier this year with the purpose of helping l...
Dec 07, 2022
Government says mountain pine beetle continues to decline in Alberta
The Alberta government says population surveys indicate a sharp decline in trees killed by mountain pine beetle for the fourth consecutive year.Officials say beetle populations in Alberta have decline...
Dec 07, 2022
Media shunning transparency law due to worsening delays, journalist says
OTTAWA - Veteran journalist Dean Beeby says reporters are abandoning the federal Access to Information Act as a research tool because turnaround times are terrible and getting worse. The access law al...
Dec 07, 2022
ASIRT investigation continues into RCMP officer-involved shooting causing death in central Alberta
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says it's continuing its investigation into an RCMP officer-involved shooting causing death in central Alberta.On Dec. 1, the Alberta Serious Inciden...
Dec 07, 2022
Alberta women’s shelters turn away thousands due to lack of space and staff; report
EDMONTON, AB - A new report shows emergency shelters in Alberta haven't been able to provide refuge to thousands of women who were fleeing domestic violence due to a lack of space.The data, which runs...
Dec 07, 2022
Red Deer County gives $300,000 to community facility upgrades
A number of Red Deer County community facilities are to benefit from an incoming round of Rural Community Facility Capital Assistance Grant dollars. Contained within the Support to Rural Community Fac...
Dec 07, 2022
Quebec's auditor finds Education Department ill-prepared for pivot to online learning
Quebec's auditor general says the province's Education Department was ill-prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shutter in March 2020 and it still does not have a complete picture of t...
Dec 07, 2022
FBI got tip about shooting suspect a day before 2021 arrest
DENVER (AP) - Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI's radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members and blow up th...
Dec 07, 2022
ST Math partnership helping improve outcomes in Wolf Creek Public Schools
Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) has partnered with a company out of the US to provide a math resource for schools and it's already having great success in the classroom. Officials with WCPS say numer...
Dec 07, 2022