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Alberta to require parental consent for name, pronoun changes in schools
Premier Danielle Smith has announced a raft of changes affecting transgender Albertans, including requiring parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at sch...
Jan 31, 2024
A list of Alberta's new policies on gender and sexuality
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has posted a video to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announcing several new policies and guidelines dealing with gender and sexuality. Here is a l...
Jan 31, 2024
Oriole Park students help create adaptations of Kerry Wood stories in new literacy project
Oriole Park students are embarking on a new literacy project to adapt the books of Red Deer author Kerry Wood. On Wednesday, students gathered in the gymnasium to learn about their role in the project...
Jan 31, 2024
RDP Athletics - Athletes of the Week for Jan. 29, 2024
Loami Rautenbach Hometown: Red Deer, AB Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2nd year)Loami Rautenbach and the Queens Indoor Track team had a very successful season debut this past Saturday at the Kinsmen ...
Jan 31, 2024
Lacombe's Rudolph and Team Canada fall in Bronze Medal matchup at Olympic Winter Youth Games
Lacombe, Alberta's Daxon Rudolph and Team Canada are fourth place finishers at the 2024 Olympic Winter Youth Games in Gangwon, Republic of Korea.Canada lost 5-4 in a shootout Tuesday night to Finland ...
Jan 31, 2024
Water-sharing negotiations to start this week in Alberta, municipalities doing dought planning
Alberta's Drought Command Team has received the go-ahead to negotiate with major water license holders to create water-sharing agreements in the Red Deer River, Bow River, and Old Man River basins. Pr...
Jan 31, 2024
Newly crowned UFC champion Raquel Pennington shoots back at Sean Strickland
Newly crowned UFC bantamweight champion Raquel (Rocky) Pennington shot back at former middleweight title-holder Sean Strickland on Wednesday for sexist, demeaning comments at UFC 297 in Toronto. Stric...
Jan 31, 2024
First participant of Red Deer's Drug Treatment Court graduates with new life
It was a full courtroom on Monday at the Red Deer Court of Justice, not for trial, but for triumph. Those in the seats cried, not tears of sadness, but of joy. And the future of the man who stood at t...
Jan 31, 2024
CP NewsAlert: Jury, coroner make recommendations in Saskatchewan mass killing inquest
MELFORT, Sask. - The jury at a coroner's inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation has made 14 recommendations. They suggest improvements to locate offenders who are unlawfully at la...
Jan 31, 2024
Possible sanctions beyond case for hockey players facing 2018 sex assault charges
A Canadian lawyer says the five players from Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team facing sexual assault charges also have the potential to encounter legal issues with their respective NHL teams as w...
Jan 31, 2024