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Scheer cautions against internal fighting in speech in Conservative heartland
CALGARY - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has dismissed those calling for him to step down after last month's election loss as elites and "talking heads" who know he'll never rel...
Nov 30, 2019
City, Chamber applaud new property tax incentives for municipalities
The City of Red Deer and Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce are applauding the province's plan to expand property tax incentives given to municipalities this year.On Wednesday, Municipal Affair...
Nov 30, 2019 Minister of Municipal Affairs Kaycee Madu announces expanded property tax incentives for municipalities. (Municipal Affairs)
Activist says RCMP profile about her is 'kind of creepy and unsettling'
OTTAWA - An activist concerned about mining-industry abuses found it "kind of creepy and unsettling" to recently learn the RCMP compiled a six-page profile of her shortly...
Nov 30, 2019
B.C. RCMP announce charges in 1993 homicide of 23-year-old Vicki Black
VANCOUVER - The RCMP in British Columbia say a man is in custody and facing a murder charge in the homicide of a 23-year-old woman in Vancouver in 1993. The Mounties announced in a news release Friday...
Nov 29, 2019
Wexit Alberta rally in Red Deer Saturday
Hundreds are expected to attend a rally in Red Deer this weekend to learn more about Alberta's separation movement.Wexit Alberta is hosting its third rally in Red Deer since August of this year, insid...
Nov 29, 2019 Peter Downing (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Smile Cookie Campaign raises over $40,000 for Reading College
Central Albertans stepped-up in a big way once again this year to help support the annual Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Campaign. Officials with the Foundation for Red Deer Public Schools say the September...
Nov 29, 2019 Elvy Goring, program co-ordinator, helps graduates of this year's Reading College program with making their own Tim Hortons Smile Cookies on Friday. (rdnewsNOW / Sheldon Spackman)
Saturday gala celebrating female hockey in Red Deer
The second annual Sutter Fund Female Hockey Gala goes this weekend at the Learning Commons at Red Deer College. Event co-chair Tracy Burghardt says the fundraiser supports eight Red Deer Minor Hockey ...
Nov 29, 2019 (Sutter Fund Female Hockey Gala)
Compensate woman detained in Montreal handrail dispute, Supreme Court orders
OTTAWA - A Quebec police officer stepped over the line when he detained a woman for refusing to hold onto an escalator handrail, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a scathing ruling on Friday that al...
Nov 29, 2019
Panel created by Quebec government says access to assisted death should be expanded
QUEBEC - A panel of experts is recommending the Quebec government expand access to medical aid in dying. In recommendations made public today, the group said people should be allowed to make advance d...
Nov 29, 2019
Jurors in Bebawi trial hear ex-SNC president approved yacht for dictator's son
MONTREAL - The trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive heard Friday that the accused told an RCMP officer the gift of a luxury yacht to the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadh...
Nov 29, 2019