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Registration for fall arts and recreation programming begins August 16
Red Deerians can prepare to sign up for fall arts and recreation programs next week. New program options are viewable this Thursday, August 11, on My Activity Guide, and registration will begin on Tue...
Aug 09, 2022
Alberta awards prize to essay positing sexes unequal, women pick babies over careers
EDMONTON - Alberta's women's issues minister is distancing herself from the judging committee that gave a $200 prize to an essay that says the sexes are not equal and women should pick babies over car...
Aug 09, 2022
Alberta awards prize to essay that argues women should pick babies over careers
EDMONTON - Alberta has awarded a prize to an essayist who argues the sexes are not equal and that women should pick babies over careers to avoid the province having to import more foreigners and risk ...
Aug 09, 2022
Jack Hanratty elevated to full-time coach of Canadian women's rugby sevens team
After almost 10 months in an interim role, Jack Hanratty has been appointed head coach of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team. Hanratty was an assistant coach with the women's team for sevens event...
Aug 09, 2022
Central Alberta vaulter competing at FEI World Championships
A young equestrian athlete from central Alberta is competing at the 2022 FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark.Averill Saunders, 18, of Sundre, is the youngest Canadian vaulter at the competitio...
Aug 09, 2022
Canada Summer Games Day 2: Didsbury swimmer wins bronze
Another local athlete has won a medal at the Canada Summer Games in Niagara.Swimmer Wesley Wilks of Didsbury earned bronze in the 50 metre Speacial Olympics breaststroke, one of nine medals for Team A...
Aug 09, 2022
Blue Jays sign veteran outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to one-year deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to a one-year major-league contract. The 32-year-old was released by Boston on Thursday. He has a .210 average with 19 doubles...
Aug 09, 2022
Man convicted of fatally shooting his 2 daughters in Texas
DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in their killings. Yaser Sa...
Aug 09, 2022
Man at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert a convicted child sex offender: records
REGINA - Court records show a man believed to be at the centre of an Amber Alert for two missing children is a convicted child sex offender. The documents say 50-year-old Benjamin Martin Moore, now of...
Aug 09, 2022
Jury picked in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - After questions about guns, politics and COVID-19, a jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitm...
Aug 09, 2022