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ICYMI - June 29, 2018
A look back at some of the biggest Red Deer and area news stories for the week of June 29, 2018.
Jun 29, 2018
Mayor's Garden Party
Red Deer mayor Tara Veer hosted her annual Garden Party at City Hall Park on June 27, 2018.
Jun 29, 2018
Another motorcycle maker considers moving output overseas
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - A Minnesota-based company says it’s considering moving production of some motorcycles out of the country because of European tariffs, just days after Harley-Davidson announce...
Jun 29, 2018
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Tory cabinet criticized for lack of diversity
TORONTO - Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government had barely been in power for an hour Friday before it was under attack about the perceived lack of diversity in its cabinet. Shortly befor...
Jun 29, 2018
'Permanent' cease-fire begins in South Sudan's civil war
JOHANNESBURG - A cease-fire began at midnight Saturday in South Sudan as a weary nation wondered whether this latest attempt to end a five-year civil war would hold. President Salva Kiir and rival Rie...
Jun 29, 2018

Health ministers meeting in Winnipeg want national pharmacare, but who pays?
WINNIPEG - Canada’s health ministers say they are moving closer to a national pharmacare program, but questions remain over who will pay for it and how broad it will be. After meeting with her p...
Jun 29, 2018
Quebec weighing legal options as judge temporarily suspends face-covering law
NEW YORK - The Quebec government will wait for its lawyers to study a court decision this week that temporarily suspended a law banning people from covering their faces when receiving or giving a publ...
Jun 29, 2018

Driver killed in crash while fleeing police
A man who was fleeing police on Friday afternoon died after crashing into another vehicle. Red Deer RCMP say the incident began around 11:30 a.m. when they responded to a report of an erratic driver i...
Jun 29, 2018

Federal judge blocks Kentucky's Medicaid work requirements
FRANKFORT, Ky. - A federal judge says Kentucky can’t require poor people to get a job to keep their Medicaid benefits, chastising President Donald Trump’s administration for rubber-stampin...
Jun 29, 2018
Conviction tossed for man accused in Lil Wayne bus shooting
ATLANTA - Georgia’s highest court has reversed the convictions of a man who pleaded guilty to a gang charge after he was accused of shooting into rapper Lil Wayne’s tour buses on a Georgia...
Jun 29, 2018