Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Red Deer RCMP share winter tire tips
The Red Deer RCMP Traffic Unit would like to remind residents that installing winter tires properly marked with the mountain and snowflake symbol, of the same size, speed rating, and load index on all...
Nov 5, 2024

Preparation for next president started months ago, Trudeau's cabinet says
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says the Trudeau government is in a better position to manage trade negotiations with the next American president than it was the last time it signed a de...
Nov 5, 2024

Town of Innisfail issues statement on passing of Councillor Don Harrison
A member of Innisfail town council, Councillor and former mayor Don Harrison, has died. Innisfail Mayor Jean Barclay shared that he passed on November 1. Harrison was a fourth-generation Innisfailian ...
Nov 4, 2024 Don Harrison (Supplied)

Conservatives are trying to loosen regulations on natural health products
OTTAWA - A Conservative MP wants Parliament to undo changes made by the Liberals last year that brought natural health products under the same regulations as pharmaceuticals. The new rules mean Health...
Nov 4, 2024

Red Deer's air cadets program celebrates 80th birthday
A city of Red Deer proclamation to declare Nov. 3-8, 2024 as Royal Canadian Air Cadet Week is giving the local squadron a spotlight to share their work with the public.Local air cadets, who are member...
Nov 4, 2024

'Beam of light that cut through injustice': Tributes for TRC chair Murray Sinclair
WINNIPEG - Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, died Monday in Winnipeg. He was 73. Here are some notable tributes to...
Nov 4, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Murray Sinclair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair, dies at 73
WINNIPEG - Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools, has died at the age of 73. Niigaan Sinclair says his father died this morning in a Winnipeg hosp...
Nov 4, 2024

Poilievre asks premiers to axe their sales taxes on new homes worth under $1 million
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to the provinces' premiers, asking them to eliminate their sales taxes on new homes that are under $1 million. It follows Poilievre's own pled...
Nov 4, 2024

B.C. port lockout to begin as no deal reached in labour dispute with foremen union
VANCOUVER - The provincewide lockout against a union of more than 700 foremen at all British Columbia ports is expected to begin at 8 a.m. The BC Maritime Employers Association has said the lockout is...
Nov 4, 2024

'Canada is watching': New northern Alberta police service trying to lead by example
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - On the second floor of a building where most offices are without doors, the ceilings hang low and the carpets don't match, the chief of Grande Prairie's new police force gets d...
Nov 4, 2024