Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Five players from Canada's 2018 world junior team have taken leaves of absence from their professional hockey clubs amid a report that five members of that roster have been asked to surrender to polic...

A captain with Edmonton Fire Rescue Services has been charged with a series of child sexual exploitation offences.The charges were the result of an investigation by ALERT's internet child exploitation...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company ...

VICTORIA - The BC Coroners Service says there were 2,511 suspected illicit drug deaths last year, the highest annual toll ever recorded. Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says close to 14,000 people have di...

OTTAWA - A judge's ruling that the federal Liberals were unjustified in using emergency law to quell a weeks-long protest in Ottawa has left the administrator of a downtown church feeling the court di...

OTTAWA, ON - The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate at five per cent Wednesday and signalled it has begun discussing when it should start cutting rates."With overall demand in the economy no lo...

UPDATE: Jan. 24, 2024. 11:40 .M. Blackfalds RCMP are clear from the collision on Highway 2A at Township Road 392 and normal traffic flow has resumed. Mounties say a follow up release with additional d...

EDMONTON - Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says former U.S. president Donald Trump is completely in his own world, and if he makes it back to the White House it could spell trouble for Canad...

Red Deer city council got through their first day deliberating the 2024 budget on Tuesday, with a focus on depleting funds in reserves, amendments to information technology (IT) and legal costs, and h...

Jocelyn Peterman and Team Lawes didn't reach the heights they'd hoped for at this past week's Grand Slam of Curling in Red Deer, but it was still a treat for the hometown curler to compete in front of...