Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

A stalwart community agency in Red Deer for the last 37 years may be at risk of not staying afloat. Turning Point Society of Alberta shared on social media Wednesday it is losing all of its provincial...

A judge is expected to decide today whether a special court review of a proposed Alberta referendum question on separation should go ahead.Alberta's chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, referred t...

A travelling panel collecting public feedback on Alberta's grievances with Ottawa is set to make its third summer town hall stop tonight.Premier Danielle Smith and 15 other members of her Alberta Next...

The City of Red Deer confirms a brief power outage this morning affected roughly 850 customers including both residential and commercial.Although the city did not say which neighbourhoods were affecte...

Elections Canada is reporting an unofficial total of 14,454 electors who voted in advance for the federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot.There are 84,515 electors listed, according to Elections C...

OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu are meeting with canola groups this afternoon following China's announcement that it will hit Canada with ...

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for Red Deer and the surrounding area.Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorm...

The union representing around 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants has signalled its intent to strike Saturday. Flight attendants have issued 72-hour strike notice and could walk off the job at 12:58 a...

OTTAWA - News publishers say the AI-generated summaries that now top many Google search results are cutting into their online traffic - and experts are still flagging concerns about the summaries' acc...

VICTORIA - The head of the Canada's police chiefs association says they are guided by "outdated and inadequate" laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer r...