Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

A former employee working at the Lamont Health Care Centre has admitted to taking photos of three long-term care residents back in 2019.Kathryn Starzynski plead guilty on December 9, 2022, to taking p...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith says she is sorry if anyone misinterpreted her remarks this week to conclude she was equating Ottawa's treatment of Alberta to the systemic and horrific abuse of Cana...

AHS has announced it has launched an updated respiratory assessment tool to provide Albertans - including families with young children - with guidance to manage a wide range of respiratory illnesses, ...

The Red Deer RCMP recently welcomed a new member, Nyack, to their Police Dog Services Unit.On Wednesday, the two-year-old German Shepherd ran around the downtown detachment, over chairs and under tabl...

After consulting and engaging rural Albertans, businesses, and Indigenous communities over the span of a year, the province has set out the framework for a new Economic Development in Rural Alberta Pl...

The yearly Red Deer Christmas lights tour is back, courtesy of Jim and A.J. Elliott.Jim, a former City employee, started the tour back in 1975.As the Elliotts write in their guide: "We hope this Chris...

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB - An RCMP detachment in northern Alberta is offering some tips on what to watch for when donating to charity campaigns over the holidays.The Grande Prairie RCMP says if you chose to...

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre told his Conservative members of Parliament today that it's their job to stand on the side of "common people." He delivered the message to the Tory caucus in Ottawa as the Ho...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has lots of reasons to be losing sleep. Soaring living costs have Canadians lined up at food banks. The federal Liberals are anticipating a possible recessi...

For 25 years now, Dale Devereaux of Century 21 been funding holiday dinner hampers, filled with all the necessities.Devereaux was at Sobey's South Red Deer on Tuesday to do a handover of this year's f...