Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Red Deer still holding $9.6 million for RCMP retroactive pay contract increases
The City of Red Deer confirmed on Tuesday they are still holding $9.6 million in retroactive pay for the RCMP union settlement.At day two of the 2023-24 budget deliberations, administration and counci...
Dec 1, 2022
Canada-Morocco: Montreal's Moroccans cheering both teams in today's World Cup match
MONTREAL - Members of Montreal's Moroccan community are packing bars and cafs across the city today for the Canada-Morocco match at the World Cup in Qatar. The excitement will be particularly palpable...
Dec 1, 2022
Alberta premier rejects accusations her sovereignty bill is undemocratic power grab
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that a bill granting her and her cabinet sweeping powers to rewrite laws behind closed doors is an undemocratic, dangerous...
Nov 30, 2022
On Red Deer visit, NDP's Phillips lambastes Smith's Bill 1, as does Unifor
The provincial government is attempting to further clarify today what its latest piece of legislation will actually allow it to do.On Nov. 29, the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act -- als...
Nov 30, 2022
Ponoka, Red Deer, and Blackfalds RCMP on-scene with multiple collisions on QEII Highway near Red Deer
UPDATE:4:05 p.m. - RCMP advise that the QE II is now clear and normal traffic flow has resumed. Road conditions remain poor and motorists are advised to take precautions. ---Alberta RCMP Detachment an...
Nov 30, 2022
List of areas the Alberta government accuses Ottawa of overreaching
EDMONTON - When the Alberta legislature resumed sitting Tuesday, the first bill introduced by the United Conservative Party government was one aimed at shielding the province from federal laws it deem...
Nov 30, 2022
Legal experts say Ottawa unlikely to be 'main combatant' in Alberta sovereignty fight
CALGARY - Constitutional law experts say it's unlikely Ottawa will rush to fight Alberta over a proposed sovereignty bill that would give the provincial government new powers to resist what it conside...
Nov 30, 2022
Largest recorded Alberta earthquake probably natural, scientist says
EDMONTON - A geologist says the largest earthquake ever recorded in Alberta was probably due to natural causes. Rebecca Salvage of the University of Calgary says the 5.6-magnitude quake that rattled w...
Nov 30, 2022
Preliminary hearing scheduled for pair charged in central Alberta homicide
A three-day preliminary hearing has been scheduled next year for two men charged in the death of a young man in Maskwacis over the summer. Cole Gerald Cattleman, 25, and Chaz Joseph Cattleman, 22, bot...
Nov 30, 2022
Red Deer councillor proposes utility bill charge for snow removal
Councillor Victor Doerksen suggested adding a charge to resident utility bills as a way of increasing the City of Red Deer's snow removal budget at deliberations on Tuesday.Following resident feedback...
Nov 30, 2022