Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Tansi: International Gathering breathes new life into Indigenous languages
To speak a language is to have it be heard.Like so many other Indigenous languages, Cree, or Nehiyawak, and the knowledge of it was stripped from so many.Meaning 'Hello, how are you?,' "Tansi," said J...
Oct 15, 2022
Alberta RCMP Major Crimes investigating homicide in Red Deer
The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit is investigating a homicide in Red Deer this week.On Oct. 13, 2022, at approximately 02:33 a.m., Red Deer RCMP received a report of an unconscious male in the area o...
Oct 14, 2022
Rotary Club of Red Deer hopes to replace stolen plaques from downtown clock for 100th anniversary
The Rotary Club of Red Deer says the best gift for their 100th year anniversary would be to fully replace all stolen plaques from the downtown Rotary clock. The service club was chartered in February ...
Oct 14, 2022
Second annual Powwow Times International Gathering starts Friday in Red Deer
The second annual Powwow Times International Gathering is this weekend, Oct. 14-16, at Westerner Park.The pow wow's theme this year is revitalization and preservation of Indigenous languages.Accompany...
Oct 14, 2022
CP Holiday Train to roll through central Alberta this year
The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will return to the rails of central Alberta this season on its first cross-continent tour in three years, following virtual concerts in the pandemic years of 20...
Oct 14, 2022
Provinces oppose federal use of police resources
The Alberta government says provinces have joined together at the 2022 Meeting of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Justice and Public Safety to discuss the federal governm...
Oct 14, 2022
Carbon price rebates to be in Albertans' accounts on Friday
Residents of the three Prairie provinces and Ontario will receive their quarterly federal carbon price rebate payments tomorrow.The rebates are coming as a new Leger poll suggests residents of the fou...
Oct 13, 2022
Smith's discrimination remark making Alberta an international embarrassment: NDP
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith has made the province an international embarrassment by proclaiming those who didn't get vaccinated during COVID-19 endured the w...
Oct 13, 2022
A look at school enrolment around central Alberta
School enrolment numbers are in from around central Alberta.For the most part, student enrolment is up."The increase in enrolment in Red Deer Public is welcomed news," said Red Deer Public Schools Sup...
Oct 13, 2022
Charges laid in Ottawa under new crime of harassing a health worker
OTTAWA - A 58-year-old Ontario man is facing charges under a new law against intimidating a health-care worker. Ottawa police say there is a warrant out for the arrest of Louis Mertzelos in relation t...
Oct 13, 2022