Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Feeling like taking a unique kind of stroll on Thursday?Are you a man with important women in your life?If so, consider the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event tomorrow, hosted by The Outreach Centre.The e...

EDMONTON, AB - The Government of Alberta has announced plans to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II and to mourn her passing. She passed away on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at age 96 at Balmoral Ca...

Time has been extended to help support a 50/50 and silent auction benefiting the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre (CASASC).The dates were extended as CASASC's poker rally event with UBAKA...

Employers in Canada's Prairie Region expect a positive hiring climate for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey.The Prairie Region includes t...

OTTAWA - The bells at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa will toll on Monday as the nation bids farewell to the late Queen Elizabeth. Memorial events in the capital will recognize the queen's long life...

LONDON - People joined a lineup that stretched for kilometres along the south bank of the River Thames today to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth as she began lying in state. Equipped with sleepin...

OTTAWA - The federal government's newly announced inflation relief for lower-income Canadians through the GST rebate stacks up as a better policy than some of the cash payments issued by provinces, ec...

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre's crushing win to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada raises questions about the status and power of the party's social conservatives. That well-mobilized part ...

LONDON (AP) - When Rachel Brading was a child she waited hours to see Queen Elizabeth II pass by her hometown in the midlands of England. Forty years later she was waiting again, one among a crowd of ...

Red Deer's two Members of Parliament are very pleased with longtime Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre being elected as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.In a Facebook post, Red Deer-Lacombe MP Blai...