Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Innisfail featured in local author's latest novel
For the first time, local author Murray Moffatt has made the Town of Innisfail a featured location in one of his mystery novels. In the just released "Go West For Murder", Brantford, Ontario-based law...
Jun 20, 2025 (Supplied)
Defenceman Keith McInnis, of Red Deer, signs with Rebels
The Red Deer Rebels have announced that defenceman Keith McInnis has signed a WHL Scholarship and Development Agreement with the team. McInnis was selected by the Rebels in round five, 91st overall at...
Jun 20, 2025 (Red Deer Rebels)
Applications open for new disability benefit program, payments start next month
OTTAWA - Canada's new disability benefit - a program that provides eligible people with up to $200 a month - is now open for applications. The program is available to people with disabilities between ...
Jun 20, 2025
Searchers recover second body after rockfall near Banff National Park hiking trail
One of the two people killed in a rockfall in Banff National Park has been identified as 70-year-old Jutta Hinrichs of Calgary.The University of Alberta, in a statement, says Hinrichs was an educator ...
Jun 20, 2025
Parliament set to rise today, with MPs to vote on controversial major projects bill
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects and internal trade bill will be voted on today before the House of Commons rises until September. A closure motion the government passed to limit d...
Jun 20, 2025
Search to continue for missing hikers after rockfall at Banff National Park
LAKE LOUISE - Rescuers in Alberta are set to resume their search today for anyone else caught up in a massive rockfall that killed one and injured three in a remote section of Banff National Park. Vid...
Jun 20, 2025
Mayor's Recognition Awards 2025
The City of Red Deer celebrated the outstanding achievements of local individuals, groups and teams at the annual Mayor's Recognition Awards Wednesday night.Each year, city officials note, the awards ...
Jun 19, 2025
Tom McKinlay Jr. claims Alberta Men's Mid-Master Championship in Lacombe
Lacombe's Tom McKinlay Jr. won the 2025 Alberta Men's Mid-Master Championship on his home course.Over the three-day tournament from June 16-18 at the Lacombe Golf & Country Club, McKinlay Jr. shot...
Jun 19, 2025
Red Deer's Molly Simpson claims first-ever World Cup victory in elite women's division
Red Deer's Molly Simpson added another significant victory to her long list of accomplishments in BMX racing last weekend.The 22-year-old recorded her first victory at the 2025 UCI BMX Racing World Cu...
Jun 19, 2025
Company to pay $330K after Edmonton worker trapped in smokehouse, dies in 92 C heat
EDMONTON - A commercial food processing company has been ordered to pay $330,000 after one of its workers became trapped in a smokehouse and died. Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. was directed by a jud...
Jun 19, 2025