Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Premier speaks as record COVID numbers keep rising
Today's COVID-19 data is below...Alberta continues to set new active COVID-19 case records daily and the positivity rate is close to 42 per cent as hospitalizations approach 800.Premier Jason Kenney a...
Jan 13, 2022
New vaccination incentives needed, says Alberta's former top doctor
A former chief medical health officer says Alberta needs new COVID-19 vaccination incentives to help protect health care and the public.Dr. James Talbot says that should include both positive and nega...
Jan 13, 2022
Ottawa to go ahead with trucker vaccine mandate after stating it would scrap it
MONTREAL, QUE. - The federal government says the vaccine mandate for truckers crossing into Canada from the United States will come into effect this Saturday as planned, despite a previous statement f...
Jan 13, 2022
WATCH: Province to provide COVID update Thursday at 3:30
Government officials will provide a live update on Thursday about what the province is doing to protect public health amid the ongoing pandemic.Premier Jason Kenney and CMOH, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, are sl...
Jan 13, 2022
Unvaccinated Canadian truckers will not have to quarantine when crossing border: CSBA
Only days before Canadian truck drivers were required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to get into the country or face quarantine, the federal government is backing away from the vaccine mandate. T...
Jan 13, 2022
Blackfalds council approves letter of support to Alberta Regional Rail
Council for the Town of Blackfalds approved a motion Tuesday to sign a Letter of Support for the Alberta Regional Rail, a passenger rail service that would run across central Alberta with an express l...
Jan 12, 2022
The Salvation Army Red Deer's kettle campaign raises $217,000
The Salvation Army's Christmas kettle campaign raised $217,000 in Red Deer this holiday season, up from about $190,000 the year prior.Across Alberta and the territories, the campaign raised just shy o...
Jan 12, 2022
Alberta unions call for circuit-breaker COVID-19 lockdown, premier says no
EDMONTON - The leaders of Alberta's largest public and private sector unions are calling for drastic lockdown measures immediately to fight the spiralling COVID-19 Omicron variant.The leaders are call...
Jan 12, 2022
Adopt-A-Family program leads to Christmas miracles
It was like a scene from a movie: a single mother walking outside in the snow with her two children towards the women's shelter they were staying at. Looking down on the ground, she finds a postcard f...
Jan 12, 2022
Radiologists warn of growing backlog in medical imaging due to COVID-19 pandemic
Radiologists are warning that Canadian hospitals are in serious need of more equipment and staff to deal with medical imaging backlogs that the country was already facing before the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Jan 12, 2022