Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Red Deer active cases down by 10 to 163, but one new death
Alberta is reporting 643 news cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of active cases in our province now to 9,987 - down 269 from yesterday. With 13,019 tests conducted over the past 24 ho...
Jan 22, 2021
Man charged in Pigeon Lake kidnapping
A man from the Louis Bull First Nation is facing multiple charges following the abduction of a woman from the Cree Nation community of Pigeon Lake this week. Maskwacis RCMP say it began on Jan. 19, at...
Jan 22, 2021
A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis
Nearly a year to the day after the Chinese city of Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that had already escaped, President Joe Biden began putting into effect a new war plan for fighting the o...
Jan 22, 2021
Trudeau, Biden to talk today as death of Keystone XL reverberates in Canada
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak with U.S. President Joe Biden today amid continuing fallout from the death of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The phone call, Biden's first with...
Jan 22, 2021
Canadians react as Julie Payette steps down as Governor General
OTTAWA - "Every employee in the government of Canada has the right to work in a safe and healthy environment, and we will always take this very seriously. Today's announcement provides an opportunity ...
Jan 21, 2021
The highlights — and lowlights — of Julie Payette's tenure as Governor General
OTTAWA - Oct. 2, 2017: Julie Payette is sworn in as Canada's fourth female Governor General, taking over from David Johnston. Nov. 1, 2017: Payette takes on fake news and bogus science, criticizing cl...
Jan 21, 2021
Delays to Canada's deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses keep getting worse
OTTAWA - The delivery slowdown of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech is going to be far worse than the companies first warned Canada last week. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, overseeing the vaccine r...
Jan 21, 2021
In wake of decision to kill Keystone XL, Biden's first foreign-leader call? Trudeau
WASHINGTON - If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet. The 46th...
Jan 21, 2021
As Alberta debates coal mining, industry already affecting once-protected Rockies
Coal mining is already having an impact in Alberta's Rocky Mountains even as debate intensifies over the industry's presence in one of the province's most beloved landscapes. "They've been very active...
Jan 21, 2021
Trudeau will be first foreign leader to speak with Biden on Friday: White House
WASHINGTON - The White House says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak with newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday. Press secretary Jen Psaki says Trudeau will be the first foreign l...
Jan 20, 2021