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CommunityNOW: CARE Learn to Skate
This year marks the seventh year of the 'Learn to Skate' program, put on by the Central Alberta Refugee Effort and The City of Red Deer. The program is offered free of charge to immigrant youth and al...
Dec 19, 2019
Mayor signs deed for Quebec City's first Muslim cemetery, set to open in spring
Quebec City's mayor has signed a deed of sale for a parcel of land that will soon become the region's first Muslim cemetery. Mayor Regis Labeaume had promised the land to the city's Muslim c...
Dec 19, 2019
Parliament's budget watchdog raises flags over Liberals' fiscal wiggle room
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog says the government's updated fiscal outlook raises questions about whether the Liberals can keep their pledge to manage the national debt - or delive...
Dec 19, 2019
US probes 4 automakers in new Takata air bag recall
DETROIT - The U.S. government's highway safety agency has launched an investigation into four automakers that have a potentially deadly type of Takata air bag inflator in their vehicles but have yet t...
Dec 19, 2019
RCMP seize large amount of diesel fuel following gas card theft
A Red Deer man that's known to police is facing well over 20 new charges, including counts under the Alberta Dangerous Goods and Alberta Fuel Tax Act following an RCMP investigation into a stolen fuel...
Dec 19, 2019 (Red Deer RCMP)
Canada looking at military engineers, on-the-ground training for peacekeeping
OTTAWA - Canada is exploring the possible deployment of military engineers as the newly re-elected Liberal government takes a fresh look at ways to step up its support for United Nations peacekeeping,...
Dec 19, 2019
U.S. software giant checking on logo used by Alberta's energy war room
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room says it is pulling and replacing its logo after learning that it was already being used by another company.The war room, officially known as the Canadian Energy Ce...
Dec 19, 2019
Rocky spray park to be built in 2020
Rocky Mountain House's journey towards finally having a spray park cleared another hurdle Tuesday after town council approved a revised scope for the project.The spray park, mechanical room and washro...
Dec 19, 2019
Accused Rocky Mountain House murderer going to trial
The man accused in the shooting death of a Rocky Mountain House woman and attempted murder of her sister is going to trial. Marshall Lawrence Stone, 45, is charged with second-degree murder and attemp...
Dec 19, 2019
Big oil, big banks and environment leaders link up to solve climate crisis
OTTAWA - In a courtroom in British Columbia Monday, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stop...
Dec 19, 2019