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Intersection Safety A Focus For Red Deer Mounties This Month

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9 years ago

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By Sheldon Spackman

Intersection safety and aggressive driving are the focus for Red Deer RCMP this month. Mounties say between January 1st and 12th, they responded to roughly 119 collisions, with 57 of those being at intersections.

Police say 19 of those 57 intersections collisions were caused by someone running a red light or making an unsafe turn at an intersection. Two more were caused when drivers ran stop signs. 15 collisions came about when a driver rear-ended a vehicle that was stopped at a red light, another two when drivers were rear-ended while waiting to turn at an intersection, and one more driver was rear-ended while they were stopped at a crosswalk to allow a pedestrian to cross. Seven more intersection collisions occurred when drivers were unable to stop safely on icy roads. Fortunately, most of these collisions resulted in no injury or minor injury.

RCMP say the two intersections in Red Deer with the highest collision rates are at 30th Avenue and 67th Street and at Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street. Mounties offer the following Traffic and Pedestrian Safety tips below, as well as when and how to report a collision:

Traffic safety tips:

  • Drive for the weather – slow down and prepare for longer stopping times on icy streets.
  • Don’t roll through stop signs, speed through intersections, or follow too closely.
  • Don’t rely on having the right of way – check in all directions before turning at an intersection, whether the light is with you or against you.
  • Keep intersections clear so that traffic will be able to proceed if a light changes colour.
  • U-turns are prohibited at intersections controlled by lights, and where there are signs indicating that u-turns are not allowed.
  • Pedestrians have the right of way in crosswalks, unmarked intersections, or at stop signs unless otherwise indicated by sign. Failure to yield to a pedestrian in a cross walk results in a $776 fine and three demerits.
  • If an emergency vehicle approaches with its emergency lights activated, be cautious not to block any part of the intersection. Pull over and stop until the emergency vehicle passes through the intersection. Failure to yield to an emergency vehicle is a $233 fine and three demerit points.

Pedestrian safety tips:

  • Be alert at intersections.
  • Always look out for possible dangers when crossing the street.
  • Make eye contact with drivers before you cross the street – when eyes lock, it’s safer to walk.
  • Abide by traffic signs and signals. They are in place to protect your safety.

You can report unsafe drivers when it is safe to do so by calling the Red Deer RCMP complaint line at 403-343-5575 with a description of the car and driver, license plate and direction of travel.

Reporting collisions to RCMP:

Do you need police at the scene of a motor vehicle collision?

If there is a serious injury or fatality, call 911. If any involved vehicle is not drivable, or if any driver fails to produce registration or insurance, call the RCMP complaint line at 403-343-5575 (24 hours). If the vehicles are drivable and the above factors don’t apply, you don’t need police at the scene.

Do you need to report a collision to police after the fact?

You must make a police report after the collision if there is any injury, even a minor one, or if there appears to be $2000 or more in damage (if you aren’t sure, get an estimate first).

Exchange information with the other driver:

You need to exchange registration, insurance and drivers’ license information with the other driver(s). If you have a cell phone, it’s easiest to take photographs that information. Make sure to also take pictures of the damage to all involved vehicles and the collision location.

Report the collision in person at the downtown (4602 51 Avenue) or north (6592 58 Avenue) detachments:

You will need to provide the registration, insurance and drivers’ license information you exchanged with the other driver, damage to involved vehicles and the collision location. You will need to fill out a collision report.

Reporting a Hit and Run

If you are the victim of a hit and run, report it to the police. If you see the other vehicle, record its make, model, and license plate number – partial license plates may be useful.

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BBC boss quits amid scandal over edited Trump footage

Published on November 14, 2025

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BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned Sunday after the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was caught airing doctored footage of President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech — falsely making it appear that Trump urged his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.

Davie, who led the BBC for five years, announced his resignation in a statement saying he was taking “ultimate responsibility” for recent “mistakes.” “Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie wrote. “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.” The statement notably avoided mentioning Trump by name.

The resignation came alongside that of BBC News CEO Deborah Turness after internal documents revealed that the network’s flagship investigative program Panorama had spliced together two separate lines from Trump’s Jan. 6 address to create a misleading narrative. The program, which aired just a week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, suggested Trump directly told supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the Capitol.

According to a 19-page whistleblower memo obtained by The Telegraph, editors at the BBC combined Trump’s remarks from the beginning and end of his speech to make him appear as though he was inciting violence. In reality, Trump’s full statement was that his supporters should walk “peacefully and patriotically” to make their voices heard. The memo accused senior BBC executives, including its chairman, of ignoring repeated internal complaints about the doctored footage.

The revelations sparked outrage across the U.K. and abroad, with critics calling the manipulation a “catastrophic breach of trust” by Britain’s state broadcaster. The incident added to growing criticism that the BBC has become increasingly partisan. In recent weeks, the network faced backlash for coverage of the war in Gaza and its treatment of transgender policy debates, both seen as tilting left.

Davie’s departure marks another blow to the BBC’s credibility as it struggles to maintain public trust amid accusations of bias and political interference. The broadcaster has not announced who will replace him.

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BBC uses ‘neutrality’ excuse to rebuke newscaster who objected to gender ideology

Published on November 9, 2025

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By Jonathon Van Maren

Rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script that says men can get pregnant isn’t ‘neutrality,’ by any stretch.

Imagine a society in which the state broadcaster demanded that the female hosts eliminate the word “women” in favor of “people” and rebuked them if their facial expressions betrayed any hit of protest on air.

Welcome to the United Kingdom in 2025. According to the BBC: “Martine Croxall broke rules over ‘pregnant people’ facial expression, BBC says.”

Martine Croxall, a BBC presenter, was introducing an interview about “research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves,” and the teleprompter script she was reading live on BBC News Channel contained the phrase “pregnant people.”

Croxall visibly raised her eyebrows, and corrected in real-time: “Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people … women … and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions.”

When Dr. Mistry, a professor, came on for the interview, she too referred to “pregnant women” rather than “pregnant people.”

Because a female presenter clearly objected to “women” being erased in favor of “people” for the ideological purpose of buttressing gender ideology, the BBC has now upheld “20 impartiality complaints” against Croxall. According to the BBC: “BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said it considered her facial expression as she said this gave the ‘strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter.’”

READ: BBC rebukes newscaster for correcting ‘pregnant people’ with ‘women’ on air

In other words, as a woman, Croxall obviously objected to the implication that men can get pregnant. Croxall has a son and has thus been pregnant herself. But in our current clown world, the Executive Complaints Unit “said it considered Croxall’s facial expression laid it open to the interpretation that it ‘indicated a particular viewpoint in the controversies currently surrounding trans identity.’”

The totalitarian trans activists desperately trying to force society to play along with their delusions with force or coercion were behind the complaints, with the ECU reporting that Croxall’s facial expressions were “variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt, or exasperation.” In other words: Say your lines the way we gave them to you and look like you believe them, bigot.

The ECU was also concerned that those who, you know, disagree with the idea that men can get pregnant were also pleased by Croxall’s act of defiance, and that she received “congratulatory messages” on social media (including one from J.K. Rowling), which “together with the critical views expressed in the complaints to the BBC and elsewhere, tended to confirm the impression of her having expressed a personal view was widely shared across the spectrum of opinion on the issue.”

Clearly the BBC—which is desperately been trying to regain its reputation—is attempting to wave the fig leaf of “neutrality” in order to reestablish its previous bona fides. But rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script and making a facial expression that appeared to indicate opposition to the idea that men can get pregnant isn’t “neutrality,” by any stretch.

Just a decade ago, no media outlet would have considered implementing gender ideology into their coverage as fact. Now presenters are expected to use fundamentally propagandistic language that frontloads the premises of activists while keeping a straight face as if both transgender ideology and observable biological reality are two perspectives deserving of equal respect and consideration.

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Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

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