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State Of Emergency, Windstorm School Closures, Hwy 11-A Fatal Crash
3:55 pm – The Red Deer & District Community Foundation granted the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society $2,000 for a Mural at Festival Hall. The mural will represent the cultural and ethnic history of the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society member groups will be created by Lindsay Thurber Composite High art students to be completed by the spring of 2018.
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3:03 pm – Penhold Fire Crews responded to a total of 8 emergency calls on Tuesday night involving downed power lines on roofs of houses and across roads, along with trees down on some structures. Also, Penhold Fire Crews responded to assist the City of Red Deer to a fire on 60th Avenue and then ultimately to 4 more calls in the Riverside Meadows area. Then shortly after 9:30 am on Wednesday morning, Penhold Fire responded to a tree and power lines down on a house on Robinson Avenue. Fortis Alberta and Penhold Fire Crews removed the line and tree from the house.
12:03 pm – The ATB Financial Downtown Farmer’s Market is on this afternoon. However, the following road closures will be in place while it’s on.
11:54 am – Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School will be hosting a celebration in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday, Lindsay Thurber’s 70th birthday and National Aboriginal Day today. Local dignitaries will attend along with the students and staff of Lindsay Thurber. The celebration includes an all-school assembly to be held in the main gym, beginning at 12:30. Highlights of the assembly will include drum dancers, multi-media presentations and an aerial photo being taken of the entire student body. Plus, Lindsay Thurber High School will also reveal a student created time capsule to be re-opened in 50 years. The celebrations will end with a BBQ and birthday cake for students and staff.
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11:38 am – Red Deer County Operations department is pleased to announce that the new traffic circle constructed at the intersection of Laura Avenue and Lantern Street will open to the public today. (June 21)
11:35 am – Blackfalds RCMP advise they are investigating a serious two vehicle collision involving a single fatality on Highway 11-A and Range Road 283. The investigation is preliminary and an update will be provided as more information becomes available. The intersection of Highway 11-A and Range Road 283 is impassable at this time. Blackfalds RCMP are advising motorists to choose an alternate route as traffic is likely to be affected for several hours.
8:23 am – Officials with Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools say school buses are running today & schools are open. However, they are unable to update their bus app, as their servers are down from the storm last night.
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8:12 am – Cleanup efforts are in full swing today after a severe windstorm ripped through the City last night, causing significant damage and power outages in the community. Here’s the latest update from the City of Red Deer which has declared a Local State of Emergency.
7:54 am – A pair of schools in the Red Deer Public School District are closed today due to last night’s severe windstorm. They include Mountview and Gateway schools. Officials say other schools significantly impacted include Aspen Heights, Joseph Welsh and Grandview. Read More.
7:38 am – The City of Red Deer declared a state of local emergency on June 20, 2017 due to widespread power outages caused by a severe wind storm. Read More.
illegal immigration
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants coming to US from over 150 countries
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From the Center for Immigration Studies
By Todd Bensman
CIS analyst Todd Bensman traveled August 6-18 for field research on the Colombia and Panama sides of the notorious Darien Gap immigration passageway, through which more than 1.5 million foreign nationals have reached the U.S. southern border over the past three-plus years. On this page, you can find Bensman’s video, photos and reports from his research as they publish and afterward.
Bensman’s purpose for traveling first to Colombia’s immigrant staging towns and then to Panama’s camps and impacted villages is to assess the impacts of a new Panama plan to “close” the passageway – supposedly with pledged U.S. help.
On the Colombia side of the gap, Bensman visited the towns of Turbo, Nicocli, Acandi, and Capurgana – all staging towns where trailheads lead immigrants into Panama. On the Panama side, Bensman spent time in Panama City, then traveled to the Darien Province where he visited three camps where immigrants exit or pass through in buses: Metete, Lajas Blanca, and Boco Chiquito.
Federal Election 2021
Chinese agents allegedly used illegal tactics to threaten Canadians in 2021 election, documents show
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From LifeSiteNews
Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur had downplayed the allegations, but a report showed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was aware of foreign actor threats and interference being carried out.
A memo recently disclosed by a commission looking into foreign interference in Canada’s last two elections shows federal officials knew agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were using illegal methods to threaten Canadian voters.
The information was disclosed from a memo dated August 29, 2023, from a Department of Foreign Affairs meeting, as disclosed by the Commission on Foreign Interference. The meeting acknowledging threats to Canadians via foreign state actors came only weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur tasked with looking into the matter downplayed such interference as “media allegations.”
“The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is aware foreign actor threats and interference are being carried out in Canada, including the harassment of individuals or groups exercising their fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the Charter,” reads the memo, as noted by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Combating and investigating foreign actor interference remains an operational priority for the RCMP,” it said.
According to the memo, the government claimed that it takes “its responsibility to protect Canadians from foreign interference seriously.”
The Commission on Foreign Interference is headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, who had earlier said she and her lawyers will remain “impartial” and will not be influenced by politics. In January, Hogue said that she would “uncover the truth whatever it may be.”
The commission was struck after Trudeau’s special rapporteur, former Governor General David Johnston, failed in an investigation into CCP allegations last year after much delay. That inquiry was not done in public and was headed by Johnston, who is a “family friend” of Trudeau.
Johnston quit as “special rapporteur” after a public outcry following his conclusion that there should not be a public inquiry into the matter. Conservative MPs demanded Johnston be replaced over his ties to both China and the Trudeau family.
The potential meddling in Canada’s elections by agents of the CCP has many Canadians worried as well.
The news that federal executives knew that CCP agents had used illegal tactics on Canadians comes just after LifeSiteNews on Monday reported on another subject of interest involving the CCP.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, documents from a federal inquiry looking at meddling in Canada’s past two elections by foreign state actors show CCP agents allegedly worked as Elections Canada poll workers in the 2021 campaign.
As for Trudeau, he has praised China for its “basic dictatorship” and has labeled the authoritarian nation as his favorite country other than his own.
Thus far, the Commission has revealed that there were 13 electoral ridings with suspicious activity. The Commission is currently on break and will resume regular hearings in September.
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