News
Around Red Deer May 19th – May 22nd
4:38 pm – The Highway 12/21 Regional Water Services Commission held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Mirror Community Hall today to celebrate the Mirror to Bashaw portion of the Highway 12/21 Regional Water Line. Read More.
3:12 pm – The Lacombe Police Service is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 14 year old, Rayona Steele. Rayona is considered as a runaway and was last seen in Lacombe on May 15, 2017. When last seen she was with her Rottweiler dog, “Tank”, that may still be travelling with her. Rayona Steele is described as: · Caucasian · 5’3” tall · 119 lbs · Red hair with purple ends · Blue eyes. Contact the Lacombe Police Service at 403-782-3279 if you know where she is.
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12:26 pm – RCMP have arrested a man and woman in possession of a large quantity of stolen identification documents after a traffic stop in the Town of Sylvan Lake. Read More.
12:17 pm – Innisfail RCMP are looking into a suspicious incident involving a young student outside John Wilson Elementary School. Read More.
11:46 am – Red Deer property owners can expect to receive their 2017 property tax notices in the mail in the next few days. Read More.
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11:01 am – Strong social and family relationships and good mental health are among the goals of programs chosen to receive funding from Red Deer & District Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) for the next three years. Read More.
10:56 am – Earl Dreeshen, Member of Parliament for Red Deer – Mountain View will be speaking to Bill C-46 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) in the House of Commons today. The Bill deals with proposed changes to impaired driving laws. The speech will take place at approximately 11:30 AM Mountain Time and will be broadcast on CPAC and available online at www.parlvu.parl.gc.ca
10:50 am – The Town of Innisfail has provided an update on it’s search for a new C.A.O.. Read More.
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10:44 am – Just in time for the Victoria Day long weekend, the Town of Innisfail’s new RV Dump Station opens today! Details here.
10:38 am – 48th Avenue construction gets underway in Sylvan Lake on Tuesday, May 23rd. Read More.
10:26 am – As part of the Broadway Avenue/Highway 2A realignment project in Blackfalds, all trees in the area are scheduled to be mulched in the next week. Read More.
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10:07 am – Don’t forget, Red Deer’s Public Market gets underway for another season on Saturday! Read More.
10:00 am – The Woody’s RV Marathon is taking place in Red Deer this Sunday! Details Here.
9:46 am – Transit riders make note of the Transit Schedule changes in Red Deer County this Victoria Day long weekend. Details here.
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9:41 am – Canada Post has converted all Rural Route addresses in Red Deer County to the 9-1-1 Municipal Address. Read More.
9:37 am – Plenty to do around the City of Red Deer this weekend. Find out more.
9:31 am – It’s another busy weekend at Red Deer’s Westerner Park. The Hunting Hills High School Graduation May 19th, Parkland Arabian Horse Show May 19-21 and YC Alberta on Saturday, May 20th. Details Here.
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9:22 am – RCMP are investigating a robbery at the Tarmack Liquor Store in Rocky Mountain House that occurred on May 14th 2017. Suspects left with an unknown number of liquor bottles. Read More.
9:11 am – Starting Tuesday, May 23rd, parking will be limited in Great Chief Park for the next month while the parking lots are being paved. Read More.
9:07 am – Construction of the 67 Street and Johnstone Drive roundabout and surrounding roadways will resume next week. As a result, there will be traffic impacts in the area. Read More.
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9:00 am – Rocky Mountain House RCMP are happy to report that Waylon Frencheater has been located safe and unharmed. Police would like to thank the public for their assistance in this matter.
8:56 am – Rimbey RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a person of interest in the investigation of a minivan theft from the Rimbey Best Western on April 23. Read More.
8:50 am – Heads up Red Deer drivers, there are some road closures planned throughout the City starting on Tuesday, May 23rd. Read More.
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8:43 am – The May long weekend kicks off summer, and an increase in drownings in the province. As a result, the Life Saving Society has water safety tips for Albertans before this holiday weekend. Read More.
8:10 am – A ground breaking ceremony will take place at the Mirror Community Hall today to mark the official start of construction on the Mirror to Bashaw Water Transmission Line. The event starts at 2:00 pm and is being hosted by the Highway 12/21 Regional Water Services Commission. Dignitaries attending the event include:
- Blaine Calkins, MP, Red Deer-Lacombe
- Ron Orr, MLA, Lacombe-Ponoka
- Brenda Knight, Highway 12/21 Commission Chairperson
- Todd Simenson, Regional Leader, Stantec Consulting Ltd.
8:01 am – It’s Graduation Day for Grade 12 students at Red Deer’s Hunting Hills High School! The Ceremony starts at 11:00 am at the Centrium & Pavillion in Westerner Park, with the Grand March and Banquet starting at 6:00 pm. Read More.
International
UK Supreme Court rules ‘woman’ means biological female

Susan Smith (L) and Marion Calder, directors of ‘For Women Scotland’ cheer as they leave the Supreme Court on April 16, 2025, in London, England after winning their appeal in defense of biological reality
From LifeSiteNews
By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent
The ruling, in which the court rejected transgender legal status, comes as a victory for campaigners who have urged the recognition of biological reality and common sense in the law.
The U.K. Supreme Court has issued a ruling stating that “woman” in law refers to a biological female, and that transgender “women” are not female in the eyes of the law.
In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled today that legally transgender “women” are not women, since a woman is legally defined by “biological sex.”
Published April 16, the Supreme Court’s 88-page verdict was handed down on the case of Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v. The Scottish Ministers (Respondent). The ruling marks the end of a battle of many years between the Scottish government and women’s right campaigners who sought to oppose the government’s promotion of transgender ideology.
In 2018, the Scottish government issued a decision to allow the definition of “woman” to include men who assume their gender to be female, opening the door to allowing so-called “transgender” individuals to identify as women.
This guidance was challenged by women’s rights campaigners, arguing that a woman should be defined in line with biological sex, and in 2022 the Scottish government was forced to change its definition after the court found that such a move was outside the government’s “legislative competence.”
Given this, the government issued new guidance which sought to cover both aspects: saying that biological women are women, but also that men with a “gender recognition certificate” (GRC) are also considered women. A GRC is given to people who identify as the opposite sex and who have had medical or surgical interventions in an attempt to “reassign” their gender.
Women Scotland Ltd appealed this new guidance. At first it was rejected by inner courts, but upon their taking the matter to the Supreme Court in March last year, the nation’s highest judicial body took up the case.
Today, with the ruling issued against transgender ideology, women’s campaigners are welcoming the news as a win for women’s safety.
“A thing of beauty,” praised Lois McLatchie Miller from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal group.
“They looked at the whole argument, not just who goes in what bathroom and trans women. This is going to change organizations, employers, service providers,” Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph. “Everyone is going to have to pay attention to this, this is from the highest court in the land. It’s saying sex in the Equality Act is biological sex. Self ID is dead.”
“Victory,” commented Charlie Bently-Astor, a prominent campaigner for biological reality against the transgender movement, after she nearly underwent surgical transition herself at a younger age.
“After 15 years of insanity, the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that men who say they are ‘trans women’ are not women,” wrote leader of the Christian political movement David Kurten.
Leader of the Conservative Party – the opposition to the current Labour government – Kemi Badenoch welcomed the court’s ruling, writing that “saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.”
Others lamented the fact that the debate even was taking place, let alone having gone to the Supreme Court.
“What a parody we live in,” commented Reform Party candidate Joseph Robertson.
Rupert Lowe MP – who has risen to new prominence in recent weeks for his outspoken condemnation of the immigration and rape gang crisis – wrote, “Absolute madness that we’re even debating what a woman is – it’s a biological fact. No amount of woke howling will ever change that.”
However, the Supreme Court did not wish to get pulled into siding with certain arguments, with Lord Hodge of the tribunal stating that “we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”
The debate has taken center stage in the U.K. in recent years, not least for the role played by the current Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer himself has become notorious throughout the nation for his contradictions and inability to answer the question of what a woman is, having flip-flopped on saying that a woman can have a penis, due to his support for the transgender movement.
At the time of going to press, neither Starmer nor his deputy Angela Rayner issued a statement about the Supreme Court ruling. There has been no statement issued from the Scottish government either, nor from the office of the first minister.
Transgender activists have expectedly condemned the ruling as “a disgusting attack on trans rights.” One leading transgender campaigner individual told Sky News, “I am gutted to see the judgement from the Supreme Court which ends 20 years of understanding that transgender people with a GRC are able to be, for all intents and purposes, legally recognized as our true genders.”
International
Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump she has ‘evidence’ voting machines are ‘vulnerable to hackers’

From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
Last month, Trump signed an executive order directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states “complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced during a Cabinet meeting last week at the White House that voting machines across the U.S. are not secure.
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast,” she said about a half hour into the meeting.
Gabbard’s remarks confirm what millions of Americans have long suspected about elections across the U.S.
President Donald Trump himself has maintained skepticism of current voting methods and has called for paper ballots to prevent cheating.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was one of only a few voices to publicly argue that voting machines, like those run by Dominion and Smartmatic which were used during the 2020 presidential election, were compromised. GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene took to X to praise the businessman after Gabbard made her remarks.
“Mike Lindell along with MANY others vindicated!!” she exclaimed on X. “Another conspiracy theory being proven right! Guess what Democrats already knew this and publicly talked about it in 2019! And then lied and lied and lied!!!”
Last month, Trump signed an executive order directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states “complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship.”
Congress has also taken steps to ensure election integrity by voting on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (also known as the SAVE Act) last week. Dubbed “controversial” by the media and left-wing groups, the common sense bill would require persons to show proof of citizenship before voting. The House approved the measure 220-208 with four Democrats in support. The bill now heads to the Senate where it will face an uphill battle for the required 60 votes. Republicans currently have a 53 seat majority.
Gabbard told Trump at the meeting that the evidence she found “further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”
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