News
Around Red Deer May 1st…..
2:22 pm – RCMP are asking for your help in finding 16 year old Nadia Gursky. She was last seen in Red Deer on April 25th and Police wish to verify her well-being. Nadia Gursky is described as white, 5’6” tall, 165 lbs, long curly red-blonde hair and hazel eyes. If you know where she is, contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.
1:45 pm – RCMP are looking for three young male suspects after a man was robbed at gun-point in Blackfalds early this morning. Read More.
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1:41 pm – Repairs begin today on the City of Lacombe’s outdoor Tennis Courts. Read More.
10:44 am – The Town of Innisfail’s Movers & Groovers Adult Walking Group will run at the Innisfail Arena for six weeks starting Monday, May 1! Read More.
10:41 am – Large item pick-up begins in the Town of Innisfail today! Read More.
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10:34 am – Sylvan Lake’s Annual Spring Clean-Up is now underway. Pitch-In Week runs from May 1 – 7. Read More.
10:23 am – Blackfalds Annual Municipal Census begins today! Read More.
10:17 am – A number of Free activities are available for youth in Penhold this week. Check out the Town’s Facebook Page for more information. Details Here.
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10:04 am – An unfounded bomb threat shut down Red Deer’s Collicutt Centre on Sunday night. Read More.
9:58 am – The careless disposal of oily rags has been identified as the cause of a house fire in Red Deer’s Morrisroe neighbourhood on Friday. Read More.
9:35 am – The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division is re-evaluating it’s process for third party classroom presentations, after a controversial one from Red Deer & Area Pro-Life that was presented to Grade 10 students at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School last month. This means a new guiding set of procedures is now being developed so teaching staff can be provided clear direction on how they will be involved before, during and after any presentation to ensure the integrity of the lesson. In the meantime, any future presentations will be vetted until these procedures can be formally included in the division’s Administrative Procedures.
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9:21 am – A Red Deer man is facing charges after RCMP arrested a man attempting to use a slip tank from another vehicle to pump gas into what turned out to be a stolen truck. 30 year old Kyle Earl Harstad of Red Deer has been charged.
9:09 am – Lacombe County is allocating it’s 2016 Budget Surplus of $1,447,110.46 to it’s Bridge Reserve, Tax Rate Stabilization Reserve and Recreation Capital Assistance Reserve. Each will receive $480,000. The remaining $7,110.46 will remain in unrestricted surplus.
8:59 am – Officials with Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools are asking students, parents and guardians to recognize and Thank all School Bus Driver today. It’s School Bus Driver Appreciation Day! Elsewhere, at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School, Badminton teams will play against each other with the top two teams moving onto provincials on Friday, May 5.
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8:44 am – Elementary students in the Red Deer Public School District have a chance tonight and next Monday, May 8th to take part in Choir Kids at the New Life Fellowship Church on Kelloway Crescent. Choir Kids is a unique program for elementary students to rehearse and perform with a professional orchestra. This event showcases the Division’s amazing music and choral programs and provides great exposure to a new realm of music. Students have the opportunity to collaborate and perform with peers, other teachers and professional musicians! Read More.
8:32 am – Seven students from École Secondaire Notre Dame High School will be moving onto the Skills Alberta Competition on May 10 and 11 in Edmonton. The 2017 Regional Skills Competition was on April 27, 2017. The following students are the winners in the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) areas: In Baking, Keana Fraser, Grade 12 won silver and is going onto provincials. Electrical Installations, Adam Holmes, Grade 11 won bronze, Shawn Rowland, Grade 11 won silver and is going onto provincials & Jared Wilkens, Grade 10 won gold and is going onto provincials. In Hairstyling Junior, Hailey Foster, Grade 11 won bronze, Allie Bradford, Grade 10 won gold and is going onto provincials. In Hairstyling Intermediate, Kenzie Armitage, Grade 12 won silver and is going onto provincials. In Welding, Jessica Wohlgemuth, Grade 12 won gold and is going onto provincials.
8:08 am – A Red Deer man and woman were arrested at a Markerville campground April 27th and charged with being in possession of a stolen truck, other stolen items, stolen I.D. and weapons. The pair are due in Red Deer court May 2nd. Read More.
Media
Top Five Huge Stories the Media Buried This Week

NEERA TANDEN: “The military requires accountability. It’s the most accountable organization. You are supposed to be accountable to higher-ups. Politics isn’t supposed to have to do with any of this, and the fact that that’s happening, that they’re just basically saying nothing to do here, is a big problem, I think, for those who believe in accountability.”
@ScottJenningsKY: “I think Republicans aren’t interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. I mean, the bar for getting rid of a Secretary of Defense is apparently pretty high. You can get 13 people killed and go AWOL and not tell the commander in chief, and that’s not a fireable offense.”
“But these lectures about accountability and national security after letting 10 million people into the country who raped and murdered and committed violent acts and no remorse or accountability.”
NEERA TANDEN: “What are you talking about? They closed the border.”
#4 – Bill Gates says we won’t need humans “for most things.”
During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon asked Gates a pretty direct question: “Will we still need humans?”
Gates responded, “Not for most things. We’ll decide … There will be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things and growing food, over time those will be basically solved problems.”
VIDEO: @TheChiefNerd
REP JORDAN: “Is NPR biased?”
MAHER: “I have never seen any political bias.”
JORDAN: “In the DC area, editorial positions at NPR have 87 registered Democrats and 0 Republicans.”
MAHER: “We do not track the voter registration, but I find that concerning.”
JORDAN: “87-0 and you’re not biased?”
MAHER: “I think that is concerning if those numbers are accurate.”
JORDAN: “October 2020, the NYPost had the Hunter Biden laptop story, and one of those 87 Democrat editors said, ‘We don’t want to waste our readers and listeners’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.’ Was that story a pure distraction?”
Video + Transcript via @Kanekoathegreat
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#2 – Utah becomes the first state to officially BAN fluoride in all public drinking water.
For decades, fluoride was accepted as a safe way to prevent tooth decay. Few questioned it.
But last year, in a dramatic legal twist, a federal judge ruled that fluoride may actually lower children’s IQ—and cited evidence that could upend everything we thought we knew.
That ruling sent shockwaves through the public health world.
Judge Edward Chen pointed to scientific studies showing a “high level of certainty” that fluoride exposure “poses a risk” to developing brains.
He ordered the EPA to reexamine its safety standards, warning that the margin for safety may be far too narrow.
At the center of the case: dozens of peer-reviewed studies linking everyday fluoride exposure—even at levels found in U.S. tap water—to reduced intellectual capacity in children.
It wasn’t just one paper. The National Toxicology Program, a branch of the U.S. government, also concluded that higher fluoride levels were “consistently associated” with lower IQ in kids.
They flagged 1.5 mg/L as a risk threshold. Some communities hover right near it.
In response to the growing evidence, Utah passed HB 81, banning all fluoride additives in public water.
The law takes effect May 7. It doesn’t ban fluoride completely. Anyone who wants it can still get it—like any other prescription.
And that’s the point: Utah’s lawmakers say this is about informed consent and personal choice.
This issue is no longer on the fringe. Across the country, cities and towns are quietly rethinking water fluoridation—and some have already pulled out. Utah is the first state to take bold action. It may not be the last.
The conversation surrounding fluoride has shifted from “Is it helpful?” to “Is it safe?” And for the first time in nearly a century, that question is being taken seriously.
VIDEO: @TheChiefNerd
#1 – RFK Jr. Drops Stunning Vaccine Announcement
Kennedy revealed that the CDC is creating a new sub-agency focused entirely on vaccine injuries—a long-overdue shift for patients who’ve spent years searching for answers without any support from the government.
“We’re incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in vaccine injuries,” Kennedy announced.
“These are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people.”
For years, the vaccine-injured have felt ignored or dismissed, as public health agencies refused to even acknowledge the problem. Now, there’s finally an initiative underway to investigate their injuries and to provide support.
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International
‘Lot Of Nonsense’: Kari Lake Announces Voice Of America Is Dumping Legacy Outlets

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Hailey Gomez
Special Adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Kari Lake announced Friday that Voice of America (VOA) will terminate its contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.
VOA, an international broadcasting state media network, is funded by USAGM, with former President Joe Biden requesting in March 2024 a budget increase for the 2025 fiscal year to further support the radio network. In an X post on Friday, Lake announced USAGM will end its “expensive and unnecessary newswire contracts,” adding that some of the major agreements included “tens-of-millions of dollars in contracts” with AP News, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
“USAGM is an American taxpayer funded News Organization with an 83-year history. We should not be paying outside news companies to tell us what the news is—with nearly a billion-dollar budget, we should be producing news ourselves,” Lake wrote. “And if that’s not possible, the American taxpayer should demand to know why.”
During a meeting with VOA staffers Friday, employees were reportedly told to “stop using wire service material for their reports,” according to Newsmax. Notably, audio, video, and text reports have often been used to supplement coverage from locations where reporters are not present, the outlet reported.
In an interview with Newsmax prior to the official contract cuts, Lake discussed how the agency was finding “a lot of nonsense that the American taxpayer shouldn’t be paying for.”
“Today, I started the process of terminating the agency’s contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters, & the Agence France-Presse. This will save taxpayers about 53 million dollars. The purpose of our agency is to tell the American story. We don’t need to outsource that responsibility to anyone else,” Lake wrote in an X post regarding the interview.
Disputes between The AP and the White House began in February after the corporate media outlet was revoked press access for refusing to call the Gulf of America by its new name. The AP filed a lawsuit on Feb. 21 against White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich for injunctive relief.
Lake was sworn in as USAGM’s special adviser on March 3, saying she’s “looking forward” to serving America and “streamlining” the agency. The cuts from the agency follow President Donald Trump’s push for his second administration to review the government’s wasteful spending.
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