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Bruce Buruma launches campaign for Red Deer South UCP Nomination

Exerts from Bruce Buruma’s speech announcing his candidacy for Red Deer South UCP Nomination
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Growing up in a family where mom and dad didn’t have jobs, they had businesses has had a significant influence on me. My parents saw lots of good times because of the opportunities Alberta provided, but they knew tough times as well. They knew about risks and rewards–they knew about hard work. They knew what it was putting things on the line. When you see that, you understand that and it becomes a part of you.
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Remember when Red Deer was in the middle of the Golden Corridor where jobs, investment and that entrepreneurial spirit were alive and well. Where Canadians from other provinces came to Alberta seeing it as a land of opportunity. We’ve lost some of that spark and drive, I think people are frustrated maybe even angry and want better…they deserve better…. I’m particularly concerned about that for young adults who are just embarking on careers and setting up their lives. I believe that hope and confidence are the foundations to success. As we look to the future, we need to bring back hope and confidence, we need to do better. So it is with hope and confidence that we can do better that we are here today and I am pleased to announce that I am seeking the United Conservative Nomination for Red Deer South
My top priority is to be
- A strong, committed, experienced voice for Red Deer South
- I will be accessible and connected across our community to know the issues and priorities to be a true champion for Red Deer
- I will represent Red Deer South with honesty, compassion, integrity and confidence
- I bring strong experience, a business sense and active involvement in our community
- I am conservative and have been actively involved in our party. I know what it will take to get the job done.My priorities are
- Bring back hope, confidence and the Alberta Advantage and get people back to work to good jobs
- We need to repeal the Carbon Tax
- We need government to be fiscally responsible and deal with the NDP debt
- Address crime and create safe communities
- Ensure a responsive and efficient health care system… and that includes a Cardiac Cath Lab for Red Deer
- Education that prepares students for their future
- A big tent party respecting a diverse Alberta
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What do I bring to the table?
I have an amazing job as part of the Senior Leadership team at Red Deer Public Schools where I am Corporate Secretary and Director of Community Relations. Red Deer Public has a budget of $125 million, and we’re one of Red Deer’s largest organizations with a amazing team of over 1200 dedicated staff serving 11,000 students and their families. As part of the executive team for over 14 years, I’m at the table working with our Board of Trustees and Superintendent dealing with the issues — helping make the challenging and important decisions on how education can best shape the future of our community.
I also manage community relations, communications and community engagement and am also Executive Director for our Foundation which truly changes lives of students through great support from our community. Each year raising over $300,000 to created life chances for kids. That senior leadership experience experience that matters.
Before that I was Vice Principal at Hunting Hills High School and taught Business at Lindsay Thurber, the high school I graduated from!
I have truly valued my connections and learned so much by being active in our community. Each of these have provided amazing growth opportunities.
Red Deer and District Community Foundaton, chairing the donor development committee
Rotary Urban Spirits, Red Deers newest club Urban Spirits
Youth HQ
Canada Winter Games Legacy Committee
And as you have heard, I have served on the Board of Governors of Red Deer College and the David Thompson Health Advisory Council
All these and many others have provided me with great perspectives and insights to our community…its priorities and needs that will serve me well
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We have an amazing community. As your MLA I will be a strong voice for Red Deer South. I will be available, accessible and connected across our community to listen, understand and be a champion for the issues and priorities that matter for Red Deer South. Let’s bring hope and confidence back to Red Deer South and to Alberta THANK YOU!
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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