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UPDATE: highway 9 now open – Oyen RCMP investigate multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

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UPDATE #4

August 21, 2019

Oyen RCMP investigate multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

Oyen, Alta. – Highway 9 at Range Road 72 remains closed.  Crews are continuing to clear the collision scene which includes the recovery of the dangerous goods contained in one of the semi trucks.  The road blockage is still expected to last until approximately 12:00.

Three people involved in this collision were confirmed deceased on scene.  Two people were critically injured and transported via air ambulance to area hospitals.  Eight other people were injured and either treated on scene or transported to local hospitals.

Through the night, several RCMP detachments were involved in managing this incident, including Coronation, Redcliffe and Hanna.  The RCMP collision analyst attended.  Support for people involved in the crash was received from the Victim Services Unit, including the use of the Oyen Legion.

The investigation into this collision remains a lengthy process given the nature of the crash scene.  It is anticipated that it will take several weeks for the collision analyst to complete the investigation.  If there is an update to be provided at that time, the RCMP will provide an update.

UPDATE #3

August 21, 2019

 

Oyen RCMP on scene of multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

Oyen, Alta. – Highway 9 at Range Road 72 remains closed while crews continue clearing the collision scene.  Hazmat teams will be attending the scene later this morning to assist with the clean-up.  Based on the complexity of the clean-up, the road blockage is expected to last until approximately 12:00 noon.

Traffic on Highway 9 is being re-routed eastbound to Highway 884 and westbound to Highway 41.  Motorists are being asked to avoid the area.

Additional updates will be provided once details are confirmed by investigators.

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UPDATE #2

August 20, 2019

 

Oyen RCMP on scene of multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

Oyen, Alta. – Shortly after 8:00 p.m. this evening, the fire was extinguished at the collision scene, and the RCMP collision analyst is on scene to conduct an examination and investigation.

It is confirmed that 10 vehicles were involved in the collision; seven passenger vehicles and three semi truck units.

While the collision analyst is expected to take approximately three more hours, there will be a further delay while vehicles are towed and the highway is cleaned.  It is anticipated that the road will remain impassable until early tomorrow morning.

This remains an active investigation.  A confirmation in relation to the number of people injured and/or deceased will be provided tomorrow. No further information will be provided this evening.

 

UPDATE #1

August 20, 2019

Oyen RCMP on scene of multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

Oyen, Alta. – The RCMP are requesting that any witnesses, or people involved in the collision, or people requiring assistance in relation to the collision, to attend the Legion in Oyen.  Food is available at the Legion, as well as Victim Services Unit members and RCMP.

Preliminary reports indicate that there were approximately 12 vehicles involved in the collision, some of which are semi tractor trailer units.  One of the semi trucks was hauling fuel and the fuel ignited, causing several vehicles to catch fire.  A second semi was hauling butane.  The collision area is consumed with flames.

There is no confirmed information available in relation to the number of injured people and/or fatalities.

The RCMP anticipate that it will be several hours before support units will be able to access the collision scene to do an examination.

As more information is confirmed, the media will be updated.

 

Aug. 20, 2019

Oyen RCMP on scene of multiple vehicle collision on Highway 9

Oyen, Alta. – Oyen RCMP are currently on scene of a collision involving multiple vehicles on Highway 9 at Range Road 72 between Chinook and Cereal, Alberta which occurred at approximately 3:30 p.m.

RCMP are asking motorists to avoid the area or expect delays. Traffic on Highway 9 is being re-routed eastbound to Highway 884 and westbound to Highway 41.

No further information is available at this time. An update will be provided.

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UK Supreme Court rules ‘woman’ means biological female

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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

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By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

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.

“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.”

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Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump she has ‘evidence’ voting machines are ‘vulnerable to hackers’

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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.

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