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If Red Deer was a restaurant, this would be the news.

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If Red Deer was a restaurant, this would be the news:
Red Deer Roadhouse is expanding again, adding more wings, bringing in more tables as their customer base continues to decline. Management made this decision in hopes of the return of the oilfield clan. The menu will stay the same, we will just spread out the customers, sitting fewer to a table. Busboys will have to walk farther to keep the tables clear, but management is hopeful the customers will come.
South of the Roadhouse is the Penhold Pancake House, and they are expanding due to an expanded customer base. This is due to the addition to their menu of the much-desired Multi-plex Muffins.
North of the Roadhouse is the Blackfalds Bakery, the fastest growing eatery around. They are expanding due in part to the Abbey Pie added to the menu.
Across the road, straight west the Sylvan Lake Saladbar is expanding due to upgrading of their entertainment, even with their steep parking fees.
What am I getting at? Red Deer is building new neighbourhoods while our population is declining. 25 older neighbourhoods are losing residents to the new neighbourhoods and to outlying communities like Blackfalds, Penhold and Sylvan Lake.
We appear to have a superiority complex when it comes to planning our city. Our failures are the fault of the oilfield, the economy, the province or fate but is never our fault. While other communities grow and we decline, it is because of cheaper housing, and lower taxes in smaller communities. Ignoring the facts that Lethbridge, Edmonton and Calgary also grew while Red Deer declined.
This is probably the main reason I cannot support the status quo.

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“It was just unfathomable to me that things had escalated to this degree,”

“We’d never used abusive or threatening language, even in private.”

You’d think that in Britain, the worst thing that could happen to you after sending a few critical WhatsApp messages would be a passive-aggressive reply or, at most, a snooty whisper campaign. What you probably wouldn’t expect is to have six police officers show up on your doorstep like they’re hunting down a cartel. But that’s precisely what happened to Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine — two parents whose great offense was asking some mildly inconvenient questions about how their daughter’s school planned to replace its retiring principal.
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The trouble started in May, shortly after the school’s principal retired. Instead of the usual round of polite emails, clumsy PowerPoints, and dreary Q&A sessions, there was… silence. Maxie Allen, who had once served as a school governor—so presumably knows his way around a budget meeting—asked the unthinkable: when was the recruitment process going to be opened up?
A fair question, right? Not in Borehamwood, apparently. The school responded not with answers, but with a sort of preemptive nuclear strike.
Jackie Spriggs, the chair of governors, issued a public warning about “inflammatory and defamatory” social media posts and hinted at disciplinary action for those who dared to cause “disharmony.” One imagines this word being uttered in the tone of a Bond villain stroking a white cat.
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