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Interesting Facts About Central Alberta Communities From The 2016 Federal Census – How Does Your Community Compare?

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By now you know Red Deer has once again surpassed 100,000 residents and that Blackfalds is growing at an incredible pace. But just how do our Central Alberta communities stack up against each other? Check to see how your community faired and see Alberta’s largest communities, as well as the fastest growing communities in Canada!

First… Here’s how Canada faired.

Canada      2016 Pop       2011 Pop      Growth Rate %
Canada    35,151,728     33,476,688           5.0

And closer to home:

Central Alberta Communities (Over 5,000 People) Ranked by Growth Rate

Community                          2016 Pop        2011 Pop     Rank in Size Canada     Rank in Alberta     Growth Rate %

Blackfalds                                 9,328              6,300                    437                               49                            48.1
Sylvan Lake                            14,816             12,362                    280                              28                            19.9
Lacombe                                13,057             11,707                     319                              36                            11.5
Olds                                           9,184              8,235                     442                              50                             11.5
Red Deer                              100,418            90,564                       54                                3                             10.9
Ponoka County                         9,806             8,856                     422                              48                            10.7
Camrose                                 18,742             17,286                     233                              24                              8.4
Ponoka                                      7,229              6,778                      541                              66                              6.7
Red Deer County                  19,541             18,316                     223                              23                               6.7
Didsbury                                    5,268             4,957                      689                              86                              6.3
Mountain View County       13,074           12,359                       318                              35                               5.8
Wainwright                              6,270            5,925                        610                              74                               5.8
Camrose County                     8,458            8,004                       466                              52                               5.7
Wetaskiwin County               11,181           10,866                       368                             39                               2.9
Drayton Valley                        7,235             7,118                        540                             65                                1.6
Kneehill County                      5,001             4,921                        713                             89                               1.6
Wetaskiwin                            12,655           12,525                        332                             37                               1
Lacombe County                   10,343          10,307                        397                             44                                .3
Innisfail                                     7,847             7,876                        501                             61                               -.4
Drumheller                                7,982            8,029                        491                             58                              -.6
Clearwater County                11,947           12,278                        344                             38                            -2.7

10 Largest Communities in Alberta

Community                           2016 Pop        2011 Pop        Rank in Canada             Rank in Alberta

Calgary                                  1,239,220       1,096,833                   3                                      1
Edmonton                               932,546          812,201                    5                                      2
Red Deer                                 100,418            90,564                   54                                      3
Strathcona County                  98,044            92,490                   55                                      4
Lethbridge                                92,729            83,517                    59                                      5
Wood Buffalo                           71,589             65,565                   80                                      6
St. Albert                                   65,589             61,466                   85                                      7
Medicine Hat                            63,260             60,005                  87                                      8
Grande Prairie                         63,166             55,655                   88                                     9
Airdrie                                        61,581             43,271                   89                                   10

10 Fastest Growing Communities in Canada

Community        Province              2016 Pop          2011 Pop        Growth Rate

Warman,                 Sask.                   11,020             7,104                    55.1%
Blackfalds               Alta.                      9,328              6,300                   48.1%
Cochrane                Alta.                    25,853            17,580                    47.1%
Airdrie                     Alta.                    61,581             43,271                   42.3%
Shelburn                  Ont.                     8,126              5,846                    39.0%
Chestermere          Alta.                    19,887            14,824                   34.2%
Beaumont               Alta.                    17,396            13,284                    31.0%
Milton                      Ont.                   110,128           84,362                   30.5%
Spruce Grove         Alta.                     34,066          26,171                     30.2%
Tsinstikeptum         B.C.                       7,612             5,872                    29.6%

And finally:

Worst Growth in Alberta

Bonnyville                                              5,417              6,216                   -12.9%

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Russiagate Remnants

Published on December 15, 2024

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Racket News

It would be a crime to abandon investigations into Russiagate, both because it’s ongoing and because of the cost to those of us who were victims of it

Remnants. Thats what we are; that’s even what some of us call ourselves. Remainders. Leftovers. Residue. The stub of the cigar of the fake Russiagate scandal, left to smoke and shrink away in the overfull ashtray of national shame.

We Russia hoax Remnants feel differently about President Donald Trump’s recent landslide victory, and our expectations are diverse. But we all, to some degree, have similar stories and hopes — not for retribution, as delicious as that may be, but for accountability and reform.

And Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is the man we need. Like the President elect, he has seen this abuse up close. They are uniquely qualified.

Make no mistake, when we all chose politics as a profession, we knew it was bloodsport. But none of us expected the personal toll that impacted not just careers, but health and families — especially our children.

There are many families like my own, destroyed completely by the Democrats’ illegal zeal to Get Trump at any cost. During Russiagate and the subsequent hoaxes, I screamed at the top of my lungs on television several times each week as my wife and daughters lived in fear in our Buffalo-area home.

Most Remnants stayed silent. They were the smart ones.

Those subjects of the bogus Russian collusion investigations are quietly reassembling their lives today. Just six or seven years ago, some pulled their children from school, bullied by students and teachers alike. Both parents in at least one family were fired, and with no money for tuition their son was forced to drop out of the college he worked tirelessly to attend. I don’t think he ever returned.

These Remnant stories are commonplace. Many families lost their homes; most lost their life savings. I know of older targets living on meager pensions now that their bank accounts were drained by lawfare legal fees. Those still working are earning less than half the income of their peers.

One family left the country, disheartened by what America had become. Another man, once an international business success, was wrongly debased and finally diminished to serve in a bureaucracy.

Then there is the death and near deaths, the suicide attempts readers will never know, the illnesses brought on by stress. When I fell with head and neck cancer, another Remnant struck by the disease called me twice a week to share our battles. After several months, his calls stopped.

My colleague had finally succumbed to the Crossfire Hurricane plague, unfathomable stress that drives cancer. Readers don’t even know his name; his wife and two young children know he was a hero.

He did nothing wrong. He was a Remnant.

The mentally ill, weaponized by brazen Democrat lies, harassed nearly all of us. My frequent media appearances made me more recognizable than the smarter, quieter Remnants. That made my family a target of a local retired mailman who was arrested and prosecuted for harassment.

My youngest daughters, just five and seven years old at the time, were often harassed while playing in our front yard. A local elderly woman, an otherwise benign community museum volunteer, posted dozens of times on social media during her daily walks by our house, including photos showing our address. She screamed at my girls and mocked their safety.

The bitter old lady died recently and the nutty mailman is still creeping around. Our family prays for their souls because, like all the Remnants, we know the banality of evil. Unhinged activists, some neighbors, forced us to leave our beloved hometown forever. We miss it every day — especially after a big, beautiful Buffalo snowfall.

It’s worse for some, like Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and the inimitable Roger Stone. Last year Roger and I had a late lunch a few miles from his home. Out of nowhere, an Antifa activist showed up to threaten him in the empty restaurant. Clearly, these pongos are still tracking Roger closely. He did nothing wrong, yet I still fear for his safety.

I have talked to many of the Remnants since Election Day. Some have high hopes; these patriots still believe in our justice system. Others expect nothing at all after seeing enough corruption to believe justice is dead. Most are somewhere in between.

All of us agree the original Russiagate conspiracy continues even today. The Russia hoax was created by Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan, who carries on with his lies today as President Joe Biden’s national security advisor. Christopher Steele, the British spy hired by Clinton to create the dodgy dossier, and his Fusion GPS co-conspirator Glenn Simpson are still doing the same work for similar clients. Andrew Weissmann, Peter Strzok, John Brennan, and more still peddle their lies. Elements of the original conspiracy were woven into Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 American election, then bogus Trump impeachments, January 6th prosecutions, anti-Trump lawfare, and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-lago raid.

FBI Director Patel can prove the original 2016 conspiracy continues today. Much of the evidence remains in federal and public databases. Preemptive pardons aside, that means Sullivan, Weissmann, Mary McCord, Steele, Simpson, Victoria Nuland, Alexander Vindman, Eric Ciaramella, Smith, and others may still be in the jackpot. We agree with attorney Mike Davis: these perpetrators potentially violated 18 U.S.C. § 241 and 242, federal civil rights statutes that prohibit conspiracies to violate the rights of others.

This is where many Remnants stand: please do not forget the families in the ash tray and simply move on. Investigate the perpetrators now, reach back to the beginning of their Russiagate criminal conspiracy and follow it to today. Prosecute them fully and legally; expose how they illegally crushed us.

But do this only in pursuit of true justice — not for retribution, but for accountability and reform.

Michael Caputo worked at the highest levels of global politics for 40 years. He served as HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs during the COVID pandemic and as a senior advisor to the 2016 and 2024 Donald Trump for President campaigns. He is the Jeffrey Bell senior fellow at the American Principles Project.
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You Might Have Missed It, But Ray Epps’ Lawsuit Against Tucker Went Down In Flames

Published on December 8, 2024

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Adam Pack

A federal judge dismissed a January 6th defendant’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its former primetime TV anchor, Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday.

Delaware Federal District Court Judge, Jennifer Hall, ruled that Carlson’s reporting on Epps was protected under the First Amendment because Epps’ lawyers did not prove Carlson had acted with “actual malice.”

“For the reasons announced from the bench today, it is hereby ordered that Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim is granted,” Hall, a Biden appointee, wrote.

Members of the corporate media claimed that Epps would win his lawsuit against Fox News and prove Carlson had acted with “actual malice” in his reporting on the Jan. 6 defendant, according to an MSNBC discussion on the defamation case led by former Republican National Committee chairman and MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele on July 16, 2023, following news of Epps’ lawsuit.

 

“I think what Dominion ushered in this question of actual malice and we saw the $800 million settlement has really ripped open if you will, the opportunity for others to go at Fox News,” former Florida Republican Rep. David Jolly said during the clip.

“They better get out a really big check book because they’re gonna pay heavily,” former Democratic Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards also said.

Judge Hall, however, sided with Fox News’ lawyers and dismissed the lawsuit before it could proceed to trial.

“It is especially clear that any conclusions were only opinions, because the statements were replete with ‘cautionary language’ that signal opinion and interpretation,” Fox News’ lawyers wrote in a memorandum in support of the network’s motion to dismiss Epps’ lawsuit. “In one segment, after showing a video of Plaintiff, Mr. Carlson squarely stated: ‘Once again, you can draw whatever conclusions you like from that video. We have ours and we shared them with you’. Fox opinion hosts were clearly providing their interpretations that listeners could accept or reject based on their own assessment of the fully disclosed facts.”

“First amendment protection for such commentary is essential for our democracy,” the memorandum also stated.

“Epps and his wife have clearly been through a nightmare of threats and innuendo,” Jonathan Turley, Fox News legal commentator wrote on his personal website following the judge’s ruling. “However, this public controversy was discussed by various networks and the Jan. 6th Committee. It was also a matter of legitimate public debate and commentary, with people on both sides expressing their views on the evidence and underlying allegations.”

Epps sued Fox News in July 2023 following Carlson’s comments that suggested Epps may have been a government agent after video footage surfaced showing him the night before Jan. 6, 2021, encouraging Trump supporters to go inside the Capitol the next day, leading to speculation that he may have been an FBI informant.

 

“We’re far beyond that. In fact, tomorrow—I don’t even like to say it because I’ll be arrested—we need to go into the Capitol. We’re here to defend the Constitution,” Epps could be heard saying in the video.

“I’m going to put this out there. I’m probably going to jail for it. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. Peacefully,” Epps added. Someone in the crowd responded by calling Epps a “fed,” the video showed.

Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia James Boasberg sentenced Epps to just 12 months probation on Jan. 9, three years after Epps encouraged Trump supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.

Other Jan. 6 defendants received much longer sentences than Epps. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors offered Epps a misdemeanor plea deal for cooperating with federal authorities and expressing remorse for his actions, and recommended he serve six months in jail for his conduct on and preceding the Jan. 6 riot. Epps was sentenced to twelve months probation in January.

“It’s amazing Ray Epps gets mere probation after there is video evidence he helped incite the January 6th riot, while Trump supporters get sent to prison for months — even years — for trespassing and taking selfies on the Senate floor,” Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project previously told the DCNF. “The FBI protects its own.”

Carlson also accused Epps of lying in his testimony to the January 6th Committee.

 

“Following the dismissals of the Jankowicz, Bobulinski, and now Epps cases, Fox News is pleased with these back-to-back decisions from federal courts preserving the press freedoms of the First Amendment,” Fox News told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a written statement.

Epps’ lawyer did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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