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2:00 pm – An investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) and Didsbury RCMP has resulted in Child Pornography charges being laid against a Didsbury resident. Read More.
12:28 pm – Lacombe County Council decided to defer the further study into a potential boat launch at Anderson Park. This boat launch was considered for the east shore of Gull Lake at the County-run Anderson Park, which is located between the Wilson’s Beach and New Saratoga residential subdivisions. Read More.
12:19 pm – Red Deer’s Safe Harbour Society is receiving $36,151 from the Alberta Government for maintenance and upgrades that address fire, health and safety risks. Read More.
12:13 pm – Spending Canada Day in Red Deer? Here’s what going on in our City to celebrate Canada 150!
12:03 pm – Lindsay Thurber student Ursulla Khan has been named as one of 32 students from across Alberta to sit on the Minster’s Youth Council. Read More.
9:58 am – The 2017 All Canada Sheep Classic starts today at Westerner Park! June 29 – July 1. Details Here.
9:29 am – Live tune on the Ross Street Patio from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm today! Read More.
9:17 am – Road construction continues throughout Red Deer today. Plan your travels by avoiding the congestion. Details Here.
9:10 am – The City of Red Deer has provided an update on the 67th Street / Johnstone Drive Roundabout project. Expect construction to continue there throughout the summer. Read More.

9:00 am – The outdoor tennis courts in Red Deer’s Rotary Recreation Park are expected to re-open Saturday, July 1st after resurfacing work this spring. Read More.

 8:49 am – Ponoka RCMP are hoping you can help them find 34 year old Joseph Buffalo. He’s been reported as missing and was last seen on June 26th around 1:30 pm in the area of the Centennial Centre in Ponoka. He’s described as 5’11” tall, 180 lbs, Brown hair, Brown eyes and last seen wearing a navy sweater and grey sweat pants.
8:43 am – RCMP in Rocky Mountain House are investigating after a break, enter, and theft from the “The Beer Cabin” liquor store In Nordegg. It happened around 4:30 a.m. on June 28th. Officers responded and found the suspects had already left. The suspect vehicle is described as a white Ford F-250 or F-350, possibly a diesel, was used to force entry into the liquor store and then several males entered the store and stole property.  Two men in the group were seen to have guns and were making efforts to disguise their identity. There were no employees present in the liquor store at the time of the incident. Investigators have been provided a partial license plate for the suspect vehicle: BJJ5(Alberta).

8:35 am – After receiving tips from the public, charges have been laid against 23 year old Jared McLeod of Red Deer in relation to an April 23rd vehicle theft at the Best Western Hotel in Rimbey. Read More.

8:21 am – It’s a special day in the City of Lacombe today. Dignitaries such as Lacombe MP Blaine Calkins, MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka Ron Orr and Mayor Steve Christie will celebrate the arrival of the LAVIII Monument. It’s part of the Lacombe Afghanistan Memorial Project. The event takes place at 1:00 pm at the Lacombe Legion Hall at 5138 49th Street.

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8:11 am – Today is the official last day of classes for thousands of Red Deer Catholic Regional School students. However, Graduation ceremonies will take place on Friday, June 30th for students of Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School in Red Deer and St. Dominic Catholic High School in Rocky Mountain House. Notre Dame’s Grad will be at the Enmax Centrium starting at 10:00 am, while St. Dominic’s Grad will be at the Lou Soppit Community Centre in Rocky starting at 5:00 pm.

7:58 am – Students at Red Deer’s Gateway Christian School will be celebrating their graduation with family and friends today. Grad ceremonies take place at the First Christian Reformed Church starting at 4:30 pm.

7:53 am – Today marks the last day of school for over ten thousand Red Deer Public School students. This means there will also be an early dismissal this afternoon and report cards will be sent home.

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Facebook / Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Experience

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Earlier this week Mark Zuckerberg rocked the world of information with the news that Facebook, Instagram, and his other Meta properties would no longer use third party fact checking groups to censor information.  As the week wraps up, Zuckerberg sits down for an extended conversation with Joe Rogan.  For anyone interested in the world of information, this is a must see / listen.

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Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc., the company behind Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Meta Quest, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Orion augmented reality glasses, and other digital platforms, devices, and services.

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‘Embarrassingly Wrong’: Corporate Media’s Talking Heads Confess Their Biggest Blunders Of 2024

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Owen Klinsky

From MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to businessman and television personality Mark Cuban, a slew of media leaders divulged what they got wrong this past year in a Semafor article published Monday.

Media missteps included NBC News President Rebecca Blumenstein underestimating the impact of inflation on politics, Fox News anchor Dana Perino incorrectly predicting Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would get engaged and CNBC financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin not putting “DOGE and the pairing of Elon [Musk] and Vivek [Ramaswamy]” on his 2024 Bingo card, according to the piece. Despite the variety of answers, one topic — Joe Biden’s lack of mental acuity —  seemed to sit at the top of the list for many respondents.

“Like many others, I was completely, utterly, totally, embarrassingly wrong about [President Joe] Biden’s lack of mental competence,” progressive British-American broadcaster Mehdi Hasan told Semafor.

 

 

Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election in July following a disastrous June debate performance in which he appeared to lose his train of thought several times and stated he “beat Medicare.” Prior to the decision to exit the race, the White House made various efforts to mask the effects of his age, with the president wearing sneakers rather than dress shoes and taking shorter steps up Air Force One.

The White House actively denied claims Biden’s mental health was declining, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre characterizing a video of the President wandering away from world leaders at the G7 Summit as a “cheap fake” and claiming it was orchestrated by Republicans. Much of the corporate media supported the White House’s effort, with panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe describing a June article from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that detailed the president’s declining mental health as “outrageous,” and CNN’s Bakari Sellers suggesting in July, well after the debate, that there was no reason to believe Biden could not serve for another four years.

Other examples of the media downplaying concerns over Biden’s mental acuity include The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg rushing to the president’s defense after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Biden could have a “senior moment” on stage prior to the debate and MSNBC analyst Mike Barnicle describing members of the Democratic Party as cruel in July for trying to oust the president from the 2024 race.

More recently, former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza apologized in a YouTube video posted in December for waiting too long to investigate concerns that Biden’s mental acuity was deteriorating, admitting that as a journalist he should have “pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being.”

American talk show host Brian Lehrer made a similar apology in his response to Semafor: “Many callers to my show said Joe Biden was in no shape to run for re-election. I mostly dismissed it as ageism. Then I watched the debate.”

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