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Over 800 Grand In Affordable Housing Investments Announced For Red Deer
By Sheldon Spackman
Low income families and seniors in Red Deer stand to benefit from an affordable housing investment announced by the Provincial government on Friday. Over $816,000 in joint funding from the Provincial and Federal governments will be allocated to community housing tenants through the Red Deer Housing Authority, Piper Creek Foundation, Parkland Community Living and Supports Society and Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.
Officials say the funding will be used for projects like furnace upgrades, hot water tank replacements and new doors and windows. There are 11 projects affecting about 24 units in Red Deer to receive renovations and repairs, including social housing and senior’s buildings.
Minister of Seniors and Housing Lori Sigurdson says “This is certainly a really good step forward and our big investment of $800,000 is significant but I know there’s more to be done and certainly we work with the housing management bodies to ensure that they are done.” Sigurdson adds, “It’s so important for people to have well maintained housing and be able to stay in their communities where their family and friends are.” Sigurdson says people don’t want to have to leave for larger centres, so this investment creates jobs locally and helps make the lives of these residents better.
Scott McKee is the former board chair of the Red Deer Housing Authority and says this investment will help them rent out these homes again that are currently in desperate need of renovations and repairs.
Red Deer North MLA Kim Schreiner says “I’m very excited about the announcement today. I think it’s wonderful news for Red Deerians. This will help 24 families to live in a place that’s safer and more efficient.”
The federal and provincial governments are providing combined funding of more than $57 million across Alberta for affordable housing capital maintenance projects through 2018.
International
UK Supreme Court rules āwomanā 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 āwomanā in law refers to a biological female, and that transgender āwomenā 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 āwomenā are not women, since a woman is legally defined by ābiological sex.ā
PublishedĀ April 16, the Supreme Courtās 88-page verdict was handed down on the case ofĀ 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 womenās right campaigners who sought to oppose the governmentās promotion of transgender ideology.
In 2018, the Scottish government issued a decision to allow the definition of āwomanā to include men who assume their gender to be female, opening the door to allowing so-called ātransgenderā individuals to identify as women.
This guidance was challenged by womenās 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 governmentās ālegislative competence.ā
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 āgender recognition certificateā (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 āreassignā 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 nationās highest judicial body took up the case.
Today, with the ruling issued against transgender ideology, womenās campaigners are welcoming the news as a win for womenās safety.
āA thing of beauty,āĀ praisedĀ Lois McLatchie Miller from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal group.
āThey looked at the whole argument, not just who goes in what bathroom and trans women. This is going to change organizations, employers, service providers,ā Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph.Ā āEveryone is going to have to pay attention to this, this is from the highest court in the land. Itās saying sex in the Equality Act is biological sex. Self ID is dead.ā
āVictory,āĀ 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.
āAfter 15 years of insanity, the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that men who say they are ātrans womenā are not women,ā wrote leader of the Christian political movement David Kurten.
Leader of the Conservative Party ā the opposition to the current Labour government ā Kemi BadenochĀ welcomedĀ the courtās ruling, writing that āsaying ātrans women are womenā was never true in fact and now isnāt true in law, either.ā
Others lamented the fact that the debate even was taking place, let alone having gone to the Supreme Court.
āWhat a parody we live in,āĀ commentedĀ Reform Party candidate Joseph Robertson.
Rupert Lowe MP ā who has risen to new prominence in recent weeks for his outspoken condemnation of the immigration and rape gang crisis āĀ wrote, āAbsolute madness that weāre even debating what a woman is ā itās a biological fact. No amount of woke howling will ever change that.ā
However, the Supreme Court did not wish to get pulled into siding with certain arguments, with Lord Hodge of the tribunal stating that āwe counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.ā
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 āa disgusting attack onĀ transĀ rights.ā One leading transgender campaigner individualĀ toldĀ Sky News, āI 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.ā
International
Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump she has āevidenceā voting machines are āvulnerable to hackersā

From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
Last month, Trump signed anĀ executive orderĀ directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states ācomplying 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.ā
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.
āWe 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,ā she said about a half hour into the meeting.
Gabbardās 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.
āMike Lindell along with MANY others vindicated!!ā she exclaimed on X. āAnother 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!!!ā
Last month, Trump signed anĀ executive orderĀ directing federal election-related funds to be conditioned on states ācomplying 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.ā
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 ācontroversialā 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 withĀ 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 āfurther drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.ā
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