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Are the “Thirtysomething Generation” falling out of love with Red Deer?

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Are the Thirtysomethings falling out of love with Red Deer?

The thirties are the new twenties. Young people are waiting longer to get married and start families. At one time being 30 and single was not cool, but now it is the accepted norm. Has the city of Red Deer changed with the times?

Red Deer has several areas of the dreaded “rush hour” disease, like bigger more metropolitan cities. 32 Street at 7:45 is horrible, Gaetz Ave, at 5:00 is nightmarish. If these thirtysomethings were looking for the big city metropolitan lifestyle, they would have moved to Calgary and Edmonton. One thirty something mother, previously from Calgary, mentioned her love of Red Deer while in her twenties, and early thirties starting a family, but now in her mid-thirties, she loves her neighbourhood but has fallen out of love with the city.

Another thirty something parent, has found it distressing, having to be commuting all the time. There is seldom enough time to pick up and drop off her school age, sports playing children. It no longer takes only 5 minutes to go to the school, go home and have supper and then another 5 minutes to drive to a sports facility. Collicutt Center is off 32Street, one of the worst streets for rush hour traffic, and downtown, home to many sports facilities, is notorious for rush hour traffic after school and games.

These thirty something parents live on the south side of the river, and on paper it looks like short distances and easy commutes but in reality it has the issues of big city traffic.

When the city completes all 5 high schools along 30 Avenue, expands Collicutt Center, off 32 street and 30 avenue, especially after finding the Dawe Centre too old to twin, and after all the shopping centres along 30 Avenue are completed the residents living in the southeast will think they are living along the Deerfoot in Calgary.

If we expand on this issue, and also look at the north side of the river, it becomes increasingly apparent why the population decreased by almost 800 residents, last year just on that side, alone. While the south side has to deal with rush hour traffic over short distances, the north side has to deal with cross city rush hour traffic. While approximately one third of city residents live north of the river they do not have a high school and only the Dawe recreational complex. The south side, do not forget, has 6 indoor ice rinks, 3 aquatic centres, and will have 6 high schools, and there is no plans to resolve this issue, even with the opening up of almost 3,000 acres for development on the north side of the city.

Thirtysomething parents are also increasingly being relied on to look after their aging parents. This older generation, including yours truly, are living longer, and if they cannot live independently, there is little chance that they will be living in Red Deer. Many have started throwing in the towel, and checking out of the city.

Last year while the population of Red Deer shrank by 900 plus residents, towns like Blackfalds and Penhold grew. School registrations may have stagnated in Red Deer, but grew in areas beyond the city limits.

Has Red Deer abandoned the thirty something families, and is that why the thirty somethings have fallen out of love with Red Deer? Will this issue be addressed during the upcoming municipal election? Maybe, it is not for me to say.
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Watch As Tucker Carlson And Glenn Greenwald Get A Good Laugh Over CNN Pretending Biden’s Decline Is Breaking News

Published on May 30, 2025

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Hailey Gomez

During a podcast Friday, Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson and independent journalist Glenn Greenwald couldn’t stop laughing over CNN’s sudden realization of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.

CNN’s Jake Tapper along with Axios’ Alex Thompson released their book, “Original Sin,” on May 20, which details Biden’s cognitive slide over the last four years — a concern Republicans had raised even before the 2020 election. While appearing on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson joked that Greenwald had been “scooped” by CNN on Biden’s mental fitness.

“So you are, I think, the dean of alternative media. You’ve been doing this longer than anybody that I know personally. So it must be a little weird to get scooped by CNN on Joe Biden’s dementia, like you had no idea,” Carlson said. “None of us knew.”

“None of us knew,” Greenwald teased. ” There was that debate, and we were all shocked, but we were told he had a cold. So I was like, ‘OK, he’s on some cold medication. Who hasn’t been there before? It makes you a little dragged, a little groggy, a little just like dragged.’ But no, now Jake Tapper has uncovered the truth. It turns out Joe Biden was in cognitive decline.”

Sources told Tapper and Thompson that Biden’s mental fitness had declined rapidly during his time as president, with his mental state becoming so severe at one point that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair.

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Tapper has faced pushback from both Democrats and Republicans over the timing of his book and the revelations it includes. The CNN host has long defended the former president.

Carlson went on to joke with Greenwald about how he believed Tapper gathered the material for the book.

“Just a hardcore shoe leather investigative reporting,” Greenwald joked. “He’s working his sources, calling all the people in Washington, digging up FOIA documents.”

“It’s one of those things where you kind of can’t believe what you’re witnessing because Jake Tapper is pretending to have uncovered a scandal that he himself led the way in the media, or one of the leaders in the media, in covering up,” Greenwald added. “To the point where if somebody would go on his show and say ‘Joe Biden is obviously in cognitive decline.’ He would say ‘How dare you bully kids who stutter?’”

Greenwald went on to reference how Tapper had accused President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, of “mocking” the former president over his stutter during a 2020 interview.

Despite Lara Trump pointing to what she believed were signs of Biden’s problems, Tapper dismissed her remarks at the time, saying she had “no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.”

In addition to Lara Trump, Tapper also dismissed former Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips during a 2024 interview after Phillips expressed his “concerns” about Biden running for a second term.

“Obviously, he wanted Biden to win desperately and would not tolerate anyone going on the show and saying that Biden was in cognitive decline,” Greenwald said. “Now he’s making millions of dollars off a book.”

Following the media coverage of Tapper’s and Thompson’s book, Biden appeared to tell reporters on Friday he could “beat the hell out of” the two journalists.

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Bongino announces FBI will release files on COVID cover up, Mar-a-Lago Raid and more

Published on May 12, 2025

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that the bureau will begin releasing information on a number of controversial investigations long shielded from public view.

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Bongino said the FBI is clearing information on high-profile cases, including COVID, Crossfire Hurricane, and the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid.
The bureau is actively working with the DOJ on releasing Epstein case details and cracking down on child sexual abuse content.
Bongino dismissed media attacks on FBI Director Kash Patel as “verifiable lies” and accused the press of fabricating stories.

Diving Deeper:

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino disclosed on Saturday that the bureau will begin releasing information previously kept under tight wraps, including cases that many Americans believe were swept under the rug for political or institutional protection.

Bongino, a former NYPD officer, Secret Service agent, and outspoken conservative commentator, took to X to announce that his office has already started cooperating with Congress and the public by providing long-requested information. Among the cases he cited: the attempted assassination of Rep. Steve Scalise, the Nashville Christian school shooting, the Crossfire Hurricane probe, and the COVID-19 origins and cover-up.

“This isn’t business as usual anymore,” Bongino wrote. “We’re clearing information to Congress, and the public, as quickly as possible.”

One of the most politically explosive revelations relates to the FBI’s handling of the Mar-a-Lago raid, an unprecedented move to search the home of the sitting president’s top political opponent, President Donald Trump. Bongino’s announcement signals that internal communications and case files may soon be scrutinized by congressional investigators and the public alike.

Bongino also confirmed that the agency is working closely with the DOJ on the Epstein case, noting the overwhelming volume of child sexual abuse material that must be reviewed. He emphasized that protecting children remains a core mission of the FBI under his and Director Kash Patel’s leadership.

“Operation ‘Restoring Justice,’ where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning,” he wrote. “Think twice if you’ve targeted children, because you’re next.”

The deputy director didn’t hold back in pushing back against media reports that characterized Patel’s leadership as unserious or performative. “The media continue to entirely fabricate stories,” Bongino wrote, describing reports about Patel skipping briefings and attending sports events as “a verifiable lie.”

He defended Patel’s work ethic, noting that the FBI director routinely works 10–12 hour days and meets with top counter-terror officials and global law enforcement partners.