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Around Red Deer April 24th…..

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2:33 pm – RCMP are looking for a suspect after a 49 year old man was beat up in Red Deer’s Riverside Meadows neighbourhood on April 21st. Read More.

2:15 pm – A Teacher from RDC has been honoured with a 2016 Top Instructor Award! Read More.

2:01 pm – École Secondaire Notre Dame High School fine arts students will gather to celebrate theatre arts by participating in the Zone 4 West One-Act Play Festival on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Read More!

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1:53 pm – Red Deer RCMP have made several arrests over the past 12 days and seized numerous stolen vehicles, i.d. and other items in the process. Read More.

10:25 am – Charges have now been laid against two men accused of crashing a stolen truck that fled Police into a house in Red Deer’s Clearview Ridge neighbourhood on April 21st. Read More.

10:18 am – Just a reminder of the road construction underway in Lacombe this week. From April 24-27, ATCO Gas crews will be working in the intersection of Highway 2A and 50 Avenue decommissioning an old gas main. Lane restrictions will be in effect for eastbound traffic on 50 Avenue. Please use 47 Avenue or Wolf Creek Drive as alternate routes. More details here.

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10:05 am – The École Secondaire Notre Dame High School Boys Handball team played in the Zone Final Friday night. After a slow start, the Boys got their act together and ran away with the game. Up 11 – 5 at the half, the Boys rolled to 27-11 victory over Hunting Hills! The team will now take part in Provincials starting on Thursday at 6:40pm, then again at 11:40am Friday morning. Games can be live streamed at this link.

9:56 am – Have a nice looking property in Red Deer County? Have it nominated to be part of the 2017 Rural Beautification Tour! Read More.

9:45 am – City staff in Lacombe have been taking advantage of the few nice days we’ve had this spring to upgrade the Michener Park campsites. They’ve added new gravel to all the camping sites, all around the fire pits and the picnic tables. City officials say the road leading into the campsites will be refinished as well. Once the work is finished, the campground will look like new again, and better serve the recreation needs of campers well into the future.

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9:35 am – Street sweeping resumes in Blackfalds again today:

Parkwood Road
Prairie Ridge Ave.
Prairie ridge Cl.
Pinewood Cl.
Premier Cr.
Prospect Cl.
Parkside Cr.
Cascade
Coachill St.
Cooper Cr.

9:28 am – Firefighters from around the Region, including the Town of Penhold, took part in some training in Red Deer on Saturday. Along with Ponoka County Fire and Rescue, trainess were kept busy at the City of Red Deer training grounds performing live fire training drills. Students maneuvered through a smoke filled three story building for search and rescue exercises, climbed the aerial ladder, extinguished a simulated car fire and learned about over haul once the fire is out. 

9:02 am – Grade 8 Girls singles and doubles Badminton will be playing in the city finals at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School today. The games will take place between 4 – 8 pm.

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8:39 am – Blackfalds RCMP are looking for a stolen excavator. It’s a Caterpillar 345CL excavator, from a work site near the intersection of Highway 2 and Highway 597 (Blackfalds/Joffre exit). It’s believed the excavator was loaded on a flat deck trailer being towed by a Semi Truck. The excavator was loaded 200 yards North of the Blindman Bridge on Highway 2, in the North bound lanes, so an entire lane would likely have been blocked during the loading process. The incident occurred sometime between 7:30 pm on April 21 and 7:00 am on April 22.

8:34 am – A Boil Water Advisory is in place for seven properties in Red Deer’s Westpark neighbourhood. Read More.

8:22 am – The Boil Water Advisory previously issued for the Hamlet of Springbrook is now over. Read More.

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CBC journalist quits, accuses outlet of anti-Conservative bias and censorship

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

Travis Dhanraj accused CBC of pushing a ‘radical political agenda,’ and his lawyer said that the network opposed him hosting ‘Conservative voices’ on his show.

CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj has resigned from his position, while accusing the outlet of anti-Conservative bias and ”performative diversity.”

In a July 7 letter sent to colleagues and obtained by various media outlets, Travis Dhanraj announced his departure from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) due to concerns over censorship.

“I am stepping down not by choice, but because the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has made it impossible for me to continue my work with integrity,” he wrote.

“After years of service — most recently as the host of Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj — I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against, and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfill my public service role,” he declared.

Dhanraj, who worked as a CBC host and reporter for nearly a decade, revealed that the outlet perpetuated a toxic work environment, where speaking out against the approved narrative led to severe consequences.

Dhanraj accused CBC of having a “radical political agenda” that stifled fair reporting. Additionally, his lawyer, Kathryn Marshall, revealed that CBC disapproved of him booking “Conservative voices” on his show.

While CBC hails itself as a leader in “diversity” and supporting minority groups, according to Dhanraj, it’s all a facade.

“What happens behind the scenes at CBC too often contradicts what’s shown to the public,” he revealed.

In April 2024, Dhanraj, then host of CBC’s Canada Tonight, posted on X that his show had requested an interview with then-CBC President Catherine Tait to discuss new federal budget funding for the public broadcaster, but she declined.

“Internal booking and editorial protocols were weaponized to create structural barriers for some while empowering others—particularly a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists,” he explained.

According to Marshall, CBC launched an investigation into the X post, viewing it as critical of Tait’s decision to defend executive bonuses while the broadcaster was cutting frontline jobs. Dhanraj was also taken off air for a time.

Dhanraj revealed that in July 2024 he was “presented with (a non-disclosure agreement) tied to an investigation about a tweet about then CBC President Catherine Tait. It was designed not to protect privacy, but to sign away my voice. When I refused, I was further marginalized.”

Following the release of his letter, Dhanraj published a link on X to a Google form to gather support from Canadians.

“When the time is right, I’ll pull the curtain back,” he wrote on the form. “I’ll share everything…. I’ll tell you what is really happening inside the walls of your CBC.”

CBC has issued a statement denying Dhanraj’s claims, with CBC spokesperson Kerry Kelly stating that the Crown corporation “categorically rejects” his statement.

This is hardly the first time that CBC has been accused of editorial bias. Notably, the outlet receives the vast majority of its funding from the Liberal government.

This January, the watchdog for the CBC ruled that the state-funded outlet expressed a “blatant lack of balance” in its covering of a Catholic school trustee who opposed the LGBT agenda being foisted on children.

There have also been multiple instances of the outlet pushing what appears to be ideological content, including the creation of pro-LGBT material for kids, tacitly endorsing the gender mutilation of children, promoting euthanasia, and even seeming to justify the burning of mostly Catholic churches throughout the country.

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CBS settles with Trump over doctored 60 Minutes Harris interview

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CBS will pay Donald Trump more than $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2024 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The deal also includes a new rule requiring unedited transcripts of future candidate interviews.

Key Details:

  • Trump will receive $16 million immediately to cover legal costs, with remaining funds earmarked for pro-conservative messaging and future causes, including his presidential library.
  • CBS agreed to release full, unedited transcripts of all future presidential candidate interviews—a policy insiders are calling the “Trump Rule.”
  • Trump’s lawsuit accused CBS of deceptively editing a 60 Minutes interview with Harris in 2024 to protect her ahead of the election; the FCC later obtained the full transcript after a complaint was filed.

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CBS and Paramount Global have agreed to pay President Donald Trump more than $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2024 60 Minutes interview with then–Vice President Kamala Harris, Fox News Digital reported Tuesday. Trump accused the network of election interference, saying CBS selectively edited Harris to shield her from backlash in the final stretch of the campaign.

The settlement includes a $16 million upfront payment to cover legal expenses and other discretionary uses, including funding for Trump’s future presidential library. Additional funds—expected to push the total package well above $30 million—will support conservative-aligned messaging such as advertisements and public service announcements.

As part of the deal, CBS also agreed to a new editorial policy mandating the public release of full, unedited transcripts of any future interviews with presidential candidates. The internal nickname for the new rule is reportedly the “Trump Rule.”

Trump initially sought $20 billion in damages, citing a Face the Nation preview that aired Harris’s rambling response to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That portion of the interview was widely mocked. A more polished answer was aired separately during a primetime 60 Minutes special, prompting allegations that CBS intentionally split Harris’s answer to minimize political fallout.

The FCC later ordered CBS to release the full transcript and raw footage after a complaint was filed. The materials confirmed that both versions came from the same response—cut in half across different broadcasts.

CBS denied wrongdoing but the fallout rocked the network. 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned in April after losing control over editorial decisions. CBS News President Wendy McMahon also stepped down in May, saying the company’s direction no longer aligned with her own.

Several CBS veterans strongly opposed any settlement. “The unanimous view at 60 Minutes is that there should be no settlement, and no money paid, because the lawsuit is complete bulls***,” one producer told Fox News Digital. Correspondent Scott Pelley had warned that settling would be “very damaging” to the network’s reputation.

The final agreement includes no admission of guilt and no direct personal payment to Trump—but it locks in a substantial cash payout and forces a new standard for transparency in how networks handle presidential interviews.

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