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Around Red Deer May 1st…..

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2:22 pm – RCMP are asking for your help in finding 16 year old Nadia Gursky. She was last seen in Red Deer on April 25th and Police wish to verify her well-being. Nadia Gursky is described as white, 5’6” tall, 165 lbs, long curly red-blonde hair and hazel eyes. If you know where she is, contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

1:45 pm – RCMP are looking for three young male suspects after a man was robbed at gun-point in Blackfalds early this morning. Read More.

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1:41 pm – Repairs begin today on the City of Lacombe’s outdoor Tennis Courts. Read More.

10:44 am – The Town of Innisfail’s Movers & Groovers Adult Walking Group will run at the Innisfail Arena for six weeks starting Monday, May 1! Read More.

10:41 am – Large item pick-up begins in the Town of Innisfail today! Read More.

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10:34 am – Sylvan Lake’s Annual Spring Clean-Up is now underway. Pitch-In Week runs from May 1 – 7. Read More.

10:23 am – Blackfalds Annual Municipal Census begins today! Read More.

10:17 am – A number of Free activities are available for youth in Penhold this week. Check out the Town’s Facebook Page for more information. Details Here.

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10:04 am – An unfounded bomb threat shut down Red Deer’s Collicutt Centre on Sunday night. Read More.

9:58 am – The careless disposal of oily rags has been identified as the cause of a house fire in Red Deer’s Morrisroe neighbourhood on Friday. Read More.

9:35 am – The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division is re-evaluating it’s process for third party classroom presentations, after a controversial one from Red Deer & Area Pro-Life that was presented to Grade 10 students at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School last month. This means a new guiding set of procedures is now being developed so teaching staff can be provided clear direction on how they will be involved before, during and after any presentation to ensure the integrity of the lesson. In the meantime, any future presentations will be vetted until these procedures can be formally included in the division’s Administrative Procedures.

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9:21 am – A Red Deer man is facing charges after RCMP arrested a man attempting to use a slip tank from another vehicle to pump gas into what turned out to be a stolen truck. 30 year old Kyle Earl Harstad of Red Deer has been charged.

9:09 am – Lacombe County is allocating it’s 2016 Budget Surplus of $1,447,110.46 to it’s Bridge Reserve, Tax Rate Stabilization Reserve and Recreation Capital Assistance Reserve. Each will receive $480,000. The remaining $7,110.46 will remain in unrestricted surplus.

8:59 am – Officials with Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools are asking students, parents and guardians to recognize and Thank all School Bus Driver today. It’s School Bus Driver Appreciation Day! Elsewhere, at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School, Badminton teams will play against each other with the top two teams moving onto provincials on Friday, May 5.

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8:44 am – Elementary students in the Red Deer Public School District have a chance tonight and next Monday, May 8th to take part in Choir Kids at the New Life Fellowship Church on Kelloway Crescent. Choir Kids is a unique program for elementary students to rehearse and perform with a professional orchestra. This event showcases the Division’s amazing music and choral programs and provides great exposure to a new realm of music. Students have the opportunity to collaborate and perform with peers, other teachers and professional musicians! Read More.

8:32 am – Seven students from École Secondaire Notre Dame High School will be moving onto the Skills Alberta Competition on May 10 and 11 in Edmonton. The 2017 Regional Skills Competition was on April 27, 2017. The following students are the winners in the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) areas: In Baking, Keana Fraser, Grade 12 won silver and is going onto provincials. Electrical Installations, Adam Holmes, Grade 11 won bronze, Shawn Rowland, Grade 11 won silver and is going onto provincials & Jared Wilkens, Grade 10 won gold and is going onto provincials. In Hairstyling Junior, Hailey Foster, Grade 11 won bronze, Allie Bradford, Grade 10 won gold and is going onto provincials. In Hairstyling Intermediate, Kenzie Armitage, Grade 12 won silver and is going onto provincials. In Welding, Jessica Wohlgemuth, Grade 12 won gold and is going onto provincials.

8:08 am – A Red Deer man and woman were arrested at a Markerville campground April 27th and charged with being in possession of a stolen truck, other stolen items, stolen I.D. and weapons. The pair are due in Red Deer court May 2nd. Read More.

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Scientific Report Pours Cold Water On Major Talking Point Of Climate Activists

Published on May 7, 2024

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE

The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified.

Widely accepted data show an overall greening of Earth resulting from a cycle of natural warming that began more than 300 years ago and from industrialization’s additions of CO₂ that started in the 19^th century and accelerated with vigorous economic activity following World War II.

Also attributed to these and other factors is record crop production, which now sustains 8 billion people—ten times the population prior to the Industrial Revolution. The boost in atmospheric CO₂ since 1940 alone is linked to yield increases for corn, soybeans and wheat of 10%, 30% and 40%, respectively.

The positive contribution of carbon dioxide to the human condition should be cause for celebration, but this is more than demonizers of the gas can abide. Right on cue, narrators of a planet supposedly overheating from carbon dioxide began sensationalizing research findings that increased plant volume results in lower concentrations of nutrients in food.

“The potential health consequences are large, given that there are already billions of people around the world who don’t get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily diet,” concluded the The New York Times, a reliable promoter of apocalypse forever. Among others chiming in have been The Lancet, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health.

Of course, such yellow journalism lacks context and countervailing facts —elements provided in “Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO₂ Concentrations” published by the CO₂Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.

Any deficiency of nutrients from the enhancement of plant growth by elevated carbon dioxide “are small, compared to the nutrient shortages that agriculture and livestock routinely face because of natural phenomena, such as severe soil fertility differences, nutrient dilution in plants due to rainfall or irrigation and even aging of crops,” says the paper.

And while there is evidence of marginal decreases in some nutrients, data also show that higher levels of CO₂ “may enhance certain groups of health-promoting phytochemicals in food crops” that serve as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, says the paper, which lists seven authors and more than 100 references. The lead author is Albrecht Glatzle, a member of the Rural Association of Paraguay and a former international researcher of plant and animal nutrition.

Among other points made by the paper are the following: Throughout a majority of geological history, atmospheric CO₂ concentrations have been several times higher than today’s, which are less than optimum for most plants; atmospheric warming from even a quadrupling of CO₂ concentrations would be small compared to natural temperature fluctuations since the last glacial advance more than 10,000 years ago.

Having virtually no scientific basis, the “green” movement’s hostility to carbon dioxide seemingly ignores the gas’s critical role as a plant food. As the paper notes, “CO₂ is the only source of the chemical element carbon for all life on Earth, be it for plants, animals or fungi and bacteria — through photosynthesis and food chains.”

The so-called greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide— perversely exaggerated to support climate fearmongering— is a life-saving temperature moderator that keeps Earth from freezing over.

The obvious benefits of CO₂ is “an embarrassment to the large and profitable movement to ‘save the planet’ from ‘carbon pollution,’” write the authors. “If CO₂ greatly benefits agriculture and forestry and has a small, benign effect on climate, it is not a pollutant at all.

More CO₂ is good news. It’s not that complicated.

Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist; executive director of the CO₂ Coalition, Arlington, Va.; author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know” and “A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefiting humanity” and a co-author of “Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO₂ Concentrations.”

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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NYPD says protesters had weapons, gas masks and ‘Death to America!’ pamphlets

Published on May 4, 2024

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NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry posted on X photos of items he said the police confiscated from protesters who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

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By Tom Gantert

“These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious”

A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with “Death to America!” written on them.

Michael Kemper, a NYPD’s chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters.

“For those romanticizing the protests occurring on college campuses, ‘Death to America!’ is one sentiment that runs counter to what we believe in, what we stand for, and what many have fought for on behalf of this country,” Kemper stated on X. “And if you think the words written on this piece of paper are disturbing … you should hear the vile, disgusting, hateful, & threatening words coming out of the mouths of far too many of these so called ‘peaceful protestors.’”

Kemper posted a video of a pamphlet that stated, “Death to Israeli Real Estate” and “Death to America!” The pamphlet also stated, “DISRUPT/RECLAIM/DESTROY Zionist business interests everywhere!”

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry posted on X photos of items he said the police confiscated from protesters who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. The photo showed gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on terrorism. The book is by Charles Townshend, Professor of International History at Keele University in England. It was published in 2011 and is 161 pages.

“These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious,” Daughtry said on X. “Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it.”

Kemper asked who was organizing the protests.

“However, as we have been stating for the past 2 weeks, there is an underlying radical indoctrination of some of these students. Vulnerable and young people being influenced by professional agitators. Who is funding and leading this movement?” Kemper asked on X.

Kemper also posted a letter from The New School requesting the NYPD’s assistance in removing protesters from their campus on Friday.

“The actions and continuing escalation of these individuals are a substantial disruption of the educational environment and regular operations of the university,” the letter stated.

The New School is a university in New York City. It closed all academic building on Friday and classes were moved to online. The college said classes on campus would resume Saturday.

Fox News reported that 56 protesters were arrested at The New School and New York University.