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Around Red Deer May 8th…..
1:44 pm – Earl Dreeshen, Member of Parliament for Red Deer – Mountain View joined an all-party delegation in Washington from May 1-4. The meetings were broad in range but were primarily focused on issues relating to industry, science, and technology. Among the key items discussed were trade issues and how it affects industries on both sides of the border. Dreeshen and his colleagues met with Senators, Members of Congress, and various government and agency officials in this regard.
1:39 pm – The Smiles Thru Lindsey Foundation has committed $10,000 in funding that will go towards a Mental Health First Aid program at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS). This training course will continue to help staff provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Read More.
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10:31 am – Good news to pass along regarding a missing Ponoka woman. RCMP say 22 year old Nikita Rabbit has now been located safe.
10:27 am – The City of Red Deer wants you to know the risks during Emergency Preparedness Week. Read More.
10:26 am – The Town of Innisfail is marking Emergency Preparedness Week with numerous events and activities. Read More.
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10:12 – Street sweeping resumes in the Town for All Seasons again today. Read More.
10:10 am – Attention Sylvan Lake gardeners! A Community Garden Meeting is taking place at the Sylvan Lake Family And Community Centre from 7:00 – 8:30 pm tonight. Read More.
10:02 am – Residential street sweeping continues in Lacombe today. Details here.
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9:54 am – It’s Emergency Preparedness Week. Officials with the Town of Blackfalds want to make sure you and your family are prepared. Find out here.
9:44 am – Residential sweeping will continue in Red Deer today on Grey Routes in the following neighbourhoods: Morrisroe Extension, Morrisroe, Sunnybrook, Anders Park, Anders Park East and Anders South. Click here for details.
9:33 am – So who’s responsible for mowing in Red Deer County? Find out here.
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9:08 am – Blackfalds RCMP have recovered some stolen property that includes an urn with cremated ashes inside. Read More.
8:47 am – A 33 year old Stettler man is facing charges after he was seen fishing from a small boat on Buffalo Lake on Saturday. Fish and Wildlife officials say fishing season is currently closed due to fish spawning and not opening until May 15th. Mounties remind the public that Impaired Driving laws also pertain to boats, off highway vehicles and any other recreational vehicles.
8:19 am – Grade 9 Badminton players from St. Francis of Assisi Middle School will be competing at the CWAJHAA’s today!
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8:11 am – In support of North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week, Grade 4 and 5 students at École Mother Teresa Catholic School in Sylvan Lake will observe today what happens when things go wrong for a distracted student involved in a parking lot collision. The mock incident takes place at 12:00 p.m.
8:04 am – RDC is excited to host students from across Western Canada, who will be attending the annual Alberta Band Association Provincial Festival of Bands from May 8 to 13 and May 15 to 18. About 7,000 Junior, Senior and Community Band students will participate in 10 days of performances, clinics and sight-reading activities.
7:59 am – Some Red Deer Public elementary school students have the chance once again to perform with a professional orchestra tonight! Show times for Choir Kids are 6:00 and 7:30 pm at the New Life Fellowship Church at 20 Kelloway Crescent.
International
Bongino announces FBI will release files on COVID cover up, Mar-a-Lago Raid and more

MxM News
Quick Hit:
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that the bureau will begin releasing information on a number of controversial investigations long shielded from public view.
Key Details:
- 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.
International
UK Supreme Court rules ‘woman’ 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 “woman” in law refers to a biological female, and that transgender “women” 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 “women” are not women, since a woman is legally defined by “biological sex.”
Published April 16, the Supreme Court’s 88-page verdict was handed down on the case of 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 women’s right campaigners who sought to oppose the government’s promotion of transgender ideology.
In 2018, the Scottish government issued a decision to allow the definition of “woman” to include men who assume their gender to be female, opening the door to allowing so-called “transgender” individuals to identify as women.
This guidance was challenged by women’s 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 government’s “legislative competence.”
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 “gender recognition certificate” (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 “reassign” 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 nation’s highest judicial body took up the case.
Today, with the ruling issued against transgender ideology, women’s campaigners are welcoming the news as a win for women’s safety.
“A thing of beauty,” praised Lois McLatchie Miller from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal group.
“They looked at the whole argument, not just who goes in what bathroom and trans women. This is going to change organizations, employers, service providers,” Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph. “Everyone is going to have to pay attention to this, this is from the highest court in the land. It’s saying sex in the Equality Act is biological sex. Self ID is dead.”
“Victory,” 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.
“After 15 years of insanity, the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that men who say they are ‘trans women’ are not women,” wrote leader of the Christian political movement David Kurten.
Leader of the Conservative Party – the opposition to the current Labour government – Kemi Badenoch welcomed the court’s ruling, writing that “saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.”
Others lamented the fact that the debate even was taking place, let alone having gone to the Supreme Court.
“What a parody we live in,” commented Reform Party candidate Joseph Robertson.
Rupert Lowe MP – who has risen to new prominence in recent weeks for his outspoken condemnation of the immigration and rape gang crisis – wrote, “Absolute madness that we’re even debating what a woman is – it’s a biological fact. No amount of woke howling will ever change that.”
However, the Supreme Court did not wish to get pulled into siding with certain arguments, with Lord Hodge of the tribunal stating that “we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”
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 “a disgusting attack on trans rights.” One leading transgender campaigner individual told Sky News, “I 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.”
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