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Downtown Business Spotlight: Urban Farmhouse Fabric

This week’s Business Spotlight shines on Downtown’s Urban Farmhouse Fabric, located at #140 4828 – 53 Street. This local business offers quality quilt fabric, drop-in sewing classes and retreats as well as all the tools you need for your latest project! Read on to learn more.
What is your business?
Urban Farmhouse Fabric is a modern and traditional quilt fabric store with 100% cotton fabrics, flannels, batiks, backings, notions precuts and patterns – everything you need in one store!
When did you open?
We opened our doors in 2016, across the street and have grown so much since that we moved across the way to a larger space! We now offer a fully accessible space for all your sewing needs and look forward to showing you around.
What are some products/services that you offer?
Urban Farmhouse Fabric strives to offer the best selection of fabrics, sewing notions, quilting supplies (and more!) that the industry has to offer…not to mention the friendliest service around! We also offer a variety of classes in our classroom space next door, from beginner to expert we have a class for every skill level. At each class you will benefit from the knowledge of our expert instructors and leave with a refreshed sense of confidence in your abilities.
Why did you choose Downtown Red Deer as the location for your business?
We wanted to stay central to not only all of the Red Deer but also the surrounding communities. We know that many travel to visit us, so having such a large variety of businesses around us is a benefit to our travelling customers – it’s a one-stop-shop type of a deal!
What do you think makes Downtown vibrant?
The many community events and the proud members of the Downtown Business Association. There is so much to take in Downtown year-round, it would be a shame to miss it.
I love Downtown Red Deer because…
It is the heart of our beautiful city. Downtown has the perfect number of shops and services, you would be hard-pressed to not find what you are looking for! We especially love Ross Street for the many music and arts festivals that take place down there!
Check out Urban Farmhouse Fabric on Facebook for the latest deals!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UrbanFarmhouseFabric
Check back next week for another business spotlight! If you would like to see your Downtown business spotlighted, please contact us at 403-340-8696 or [email protected].
Business
Trump’s FBI questionnaire exposes shocking conspiracy

Quick Hit:
Mary Rooke’s recent op-ed in The Daily Caller highlights how President Trump’s administration has uncovered what she terms as a major conspiracy within the FBI, where agents were allegedly reassigned from critical child pornography investigations to pursue cases against January 6 protestors.
Key Points:
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The FBI diverted resources from a child pornography investigation to focus on January 6 riot cases.
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Trump’s questionnaire to FBI employees revealed that approximately 5,000 agents were dedicated to Capitol riot investigations.
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Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, aims to cleanse the agency of personnel working against its mission.
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The op-ed questions the prioritization of law enforcement efforts under previous administration.
Diving Deeper:
In her commentary published on February 6, 2025, for The Daily Caller, Mary Rooke delves into what she describes as a shocking revelation within the FBI, facilitated by a straightforward questionnaire from President Donald Trump. According to Rooke, this has exposed a disturbing shift in priorities under the previous administration.
Rooke references an investigation initially reported by The Daily Wire in November 2023, which exposed an incident from January 2021. She details how the FBI, allegedly under Biden’s administration, redirected its focus from a significant child pornography case involving Brogan Welsh to prosecute those involved in the January 6 Capitol riot. “Despite overwhelming evidence proving that Welsh was a danger to children, the FBI decided to drop the investigation in order to go after Trump supporters,” Rooke asserts, highlighting what she calls a “major conspiracy the left has demonized conservative media for covering.”
She provides specifics on Welsh’s case: “The Washington Bureau tracked Brogan Welsh through the IP address he used to send their undercover agent explicit messages expressing his intent to rape a young boy. Welsh apparently sent a video of ‘a prepubescent minor male being anally penetrated by an adult male’s erect penis,'” according to the Daily Wire’s report.
Further, Rooke notes that Welsh’s activities were uncovered by the FBI’s Alaska bureau after they found evidence suggesting he might have been sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy. She quotes, “On October 24, 2023, after coming across troubling chats from Welsh on a phone they seized from a different alleged pervert, Alaska FBI agents went into his house and ‘located items including sex toys that are very small in size and apparently consistent with the body size of an approximate 10-year-old boy,’ as well as children’s underwear.”
Rooke criticizes the FBI’s decision to abandon this investigation, particularly when it was revealed through Trump’s questionnaire that 5,000 FBI employees were involved in January 6 cases. “How many child rapists went without prosecution so the FBI could send armed agents to terrorize American grandmothers in their homes? How many criminals came across the southern border? How many of the cyber attacks we experienced during the Biden administration could have been prevented had the FBI focused on protecting our country?” she questions, underscoring the potential neglect of other serious crimes due to this shift in focus.
She also discusses the contentious confirmation hearings for Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, who has vowed to “purge the agency of personnel who have worked against the mission to keep America safe.” Democrats have been criticized for their attempts to delay his confirmation, which Rooke sees as an obstruction to necessary reforms within the FBI.
Rooke concludes her op-ed by emphasizing the broader implications of these actions, suggesting that the Trump administration’s efforts are part of a larger movement to restore accountability and integrity to federal law enforcement. She posits, “For decades, the federal government has operated as if it wasn’t accountable to the American people. The Trump administration has been working diligently to clean out the rot… If Trump keeps up this pace, we might actually get our country back.”
This detailed analysis by Rooke paints a picture of political manipulation within one of America’s key law enforcement agencies, stirring significant debate on the balance between national security, justice, and political motivations.
Business
Canadian commission suggests more gov’t money for mainstream media to fight ‘misinformation’

From LifeSiteNews
Foreign Interference Commission Justice Marie-Josée Hogue recommended in her final report on election interference that additional taxpayer money be pumped into legacy media outlets that are already receiving billions from the government to make sure news is ‘trustworthy and of good quality.’
The Foreign Interference Commission in one of its many recommendations suggested that the Canadian government hand out millions of additional dollars to legacy media outlets for combating supposed “misinformation and disinformation.”
The suggestion to pump up legacy media with more taxpayer money was made by Foreign Interference Commission Justice Marie-Josée Hogue in her final report on election interference that was released last week. It was one of 51 recommendations from her investigation into election meddling in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Hogue’s 44th recommendation reads that the federal government, which already spends billions to support legacy media, “should pursue discussions with media organizations and the public around modernizing media funding and economic models to support professional media, including local and foreign language media, while preserving media independence and neutrality.”
According to Houge, “Traditional journalism is struggling,” and because of this “Media organizations are facing financial challenges as citizens turn away from mainstream media, and towards social media or non-traditional platforms that may, for a variety of reasons, be more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation.”
Houge noted that she was on board with a Department of Canadian Heritage witness who testified at a commission hearing that Canadian media should be supported to make sure news is “trustworthy and of good quality.”
“I share their concern about Canada’s professional media. Canada must have a press that is strong and free,” Hogue said.
“It is crucial to have credible and reliable sources of information to counterbalance misinformation and disinformation,” she added.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, the final report from the Foreign Interference Commission concluded that operatives from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have had a hand in helping to elect a handful of MPs in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections.
Hogue urged in her January 28 final report that Canada “remain vigilant because the threat of foreign interference is real,” but stopped short of saying CCP interference was influential enough to tilt the outcomes of the elections.
When it comes to legacy media in Canada, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that it will spend millions more propping up the mostly state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
This extra funding comes despite the fact the Department of Canadian Heritage has admitted payouts to the CBC are not sufficient to keep legacy media outlets running.
There have been many cases where the CBC has appeared to push 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.
Furthermore, in October, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s department admitted that federally funded media outlets buy “social cohesion.”
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