Central Alberta
Four shot and two in custody on Central Alberta O’Chiese First Nation
From Alberta RCMP
Police responding to active threat on O’Chiese First Nation
At 5:08 p.m. on April 5, 2021, Rocky Mountain House RCMP received a complaint of a male shot at residence on the Sunchild First Nation. A second report of a shooting was received at 5:34 p.m. at the Marketplace on the O’Chiese First Nation and reports of second male had also been shot. At 5:55 p.m. a third report of a shooting at a residence was received with two males being reported as having been shot.
RCMP officers from neighboring detachments along with the RCMP Emergency Response Team, Air Services and Police Dog Services PDS) were called in to assist.
With the assistance of the O’Chiese Fire Department, residents were advised to shelter in place.
One suspect was tracked by Air Services and arrested by RCMP members on the ground.
PDS located a track near one of the scenes and as a result a second suspect was located and arrested.
The investigation indicates that the suspects were both travelling on an ATV and then after the initial shooting, the suspects stole the victim’s ATV.
The four adult male victims aged 18, 19, 20 and 34 were evacuated from the scene and transported to a local area hospital. Two of the victims, the 34 year-old and 19-year-old were then transported by STARS to Calgary and Edmonton hospitals. Three of the victims are reported to be in stable condition. The 34-year-old male was reported to be in serious but stable condition.
Keith Beaverbones (28) and Zachary Yellowface (19) both from the O’Chiese First Nation, have each been charged with four counts of attempted murder.
In addition, Zachary Yellowface has also been charged with:
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm
- Possession of a firearm knowing the possession is unauthorized
- Possession of a prohibited firearm
- Theft of a motor vehicle
- Flight from peace officer
- Resist arrest
After a Judicial hearing both Beaverbones and Yellowface have been remanded and will be next appearing in Rocky Mountain House Provincial Court on April 7, 2021.
“This is a nightmarish situation for everyone involved, including the police, but most importantly for the members of the community” said S/Sgt. Carl Dinsdale of the Rocky Mountain House Detachment. “I’m thankful that there was no loss of life during this event, and grateful for the quick response by members from Rocky Mountain House and surrounding Detachments, as well as local EMS, RCMP Air Services, Police Dog Services and the Emergency Response Team. It was the timely response by all these members, units and partner emergency services that was the key to the quick apprehension of these two suspects without further injury or loss of life.”
As these matters are now before the courts, no further information will be provided.
From LifeSiteNews
Taylor ‘Teej’ Johannesson was fired by H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake because he spoke out against gender confusion, but the community rallied to support him.
A Central Alberta high school football coach who was fired for sharing his views opposing transgender ideology on social media has been vindicated by members of his community, who voted him in to be a town councilors.
As reported by LifeSiteNews earlier this year, coach Taylor ‘Teej’ Johannesson was fired by H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, by school principal Alex Lambert because he spoke out against gender-confused youth who “take their hatred of Christians” to another level by committing violent acts against them.
Many in his community, which is located in a traditionally conservative area of Alberta, rallied to support Johannesson and even had a GiveSendGo campaign for him at one point.
Saying of his win, as noted in a Western Standard report, Johannesson described it as being vindicated, noting how his wife told him, “You’re vindicated — the good wins now. God closed one door and opened a bigger one.”
Last month, Alberta had municipal elections province-wide, and Johannesson ran for a seat on the Sylvan Lake town council. After the results were tallied, he won a seat on the council, noting how he ran for office to fight against the creep of the woke agenda on society.
Johannesson said that he ran for the same council four years ago “purely on an anti-vaccine platform,” saying he was “pissed off at the mandates.”
He said he decided to run for town council as a Christian conservative so he could share his pro-family beliefs with people in the town, so “everyone knows who I am and what my beliefs, morals, and values are, so that way, if I get elected, I could just keep being that way.”
He noted how he received a lot of “hate and slander” from many people, including many in the school, because of his beliefs. However, their plan against him backfired.
“That school tried to bury me, and instead they lifted me,” he said, adding that going from fired football coach to town councillor in “two months was pretty good.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Johannesson earlier this year sent a legal demand to his former school board demanding he get his job back.
The legal demand letter, which was sent to school officials last week, reads, “Given that Mr. Johannesson’s expression in the TikTok Video was not connected to his volunteer work, the principal and the division have no authority to regulate his speech and punish him by the Termination decision, which is ultra vires (“beyond the powers.)”
Teej has been in trouble before with the school administration. About three years ago, he was called in to see school officials for posting on Twitter a biological fact that “Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.”
Alberta
Pierre Poilievre will run to represent Camrose, Stettler, Hanna, and Drumheller in Central Alberta by-election
From LifeSiteNews
Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek announced Friday he would be willing to give up his seat as an MP so Pierre Poilievre, who lost his seat Monday, could attempt to re-join Parliament.
Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek announced Friday he would be willing to give up his seat in a riding that saw the Conservatives easily defeat the Liberals by 46,020 votes in this past Monday’s election. Poilievre had lost his seat to his Liberal rival, a seat which he held for decades, which many saw as putting his role as leader of the party in jeopardy.
Kurek has represented the riding since 2019 and said about his decision, “It has been a tremendous honor to serve the good people of Battle River—Crowfoot.”
“After much discussion with my wife Danielle, I have decided to step aside for this Parliamentary session to allow our Conservative Party Leader to run here in a by-election,” he added.
Newly elected Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney used his first post-election press conference to say his government will unleash a “new economy” that will further “deepen” the nation’s ties to the world.
He also promised that he would “trigger” a by-election at once, saying there would be “no games” trying to prohibit Poilievre to run and win a seat in a safe Conservative riding.
Poilievre, in a statement posted to X Friday, said that it was with “humility and appreciation that I have accepted Damien Kurek’s offer to resign his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot so that I can work to earn the support of citizens there to serve them in Parliament.”
“Damien’s selfless act to step aside temporarily as a Member of Parliament shows his commitment to change and restoring Canada’s promise,” he noted.
“I will work to earn the trust of the good people of Battle River-Crowfoot and I will continue to hold the Liberal minority government to account until the next federal election, when we will bring real change to all Canadians.”
Carney said a new cabinet will be sworn in on May 12.
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