Overview of recent Red Deer RCMP arrests include stolen vehicles

Red Deer, Alberta – Recent arrests by Red Deer RCMP include locating and arresting a number of suspects in stolen vehicles, many of whom attempted to flee police before being arrested. A number of those arrests occurred as RCMP monitored areas and prolific property offenders identified through the Red Deer RCMP’s Pinpoint policing strategies. Other arrests were thanks to citizens reporting suspicious activity.

October 11

Shortly before 5:30 am on October 11, RCMP located a suspect walking in the Johnstone neighbourhood who fled when he saw police. Police located him shortly afterward and confirmed that he was wanted on 10 outstanding warrants out of Red Deer and Edmonton. A new court date has not yet been set for 30 year old Jeremy Sanderson-Hayward regarding those outstanding warrants.

October 10

At 5:30 pm on October 10, RCMP worked with Lacombe Police Service in locating two men driving a stolen SUV in south Red Deer. When the vehicle refused to stop for RCMP, more police officers laid a tire deflation device, which punctured several tires. The SUV continued south onto Spruce Drive, where the occupants abandoned it and attempted to flee police on foot. Both suspects were arrested in the Mountview neighbourhood. One suspect assaulted a police officer in his attempt to escape custody, used stolen identification in an attempt to conceal his identity from police, and was found to be in possession of a small amount of what appeared to be crystal meth. The police officer was not injured during the arrest. The SUV had been reported stolen out of Red Deer on October 9.

A 32 year old man and a 39 year old man face charges; their names cannot be released at this time as those charges have not yet been sworn before the courts.

October 9

Shortly before 5:30 pm on October 9, RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle driving in an industrial area in north Red Deer. Police located the truck and confirmed that it was stolen; the blue Ford F250 truck refused to stop for police, who did not pursue due to public safety concerns. The truck was observed speeding, driving over a median and through a ditch as it fled police. RCMP located the truck abandoned in the GH Dawe Centre parking lot and arrested the suspect after he fled on foot and attempted to hide in an alley at Hamilton Drive. At the time of his arrest, the suspect was found to be in possession of a small amount of what is believed to be ecstasy. The truck had been reported stolen out of Airdrie on October 8.

34 year old Shane William Brown was wanted on three outstanding warrants at the time of his arrest. In addition to those charges, he now faces the following charges:

· CDSA 4(1) – Possession of Schedule I substance (MDMA/ Ecstasy)

· Criminal Code 249(1)(a) – Dangerous operation of motor vehicle

· Criminal Code 249.1(1) – Operate motor vehicle while being pursued by police

· Criminal Code 355(a) – Possession of stolen property over $5,000

· Criminal Code 733.1(1) – Fail to comply with probation order X 3

· TSA 94(2) – Drive motor vehicle while license suspended

· TSA 52(1)(a) – Operate motor vehicle without registration

· TSA 54(1)(a) – Drive uninsured motor vehicle

Brown is scheduled to appear in court in Red Deer on October 11 at 9:30 am.

October 9

At approximately 5 pm on October 9, RCMP located a stolen truck as it drove in north Red Deer. The white Ford truck refused to stop for police, who did not pursue it for public safety reasons but moved to intercept it as it drove through the Normandeau neighbourhood and back to Gaetz Avenue, where its occupants abandoned the truck in a parking lot and attempted to flee police on foot. The female driver and the male passenger were arrested without incident. He was wanted on several outstanding warrants out of neighbouring areas, and she was found to be in possession of break-in instruments and stolen identification.

31 year old Lacey Ann Crabbe faces the following charges:

· Criminal Code 355(a) – Possession of stolen property over $5,000 X 2

· Criminal Code 249(1)(a) – Dangerous operation of motor vehicle

· Criminal Code 249.1(1) – Operate motor vehicle while being pursued by police

· Criminal Code 88(1) – Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose

· Criminal Code 351(b) – Possession of break-in instruments

· Criminal Code 145(3) – Fail to comply with conditions X 3

· Criminal Code 733.1(1) – Fail to comply with probation X 3

Crabbe is scheduled to appear in court in Red Deer on October 11 at 9:30 am.

39 year old Johnathon Patrick Durocher faces the following charges:

· Criminal Code 355(a) – Possession of stolen property over $5,000

· Criminal Code 145(3) – Fail to comply with conditions X 2

· Criminal Code 145(5.1) – Fail to comply with conditions of an undertaking

Durocher is scheduled to appear in court in Red Deer on October 12 at 9:30 am.

October 7

Shortly after 1:30 pm on October 7, RCMP responded to a report of a disturbance at a residence in the Riverside Meadows neighbourhood. On arrival, they located a male suspect in possession of a machete and arrested him after a brief foot chase. RCMP determined that the victim and the suspect were known to each other and that there was no danger to the public during this incident.

21 year old Solomon Courtoreille faces the following charges:

· Criminal Code 88(1) – Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose

· Criminal Code 129(a) – Resist/ obstruct peace officer

· Criminal Code 145(3) – Fail to comply with conditions X 2

Courtoreille made his first court appearance in Red Deer on October 10; he is scheduled to appear again on October 12 at 9:30 am.

October 6

Shortly before 9:30 pm on October 6, RCMP were called to a break and enter in progress as a suspect attempted to break down the door of an apartment unit at a building in the West Park neighbourhood. On arrival, RCMP determined that the suspect had smashed the glass at the building entry door to gain access, and then attempted to break into an apartment while its residents were inside. The suspect and the victims were not known to each other, and the suspect was taken into custody at the scene.

35 year old Jordan Charles Allen faces the following charges:

· Criminal Code 348(1)(a) – Break and enter

· Criminal Code 145(3) – Fail to comply with conditions

· Criminal Code 733.1(1) – Breach of probation

Allen made his first court appearance in Red Deer on October 10; he is scheduled to appear again on October 17 at 9:30 am.

October 5

Shortly before 10:30 am on October 5, RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot in the Highland Green neighbourhood. On arrival, RCMP located a suspect who was wanted on outstanding warrants, and seized a club and hydromorphone during his arrest.

A 32 year old man faces new charges in addition to his outstanding warrants; his name cannot be released at this time as those charges have not yet been sworn before the courts.

September 29

Shortly before 1:30 pm, Red Deer RCMP Traffic unit was doing a speed campaign in the area of 59 Avenue and 63 Street when a grey Chevrolet truck refused to stop and fled. RCMP determined the vehicle was stolen and tracked it to C & E Trail just north of Highway 11A, where the occupants abandoned it and attempted to flee police on foot. Police Dog Services attended and tracked the suspects to a bushed area where they were attempting to hide. The truck had been reported stolen out of Red Deer on September 4.

A 22 year old man and a 20 year old woman each face charges; their names cannot be released at this time as those charges have not yet been sworn before the courts.

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Published on August 20, 2025

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Misinformation is not exclusive to alternative online news organizations

The purpose of news ought to be to ensure that Canadians have a shared set of facts around which they can form their opinions and organize their lives.

In a previous world, whether they succeeded or failed at that was really no one’s business, at least provided the publisher wasn’t knowingly spreading false information intended to do harm. That is against the law, as outlined in Section 372 of the Criminal Code, which states:

“Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm a person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes such information to be conveyed by letter or any means of telecommunication.”

Do that, and you can be imprisoned for up to two years.

But if a publisher was simply offering poorly researched, unbalanced journalism, and wave after wave of unchallenged opinion pieces with the ability to pervert the flow of information and leave the public with false or distorted impressions of the world, he or she was free to do so. Freedom of the press and all that.

The broadcasting world has always been different. Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), content produced there must, according to the Broadcasting Act, be of “high standard”—something that the CRTC ensures through its proxy content regulator, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).

Its most recent decision, for instance, condemned Sportsnet Ontario for failing to “provide a warning before showing scenes of extraordinary violence” when it broadcast highlights of UFC mixed martial arts competitions during morning weekend hours when children could watch. If you don’t understand how a warning would have prevented whatever trauma the highlights may have caused or how that might apply to the internet, take comfort in the fact that you aren’t alone.

The CRTC now has authority over all video and audio content posted digitally through the Online Streaming Act, and while it has not yet applied CRTC-approved CBSC standards to it, it’s probably only a matter of time before it does.

The same will—in my view—eventually take place regarding text news content. Since it has become a matter of public interest through subsidies, it’s inevitable that “high standard” expectations will be attached to eligibility. In other words, what once was nobody’s business is now everybody’s business. Freedom of the, er, press and all that.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

Which raises the point: is the Canadian public well informed by the news industry, and who exactly will be the judge of that now that market forces have been, if not eliminated, at least emasculated?

For instance, as former Opposition leader Preston Manning recently wondered on Substack, how can it be that “62 per cent of Ontarians,” according to a Pollara poll, believe Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to be a separatist?

“The truth is that Premier Smith—whom I’ve known personally for a long time—is not a separatist and has made that clear on numerous occasions to the public, the media, and anyone who asks her,” he wrote.

I, too, have been acquainted for many years with the woman Globe and Mailcolumnist Andrew Coyne likes to call “Premier Loon” and have the same view as Manning, whom I have also known for many years: Smith is not a separatist.

Manning’s theory is that there are three reasons for Ontarians’ disordered view—the first two being ignorance and indifference.

The third and greatest, he wrote, is “misinformation—not so much misinformation transmitted via social media, because it is especially older Ontarians who believe the lie about Smith—but misinformation fed into the minds of Ontarians via the traditional media” which includes CBC, CTV, Global, and “the Toronto-based, legacy print media.”

No doubt, some members of those organizations would protest and claim the former Reform Party leader is the cause of all the trouble.

Such is today’s Canada, where the flying time between Calgary and Toronto is roughly the same as between London and Moscow, and the sense of east-west cultural dislocation is at times similar. As Rudyard Kipling determined, the twain shall never meet “till earth and sky stand presently at God’s great judgment seat.”

This doesn’t mean easterners and westerners can’t get along. Heavens no. But what it does illustrate is that maybe having editorial coverage decisions universally made in Hogtown about Cowtown (the author’s outdated terminology), Halifax, St John’s, Yellowknife, or Prince Rupert isn’t helping national unity. It is ridiculous, when you think about it, that anyone believes a vast nation’s residents could have compatible views when key decisions are limited to those perched six degrees south of the 49th parallel within earshot of Buffalo.

But CTV won’t change. Global can’t. The Globe is a Toronto newspaper, and most Postmedia products have become stripped-down satellites condemned to eternally orbit 365 Bloor Street East.

The CRTC is preoccupied with finding novel ways to subsidize broadcasters to maintain a status quo involving breakfast shows. So we can’t expect any changes there, nor can we from the major publishers.

Which leaves the job to the CBC, whose job it has always been to make sure the twain could meet. That makes it fair to assume Manning will be writing for many years to come about Toronto’s mainstream media and misinformation about the West.

(Peter Menzies is a commentator and consultant on media, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow, a past publisher of the Calgary Herald, a former vice chair of the CRTC and a National Newspaper Award winner.)

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Elon Musk’s X tops Canadian news apps, outperforming CBC, CTV

Published on August 12, 2025

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

While X sits at number one, CBC News, Canada’s crown news agency, ranks at number 9 in news apps. Similarly, CTV News is ranked at number 10.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, now ranks number one in news apps for Canadians, outranking mainstream media outlets.

In an August 7 post, Elon Musk, the owner of X, celebrated X placing first among news apps downloaded from the app store in Canada, as Canadians increasingly turn to alternative media sources amid ongoing media censorship and bias.

“This indicates that a very large segment of the Canadian population no longer trusts the mainstream media,” Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.

“They view legacy news outlets like the CBC as nothing more than propaganda factories, paid by the Liberal government to spew forth its narratives,” he continued.

Since X was bought by Musk in 2023, the platform has relaxed its censorship policies, allowing for a more open discussion of controversial topics.

While by no means perfect, the app has become a valuable method of sharing censored information, especially in Canada, where most media outlets receive funding from the Liberal government.

“Generally speaking, free speech reigns on X, and that’s what people want,” Fonseca declared. “They want the ability to hear both sides of an issue, no matter how controversial. The freedom to say what they believe and not be censored.”

“The CBC, CTV, Toronto Star and all the other propaganda machines do not allow both sides of an issue to be aired in a fair or balanced manner,” he continued.

Indeed, while X sits at number one, CBC News, Canada’s crown news agency, ranks at number 9 in news apps. Similarly, CTV News is ranked at number 10.

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 leftist 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.

However, many Canadians are awakening to the lies and half-truths perpetuated by legacy media outlets and are instead turning to alternative media sources.

According to a 2024 global “trust” index, the majority of Canadians believe that legacy media journalists and government officials are not trustworthy and are “lying to them” regularly.

Fonseca stressed the importance of “the rapidly growing independent media orgs (…) like LifeSiteNews, Rebel News, the Western Standard, Juno News and Epoch Times. But even these alternative media rely significantly on X to amplify their content.”

“Undoubtedly, the Carney regime will try to shut down X, or force censorship on the platform through legislation and regulation, so we must fight and pray to ensure our shill globalist Prime Minister doesn’t succeed,” he warned.

“Carney would have us all become slaves to the state, without any voice or real power. Although X isn’t perfect, we need it desperately if we’re to have any hope of Canada staying ‘glorious and free,’” Fonseca declared.