Category: News

  • Prentice List of Broken Promises Grows: Barnes

      EDMONTON, AB – Premier Jim Prentice is adding to his legacy of broken promises and mistrust by reneging on a commitment to build new schools, Wildrose Education Critic Drew Barnes said. Last October, when he was campaigning for his seat in the legislature, Prentice promised to build 55 new schools and modernize 20 by…

  • RCMP Red Deer – Search for Suspect in Home Invasion

      RCMP are looking for public assistance to identify a man who took a taxi to rob his victim on Saturday night. Shortly after 10 pm on January 31, the suspect arrived at a mobile home in Mustang Acres and knocked on the victim’s door. When the door was opened, the suspect assaulted the resident…

  • Calgary RCMP – Serious Crimes Branch Identify and charge suspect in serial robberies

    The suspect in a series of robberies across three Provinces, has been identified as 26 year old, Shaun Christopher CORNISH, formerly of Langley, BC. On January 30, 2015 Cornish was arrested at a hotel in Grande Prairie, Alberta with the assistance of the Emergency Response Team. Cornish has been charged with the three robberies committed…

  • RCMP Bashaw – Plane Crash

      On February 1st, 2015 at 11:30 am Bashaw RCMP responded to a aircraft collision that occurred about 10 km Northwest of Bashaw, AB. Two single engine home built kit aircrafts were travelling parallel from Carstairs, AB to Red Deer Lake northwest of Bashaw, AB, when the two aircrafts collided mid air. One of the…

  • RCMP – Strathmore B&E and Cochrane Fatality

    RCMP Strathmore – Two (2) adult males charged with multiple Break and Enter & Thefts On January 28, 2015, Strathmore RCMP arrested and charged two adult males, William Corey KELLY and Benjamin GROSS, who were involved in several Break and Enter and vehicle theft investigations the night prior in Strathmore and surrounding rural area. William…

  • Wildrose Announces June Date For Leadershp Race

    Wildrose Announces June Date For Leadershp Race

      CALGARY, AB – The Wildrose party announced the next leader of the Wildrose will be selected by party members from across Alberta on June 6 at the Coast Plaza Hotel in Calgary. “Our party is strong, united and ready to give Albertans a real, principled, grassroots and fiscally conservative option at the ballot box,” Wildrose…

  • First Demolitions to Begin in Wallaceville

    First Demolitions to Begin in Wallaceville

    At the request of the Town of High River, four of the most badly damaged structures in Wallaceville will be the first properties demolished starting Monday, February 2, 2015. Demolition of the remaining Government of Alberta owned properties is expected to begin in summer 2015. “The decision to return Wallaceville to an undeveloped state was…

  • MD of Foothills New Land Use Bylaw in Effect

    MD of Foothills New Land Use Bylaw in Effect

    LUB now in effect as of January 7, 2015. The Land Use Bylaw (LUB) is a regulatory document that governs what may occur on a piece of property depending on that property’s zoning. This is key for all residents living and/or developing in the MD. We have been working through a thorough review of the…

  • Prentice Talk on Eroding Alberta Advantage Will Hurt all Albertans: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB – Premier Jim Prentice’s musings about implementing a regressive sales tax and attacking Alberta’s single-rate tax as being an obstacle to poor and middle income families are inaccurate, will erode the Alberta advantage and hurt all Albertans, Wildrose Finance Critic Drew Barnes said. Alberta’s large Basic Personal Exemption on personal tax rates…

  • Skate Canada mourns the loss of iconic figure skater Toller Cranston

    Skate Canada mourns the loss of iconic figure skater Toller Cranston

      Skate Canada and the entire skating family are saddened to hear of the passing of six-time Canadian champion and Olympic bronze medallist Toller Cranston. Cranston passed away at 65 years of age in San Miguel, Mexico where he had lived for many years. Referred to by some as a modern pioneer of artistic skating…

  • Overdue: Time for Prentice to Deliver on Promise of Rural Health Care Report

    Overdue: Time for Prentice to Deliver on Promise of Rural Health Care Report

      CALGARY, AB – Premier Jim Prentice needs to release the overdue Rural Health Care report immediately, decentralize health care decision making to local boards, and get moving on the significant challenges facing our health care system in communities across Alberta, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. On Sept. 22 Prentice told Albertans that he had appointed a…

  • PCs Continue to Fail on Red Tape Reduction

    PCs Continue to Fail on Red Tape Reduction

      EDMONTON, AB – The PC government must take immediate action to reduce red tape after an embarrassing new report suggests Alberta is one of the worst province’s in Canada to do business in when it comes to overregulation, Wildrose Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour, Critic Rick Strankman said. In its annual red tape report, the…

  • PST Talk Hurts Business, Would Violate Provincial Law: Wildrose

    PST Talk Hurts Business, Would Violate Provincial Law: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB – Premier Jim Prentice openly musing about introducing a sales tax is shaking economic confidence as the province prepares to siphon off billions of dollars from Alberta businesses and consumers while violating provincial law, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. Recent  reports from the Retail Council of Canada have shown raising sales taxes will…

  • PM Announces Anti-Terrorism Measures to Protect Canadians

    Richmond Hill, Ontario, 30 January 2015 – Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that the Government has introduced legislation to protect Canadians from the evolving threat of terrorism and keep our communities safe. The Prime Minister made the announcement at Richmond Hill’s Bayview Hill Community Centre. He was joined by Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney…

  • Unlicensed Calgary Contractor Faces 16 Charges

    Unlicensed Calgary Contractor Faces 16 Charges

    Howard Bursey, owner of Lock-Out Security Inc. in Calgary, has been arrested on warrants issued by Service Alberta’s Consumer Investigations Unit. He faces 16 charges under the Fair Trading Act and the Criminal Code of Canada, including fraud, theft under $5,000 and operating without the required licence to take money from consumers before work is…