Category: News

  • RCMP Cochrane – Fatal Collision Highway 22

    RCMP Cochrane – Fatal Collision Highway 22

    Cochrane RCMP investigate fatal collision Cochrane, Alberta – Police are investigating a head on collision involving two vehicles on Highway 22 in Cochrane, Alta but there is no confirmed fatality. Three people have been transported to hospital, one with life threatening injuries. All contributing factors to this collision are being investigated. An update will be provided…

  • RCMP Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit Arrest Two Males After Theft from Oil Field Sites

    RCMP Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit Arrest Two Males After Theft from Oil Field Sites

    High River, Alta. – On Jan. 18, 2019, RCMP Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit, with help from Calgary Police Services, investigated three break and enters to oil field sites in the High River area. Items stolen from the oil sites included copper wire, batteries, and industrial pumps. The suspects caused extensive property damage during the…

  • Calgary Officers Acted Reasonably in Use of Force Incident

    Calgary Officers Acted Reasonably in Use of Force Incident

    On Jan. 1, 2017, pursuant to section 46.1 of the Police Act, ASIRT was directed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the arrest of 31-year-old man and injuries he sustained during a single-vehicle collision. ASIRT interviewed all relevant police and civilian witnesses, with the exception of one who refused to cooperate, and reviewed available ICDV (police in-car…

  • Did Premier Notley Break Election Donation Laws?

    Did Premier Notley Break Election Donation Laws?

    EDMONTON, AB (January 22, 2019): Today, Fort McMurray-Conklin MLA Laila Goodridge issued the following statement: “It is well-known that Premier Notley lived in Victoria and worked for the BC NDP in the 1990s. Given the NDP’s newfound interest in election financing laws, the Premier should clarify whether she knowingly illegally donated to the Alberta NDP…

  • Update: RCMP Recover Historical Coal Miner’s Lamp

    Update: RCMP Recover Historical Coal Miner’s Lamp

    Banff, Alberta – The RCMP have recovered a coal miner’s lamp taken from a historical site within Banff National Park. The lamp, which was removed from the Lower Bankhead site on July 28, 2018, was on loan to Parks Canada and in use as a display item. Extensive media coverage of this event contributed to its…

  • RCMP Seeking Information on Activities of Stolen Fountain Tire Truck

    RCMP Seeking Information on Activities of Stolen Fountain Tire Truck

    Blackfalds, Alta. – On January 15, 2019 the Fountain Tire in Drumheller was broken into, and a truck was stolen.  On January 16, 2019 the truck was associated to a break and enter in Bashaw and an incident of shots fired in Delburne.  Today, the Blackfalds RCMP recovered that truck following a collision and car-jacking, and are…

  • Minister of the Crown Disgraces Government…Again

    Minister of the Crown Disgraces Government…Again

    January 18, 2019 (Edmonton, AB): Notley NDP Environment Minister Shannon Phillips has once again disgraced the Government. Yesterday at the Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs, Minister Phillips engaged in an over-the-top diatribe that is unbecoming of a Minister of the Crown. In attacking the UCP, the Minister accused our candidates of being “racists” and our…

  • RCMP Okotoks – Man Charged with Counterfeit Money

    RCMP Okotoks – Man Charged with Counterfeit Money

    Okotoks, AB- Between January 1st and January 18th, 2019, RCMP conducted an investigation into American counterfeit money being used at Aldersyde Petro Canada in Foothills County. Okotoks RCMP were able to identify and lay charges. Daniel Derek Morgan, 31 years old has been arrested and charged with eight counts for possession of counterfeit money, four counts for utter counterfeit money,…

  • Strathmore RCMP Recover Stolen Skis and Snowboards

    Strathmore RCMP Recover Stolen Skis and Snowboards

    On January 20, 2019, Strathmore RCMP entered into an investigation relating to potential stolen skis being posted for sale on Kijiji. Through investigation, on January 21, 2019, Strathmore RCMP were able to identify and arrest two youths who have been charged in relation to being in possession of the stolen skis. Strathmore RCMP were able to recover 10…

  • RCMP High River – Damage to Rural Property and Stolen Property

    RCMP High River – Damage to Rural Property and Stolen Property

    Damage to Rural Residential Gate High River, Alberta –  High River RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance after an unknown vehicle crashed through a rural residential gate west of High River. On Sunday January 20th, 2019, at approx. 09:30 P.M. and unidentified vehicle crashed through the front gate to a rural property on 16 St W just south of…

  • Another Broken NDP Promise: Carbon Tax Rebate Clawbacks Continue

    Another Broken NDP Promise: Carbon Tax Rebate Clawbacks Continue

    EDMONTON, AB – The NDP government needs to explain why they failed to follow through on their promise to stop clawing back carbon tax rebates from the families of deceased Albertans. “Seeking a clawback of carbon tax rebates from families already grieving the loss of a loved one is both insensitive and represents a massive lack…

  • Work on Highway 60 Improvements to Begin

    Work on Highway 60 Improvements to Begin

    Twinning and a new overpass will ease congestion and improve safety for thousands of drivers on Highway 60. The Government is Alberta is twinning the highway between highways 16 and 16A, constructing an overpass over the CN rail tracks, and realigning the interchange over highway 16A to accommodate twinning. Design work and relocation of utilities…

  • Tackle Systemic Inequality in Post-Secondary Education, Says Green Party

    Tackle Systemic Inequality in Post-Secondary Education, Says Green Party

    CALGARY – Post-secondary education in Alberta needs a dramatic overhaul, according to the Green Party of Alberta. Ever-increasing tuition rates are further reducing accessibility to post-secondary education.  Both the federal and provincial governments exacerbate the suffering of low-income students and their families with rising interest rates, creating student loan bondage. “With the start of the…

  • Nanton RCMP Arrest Two Involved in Copper Wire Thefts

    Nanton RCMP Arrest Two Involved in Copper Wire Thefts

    Nanton, Alta. –  Following a tip from an observant citizen, RCMP have laid charges and seized stolen copper wire. On January 15, Nanton RCMP were alerted to a suspicious vehicle west of Nanton. Nanton members with the assistance of High River Traffic Services located the vehicle and arrested two males. RCMP seized a large quantity of copper wire stolen from industrial sites. Bradley…

  • Oversize Load Travelling on Highways 14 and 21

    Oversize Load Travelling on Highways 14 and 21

    Another wide load will travel from Edmonton to the Fort Saskatchewan area starting this weekend and it could disrupt traffic. The 682-tonne, 63-metre-long piece of petrochemical development equipment, called a de-ethanizer stripper, will be moved from Edmonton to the Industrial Heartland over four days, Jan. 19-22. The stripper separates ethane from liquid natural gas to be…