Category: News

  • Okotoks RCMP Seeks Assistance in Locating Missing Person – Located!

    Okotoks RCMP Seeks Assistance in Locating Missing Person – Located!

    Okotoks RCMP seeks assistance in locating Missing Person – LOCATED Okotoks, Alta. – Okotoks RCMP would like to advise that Taylor Thompson has been located.  She is safe and unharmed. RCMP would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Okotoks, Alta. – Okotoks RCMP are seeking the public assistance in locating a 14-year-old…

  • Chestermere RCMP – Ongoing Investigation *Update*

    Chestermere RCMP – Ongoing Investigation *Update*

    Chestermere, Alberta – This morning at approximately 10:30 a.m., RCMP responded to an incident that occurred at a residence in the area of West Lakeview Drive and West Creek Mews. Investigation revealed that an altercation took place inside the residence where a gun shot was fired. One adult male was taken to hospital with serious injuries…

  • Okotoks RCMP Executed Search Warrant Seizing Weapons and Drugs

    Okotoks RCMP Executed Search Warrant Seizing Weapons and Drugs

    Okotoks, Alta. – On Nov. 23, 2018 at approximately 5:00 am., Okotoks RCMP, Okotoks RCMP General Investigation Section, Crime Reduction Unit, Okotoks Municipal Enforcement executed a Search Warrant with the assistance of RCMP Emergency Response Team on a residence on Cimarron Meadows Crescent, Okotoks. Two adult males and one adult female were arrested on scene and…

  • MP John Barlow’s Statement on Liberal Fall Economic Statement

    MP John Barlow’s Statement on Liberal Fall Economic Statement

    OTTAWA, ON – This week, the Liberal’s tabled their Fall Economic Statement. The Finance Minister confirmed the Liberals are borrowing $18 billion this year, and almost $20 billion next year, to pay for their out-of-control spending and they have no plan to balance the budget. Ever. The take away from this Liberal mini-budget is Trudeau’s…

  • Proposed Changes Uphold Charter-protected Rights

    Proposed Changes Uphold Charter-protected Rights

    Proposed changes to the Public Service Employee Relations Act would repeal exemptions and help make sure the act protects the constitutional rights of public sector workers. The Government of Alberta is moving forward with proposed amendments to the act which would: Remove exemptions prohibiting five classifications of employees from participating in collective bargaining. The proposed changes bring…

  • High River RCMP Seek Public Assistance

    High River RCMP Seek Public Assistance

    High River, Alberta –  High River RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance after a residential break and enter at an apartment complex at 4 Ave SE and 1 St SE in High River. On Friday November 23rd, 2018 just before 10:00 P.M.,  a resident returned home to a break and enter in progress.  An unknown number of suspects were still…

  • NDP Environment Minister Must Answer on Anti-pipeline Activities

    NDP Environment Minister Must Answer on Anti-pipeline Activities

    EDMONTON, AB: Newly discovered evidence shows that Shannon Phillips, the current Minister of the Environment, personally appeared at a National Energy Board (NEB) hearing on June 17, 2013 to argue against the approval of Northern Gateway (pg. 93, line 697). A day earlier, social media posts point to now-Minister Phillips personally attending an anti-Northern Gateway…

  • Premier Announces Major Boost to Energy Upgrading

    Premier Announces Major Boost to Energy Upgrading

    Alberta is taking action on diversification and combating low energy prices by supercharging oil and gas upgrading within the province. Premier Rachel Notley announced the first set of plans as part of a made-in-Alberta strategy to keep more value from our resources. The province will double support for petrochemical upgrading, with total investment now reaching…

  • Alberta RCMP Offers Counter-Terrorism Information Officer Workshop in Red Deer

    Alberta RCMP Offers Counter-Terrorism Information Officer Workshop in Red Deer

    Red Deer, Alta. – From November 13-15, the RCMP provided specialized training to inform and educate first responders (i.e. police, paramedics, firefighters) on key indicators of criminal or terrorist activity that might otherwise go unnoticed and unreported. The three-day Counter Terrorism Information Officers (CTIO) workshop was the latest in a series of workshops designed to…

  • Alberta RCMP Focused on Occupant Restraint Safety on Remembrance Day Long Weekend

    Alberta RCMP Focused on Occupant Restraint Safety on Remembrance Day Long Weekend

    Edmonton – Over the Remembrance Day 2018 long weekend (November 9-12), Alberta Sheriffs and RCMP members issued 70 occupant restraint tickets compared to 119 tickets over Remembrance Day 2017 long weekend (November 10-13). This November, Alberta RCMP and Alberta Traffic Sheriffs continue to focus their #TrafficSafety messages on occupant restraints. “We remind Albertans to always wear a seatbelt and…

  • Executed Warrants and Arrests in Claresholm AB

    Executed Warrants and Arrests in Claresholm AB

    On November 21st, 2018, Claresholm RCMP members with the assistance of the RCMP Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Team, (CRT) in and effort to reduce prolific offenders and rural crimes, attended a number of residences in the town of Claresholm in and effort to execute outstanding arrest warrants . Two adult males and a female young offender all from the…

  • Fighting to Get Full Value for Alberta Oil

    Fighting to Get Full Value for Alberta Oil

    Premier Rachel Notley is appointing a team to work with key energy leaders on bold solutions for closing the historically high oil price gap that is robbing the Canadian economy of more than $80 million a day. The price of our resources continues to be driven down thanks to Canada’s decades-long failure to build new…

  • High River RCMP Seek Assistance Identifying Canada Post Office Theft Suspect(s) in Blackie, AB

    High River RCMP Seek Assistance Identifying Canada Post Office Theft Suspect(s) in Blackie, AB

    Sometime between 9:00 PM Saturday, November 17th, 2018 and 02:30 AM Sunday, November 18th 2018 the Canada Post Office in Blackie was entered and approximately twenty three mail boxes were broken into with their mail contents stolen. Police are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the person or persons responsible. Anyone with information regarding this theft of mail…

  • Calgary Officers Acted Reasonably in Fatal Shooting

    Calgary Officers Acted Reasonably in Fatal Shooting

    On Nov. 22, 2016, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a 49-year-old man, who was shot during an interaction with members of the Calgary Police Service (CPS) the same day. Shortly after 3 p.m., a blue Dodge Ram matching the description of a truck…

  • Okotoks RCMP Investigate a Collision Involving Two Police Vehicles

    Okotoks RCMP Investigate a Collision Involving Two Police Vehicles

    Okotoks, Alberta – On Nov. 18, 2018 at approximately 10:35 p.m., Okotoks RCMP responded to a possible theft of a truck on Lineham Avenue in Okotoks. Police arrived in the area and located a white pick up bearing a Ontario licence plate. Queries on the plate showed it to be stolen. The truck reversed into a…