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Red Deer Emergency Services, Alberta celebrate paramedics

‘We just can’t say enough good things about how they show up to work every day,’ says Red Deer Emergency Services deputy chief Tyler Pelke. (Advocate file photo)
National Paramedic Services Week started Sunday
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            Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, left, says he will stay in the top job to maintain continuity and stability in government until a new United Conservative party leader is chosen, in Calgary, Alta., Friday, May 20, 2022. Kenney says he will not be running in the race to pick a new leader of his United Conservative party. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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            Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is expected address the province's COVID situation today (Dec. 21). (File photo from The Canadian Press)

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                                Michelle Asgarali, shown in a handout photo, is the producer of the new show “Breaking Character," which follows a cast of disabled actors trying to make it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/-HO-AMI **MANDATORY CREDIT**

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                                Jason Aldean, left, and Bryan Adams perform “Heaven” at the CMT Music Awards on Monday, April 11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Adams is hitting the road in Canada with a cross-country tour set for later this summer. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

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                                          Bucars RV Centre general manager Jeff Redmond with new recreational vehicles on his lot in Balzac, Alta. on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. With gasoline prices hitting all-time highs, Redmond says he’s planning to stay closer to home when RV camping this summer. But he adds recreational vehicles are still one of the most affordable ways to travel as a couple or with a family once other costs are factored in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol

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                                          A technician stands at the entrance to a Huawei 5G data server centre at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province on Sept. 26, 2021. Senior government officials say the Liberals have decided to ban Chinese the vendor Huawei Technologies from Canada’s long-awaited blueprint for next-generation mobile networks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan

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                                                    This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Portuguese health authorities confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

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                                                    This photo shows palm leaf bowls from VerTerra. More brides and grooms are asking for more sustainable options in all aspects of their weddings. (Ken Goodman via AP)

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                                                                            Premier-Designate Jason Kenney addresses the media the day his after his election victory in Edmonton on Wednesday April 17, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

                                                                            BENNETT: Jason Kenney led Alberta through bulldog willpower and work ethic

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