Charities in need of donations
With just nine days until Christmas, a couple of Red Deer organizations are hoping for more donations to cover their Adopt A Family programs.Advocate Staff / December 16, 2015
Year: 2015
RCMP charge woman in death of 14-month-old child on reserve south of Edmonton
RCMP have charged a woman in the death of a child on the Samson Cree reserve south of Edmonton.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Alberta Liquor Store Association says no need to sell beer inside grocery stores
The president of the Alberta Liquor Store Association says its members are not pushing for the province to allow beer to be sold inside of grocery stores.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
UN agency closes the books on probe of allegations that Iran worked on nuclear arms
The UN nuclear agency closed the books Tuesday on its decade-long probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic arms, and Tehran proclaimed that within weeks, it would finish cutbacks on present nuclear programs that the U.S. fears could be turned into making such weapons.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Saudi Arabia forms 34-member Islamic alliance against terrorism
Projecting its ambition for regional leadership, Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it has lined up most of the Arab world, NATO member Turkey and several African and Asian countries behind a vaguely defined "Islamic military alliance" against terrorists.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Email threat closes all Los Angeles schools
The nation's second-largest school district shut down Tuesday after a school board member received an emailed threat that raised fears of another attack like the deadly shooting in nearby San Bernardino.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Prosecutors won’t seek dangerous offender status for Gordon Stuckless: defence
Prosecutors have decided not to seek dangerous offender status for the man at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal, his defence lawyer said Tuesday.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Medically assisted dying consensus reachable, Liberal House leader says
The Trudeau government is aiming to conduct a quick, two-month public consultation on medically assisted dying and have a new law crafted, studied, debated and passed by June.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Duffy says he faced threats from Harper’s team over expenses
In Mike Duffy's telling, his last months inside the Conservative caucus were a devastating series of betrayals and threats, designed to force him into admitting he had botched his Senate expenses.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Final report on residential schools survivors signals time for government to act
Justice Murray Sinclair says the entire country must join a journey to reconciliation between aboriginals and non-aboriginals — and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to join that journey.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Suspicious behaviour at an Innisfail hotel leads to drug seizure, arrest
A complaint about suspicious behaviour at an Innisfail hotel led to local RCMP seizing fentanyl pills, cocaine and a large amount of cash on Monday.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Lyndsey Patricia (nee Fenger) WATT
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Lionard Joseph (Len) JOHNSTON
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Justine WOSTENBERG
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Arthur Clifford TALLMADGE
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Hundreds of seniors registered for Christmas light tour
You don’t have to be a senior to enjoy this year’s Christmas light tour route in Red Deer.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Drug den shuttered in Penhold
Heartland Crescent residents can sleep easy tonight.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Local girls off to World Ringette Championship
Three Central Alberta players are preparing for the biggest challenge of their ringette lives.Advocate Staff / December 15, 2015
Nigerian Shiites claim soldiers have killed hundreds, other reports 20 including leader’s wife
Soldiers killed hundreds of Shiite Muslims this weekend after their group opened fire on the convoy of Nigeria's army chief, the Shia Islamic Movement and military reports said Monday. Other reports put the number of dead at about 20.Advocate Staff / December 14, 2015
Donald Trump backers baffled by condemnation of his Muslim proposal, view criticisms as naive
Tracy Hooker isn't interested in debating the merits of Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily block Muslims from coming into the United States.Advocate Staff / December 14, 2015