Strathmore

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and three of her ministers got an earful on Wednesday night from southern Alberta locals at a rowdy, hours-long town hall to discuss the province's coal policy.

About 500 people, dressed in cowboy hats, belt buckles, and jeans, packed a community hall in Fort Macleod, Alta., for an event marked by heckling, competing applause and placards.

The Canadian citizen believed to be on an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff is a dentist from Mississauga, Ont., her family has confirmed.

The husband of Nirali Sureshkumar Patel said she was on board the London-bound flight that crashed Thursday, killing at least 240 people.

Patel's dental clinic referred The Canadian Press to the husband, who said that he was in the process of booking travel to India for himself and the couple's one-year-old child.

Tomorrow morning (June 13), you can win a $50 gift card to Calgary Co-op.

Morning show host Keesyn Glawson will describe a mystery grocery item, and the first caller to guess it right will win!

Listen to 104.5 More Country at 7:50 a.m. to play.

Calgary-based musician Michela Sheedy played a free concert Strathmore.

The show took place on Tuesday (June 10) at the Hope Covenant Church, with the event hosted by the Hope Bridges Society.

Sheedy played several songs, including Take Me Home, Country Roads and other classic country hits.

Strathmore Seed will be hosting a golf tournament, with all funds raised going towards the Wheatland County Food Bank.

The tournament called Holes for Hunger will take place on July 9 at the Strathmore Golf Club.

Blair Peregrym, Chief Executive Officer for Strathmore Seed, explains why they contribute to the community.

U.S. president Trump has attacked the sustainability movement, but a major pulse player urges investors to stick with the industry

A Canadian food industry executive is telling pulse companies to stick with their sustainability messaging despite attempts by powerful people to undermine the movement.

Murad Al-Katib, president of AGT Food and Ingredients, said U.S. president Donald Trump has been very vocal about his disdain for the green movement.

Strathmore firefighters came to the rescue of several little ducklings.

The Strathmore Fire Department responded to a call about ducklings stuck in storm drain on Sunday (June 1) at 11:00 a.m. 

"A mother duck had walked over a storm drain and the ducklings had fallen in," explained firefighter Alaine Sharpe. "We pulled up the grate covering it, and one of the firefighters went in and handed them up and out of the storm drain." 

The four-man crew was able to reunite nine ducklings with the mother. 

Chestermere's future K-9 Catholic school had a ground blessing and sod turning ceremony.

The event featured snacks and presentations from several representatives, including Chestermere-Strathmore MLA Chantelle de Jonge and Chestermere Mayor Shannon Dean.

Funding for construction of the new school was announced by the province in March of 2024. The school is expecting to hold 420 students once construction is complete.

Protests during the upcoming G7 leaders summit in Kananaskis, Alta., may be starkly different than demonstrations happening this week against immigration crackdowns in the United States.

A University of Toronto research group that has been monitoring the meetings of world leaders since 1998 says its analysis shows Canadian protests are more peaceful and smaller.

But similar to the recent demonstrations in Los Angeles, they're likely to be against the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more surgeries are being performed than before the pandemic — but wait times have still grown longer. 

The report released Thursday looked at wait times for hip and knee replacements, cataract procedures, cancer surgeries, MRIs and CT scans in 2019 and in 2024.