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Ottawa and Alberta have reached a new joint $70-million funding agreement to aid the province's response to homelessness.

Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says the funding is expected to boost shelter capacity, build transitional housing, and support the government's navigation centres in Edmonton and Calgary.

Those navigation centres serve as a hub where those experiencing homelessness can go to be referred to available supports and services.

Nixon says the funding will be split between Alberta's two major cities as well as Red Deer and Lethbridge.

Five-point nights from Ollie Josephson and Kalan Lind led the Red Deer Rebels to a comeback victory Tuesday night in Moose Jaw to complete the season sweep of the Warriors.

Josephson netted his first career hat trick as the Rebels fought back from a 4-1 first period deficit.

Riley Thorpe opened the scoring for Moose Jaw at 5:11 of the first, before Keaton Dowhaniuk responded for Red Deer just over a minute later.

The Warriors would go on to score three straight with goals by Ethan Hughes, Thorpe, and Krzysztof Macias.

With the spring season nearly underway in the southeast, there's a bit of green likely to pop up soon, though some of that will present a big issue for farms. Absinthe Wormwood is one of the big problems prairie farmers will be facing with the upcoming season, both for livestock and haying operations.

Range Management Extension Specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Luke Jorgenson, explains some of the characteristics of the weed.

Heavy fog is once again blanketing areas of Central Alberta Wednesday morning.

Visibility on the highways is greatly reduced in some areas.

The fog is expected to dissipate this morning.

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It will be mainly cloudy today with a chance of flurries late this morning and this afternoon. The high today is minus 1.

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A new poll suggests Canadians' sense of national pride has surged in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats against the country's sovereignty.

The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies, says that the number of people saying they're proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is hoping to be sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister by the end of the week but there are some logistical hurdles like security clearances for senior members of his transition team that must happen first.

Carney won a landslide victory to take the helm of the Liberals from Justin Trudeau on Sunday night but he isn't yet the prime minister.

The Innisfail RCMP and the Fugitive Apprehension Sheriffs Support Team (FASST) conducted a three-day operation to locate and arrest offenders on warrants in Innisfail and Red Deer County.  

From March 4 to March 6, 16 individuals were arrested, and 22 arrest warrants were executed.  

The arrest warrants ranged from provincial violations to Criminal Code warrants.   

The Red Deer RCMP responded to a report of a deceased person in an apartment on 30 Street on March 10 at 7:59 p.m.  

Upon arrival, a deceased 21-year-old female was located.   

The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit has taken carriage of the investigation.  

The deceased was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the death has been deemed as a homicide.  

The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit of the Alberta Sheriffs have shut down a drug house in Innisfail.  

Since May 2023, SCAN has received four complaints related to drug and criminal activity occurring at the property.  

Complaints included heavy foot and vehicle traffic, people living in a camper parked on the property, and frequent police activity.  

Update:

Water service has been restored to affected properties in the North end of Ponoka, along 58 Avenue, between Highway 2A and 52 Street.   

The Town of Ponoka is now asking residents of the affected area to run a tub full of water to remove any cloudiness from the water.

The town has confirmed the water is safe to drink.