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Ten people were rescued Thursday after a small plane crashed in a remote area of the Northwest Territories and they were stranded overnight.

David Lavallee, a spokesman with 1 Canadian Air Division and Canadian Norad Region Headquarters, said everyone was picked up from the crash site and taken to the nearby Diavik diamond mine. Some were injured.

The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Trenton started the search-and-rescue operation Wednesday, after the Air Tindi Otter aircraft crashed about 16 kilometres southeast of the mine.

A look at news events in June 2023.

01 -  Civil servants in Quebec are now required to speak and write exclusively in French while on the job except in certain cases, such as access to health care and social services in English, or situations where health, public safety or principles of natural justice require the use of languages other than French.

 On Dec. 27, 2023, at 5:08 pm., Didsbury RCMP received a report of a single vehicle rollover collision on Township Road 292 and Range Road 14 in Mountain View County.

Upon arrival, emergency responders located two deceased people who have been identified as a 16-year-old male and a 14-year-old female, both residents of Didsbury. 

The investigation into this incident continues.

Condolences keep pouring in for former long-time Councillor Frank Wong who passed away this week at age 75. Red Deer City Mayor, Ken Johnston released this statement about Councillor Wong.

"On behalf of my council colleagues, it is with much grief that I share more sad news; former City Councillor, Woon Woon Wong also known as Frank Wong, passed away on the morning of December 27, 2023.

When George Stroumboulopoulos thinks back on his TV career, it's his time hosting The NewMusic in the early 2000s that resonates most.

Many Canadians remember how the gregarious host introduced them to bands and musicians on the MuchMusic program, and those years are part of the reason he is now being appointed to the Order of Canada.

"It was this golden era of television that I don't think could ever be created again," he told The Canadian Press in an interview.

The Care for Newcomers annual Learn to Skate is coming up on January 4th from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Bower Ponds. 

This year marks our eleventh year of the ‘Learn to Skate’ program. The program is offered free of charge to immigrants and refugees and all equipment is provided for them. It is always a fun afternoon of learning basic skating skills, enjoying the outdoor atmosphere at Bower Ponds, and meeting new people.  

‘Learn to Skate’ event plan  

A look at news events in May 2023:

1 – Legendary Canadian folk singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died of natural causes at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital at the age of 84. 

A former long-serving Red Deer City Councillor, Frank Wong, has passed away at age 75.

Wong served on Red Deer Council during five consecutive terms from  2004-2021.

He was born in China in 1948 with the name Woon Woon Wong and immigrated to Canada at age 9.

After attending SAIT he moved to Red Deer to work for the Regional Planning Commission in 1971. 

As a Planning Assistant, he spent more then 30 years sketching subdivision lines, developing land-use bylaws and helping to name Red Deer streets.

A look at events in April 2023:

01 - The family of Vancouver radio personality Red Robinson says he  died after a brief illness. Robinson began his radio career in 1954 at Vancouver's CJOR, and his website credits him as the first DJ in Canada to play rock 'n' roll music on a regular basis. He was 86.

03 - Dennis King led the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservatives to a second majority government last night, securing 22 of the island's 27 legislative seats and 56 per cent of the popular vote. 

Alberta RCMP are sending out a warning about the number of Albertans dying from fentanyl overdoses.

From January to November 2023, Alberta RCMP have responded to over 100 percent more drug overdoses than in all of 2022 including frequent suspected fentanyl overdoses with a high fatality rate. Alberta RCMP also had a 24 percent increase in the number of naloxone deployments in response to overdoses in 2023. Furthermore, from January to August 2023, there were 1262 opioid related deaths in Alberta, which is up by 255 compared to the same time period in 2022.