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Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) ranked 17th among the best culinary schools in Canada by University Magazine.  

“We are proud to be acknowledged across the nation for our dynamic culinary programming,” said Garnett Schoettler, Chair of Culinary Programs and Instructor at RDP. “At Red Deer Polytechnic, we offer enhanced education and training opportunities in collaboration with industry partners that help fulfill labour market demand.”  

On Dec. 23, at 3:57 a.m., the Red Deer RCMP advised that police were on Alberts Close conducting an investigation. 

Despite the heavy police presence, there is no ongoing risk to the public.

An update is expected.

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During the holiday season, many Albertans will be out using provincial roads and highways, visiting their friends and families.   

The Alberta RCMP is offering tips to help you, and your loved ones get home safe this year:  

Never drive impaired: Driving under the influence of drugs of alcohol is illegal and dangerous. Always make sure to have a designated driver or arrange for a ride home.  

To increase access to family doctors throughout the province, the Alberta government is putting a new primary care physician compensation model into place.

According to the province, this new model will make Alberta’s family doctors the strongest-paid and most patient-focused in the country.

The Alberta government is updating the province’s approach to addressing homelessness.   

In 2022, the province committed to testing and implementing a new, coordinated approach to handling homelessness through Alberta’s Action Plan on Homelessness. 

A grain farmer from Acme, Alberta has been elected as the new chair of Grain Growers of Canada (GGC).

Tara Sawyer, who is also the Chair of Alberta Grains, is the first woman to take over the role of chair for Grain Growers of Canada.

Joining her are Scott Hepworth, a grain grower from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and a Director of the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission, as First Vice Chair and Sally Parsonage, a grain producer from Baldur, Manitoba and the Secretary of Manitoba Crop Alliance, joins the executive as Second Vice Chair.  

A British Columbia community's "out-of-the-box" plan to ease its family doctor shortage by hiring physicians as city employees is sparking interest from across Canada, says Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi.

The mayor said the community has hired its first family doctor for a city-operated medical clinic, and the Victoria-area city is looking to hire seven more under the first-in-Canada pilot project.

The family doctors will be paid as community employees, receiving full medical benefits, vacation and a pension, he said.

An "overheated" immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview.

The system, he said, needed some discipline to get the country back on track.

A long-time advocate for the engineering technology profession is retiring, leaving a legacy for pioneering change.  

Barry Cavanaugh, CEO of the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta (ASET) has served as the association’s leader and general counsel for 17 years.  

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has recently their list of Canada’s 10 most impactful weather stories of 2024 and Alberta is on their a few time.

The major hailstorm that hit north Calgary and affected many Airdronians was number five, while the Jasper wildfire was number one.