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Last night, Sylvan Lake Council approved the 2025 Budget and property tax bylaw. This budget accounted for the 8.5% increase in assessed values.

In the draft budget approved in December, we estimated an assessment increase of 3.0%, and a 3.38% residential and commercial tax increase. In March, the Town received assessment values greater than the estimate.

Assessment Values

The Red Deer District Chamber has released a public statement on the 2025 Federal Election results. In the statement from CEO Scott Robinson, he welcomes new Prime Minister Mark Carney and welcomes new MP Burton Bailey.

Here is the statement from the Red Deer Chamber:

On April 28, 2025, at 2:13 p.m. Sylvan Lake RCMP responded to a multi vehicle collision on Highway 11 at Range Road 35 West of Sylvan Lake. 

Upon arrival, emergency responders located two deceased people in one vehicle, a 29-year-old and a 58-year-old, both female residents of Rocky Mountain House. Two other individuals from a pick up were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

RCMP remained on scene for several hours conducting an investigation.

The investigation continues.

The Liberals have won their fourth mandate this time under the leadership of leader Mark Carney.

When Mark Carney formed government as Canada's 24th Prime Minister on March 14, 2025, he selected 34-year-old Kody Blois from the Kings-Hants riding in Nova Scotia as the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Rural Economic Development.

Blois is heading back to Parliament after winning his riding last night. Expectations are that Carney could keep him in that role, but that will be determined when he announces his new cabinet in the days ahead.

Here are the unofficial results from the Monday, April 28th, Federal Election. These numbers are according to Elections Canada website and may not be complete.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will not have a seat in the next Parliament, after a stunning upset by Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton. 

Poilievre's loss raises a host of questions about his ability to continue with the Conservative party leadership, and the role he will play as the House of Commons reconvenes. 

In his concession speech on election night, Poilievre pledged that Conservatives will "do our constitutional duty of holding government to account and proposing better alternatives." 

As part of the pivot from licensed childcare services to programs for youth, BGC Clearwater (formerly Boys and Girls Club) is selling their long-standing home and club house and will be operating programs out of other locations within the Clearwater community.  

BGC and Youth HQ recently decided that this would be a better use of United Way and FCSS funding support and want to utilize funding responsibly and not take on the continued financial responsibility of the building.  

The Town of Olds is shifting how it manages select green spaces and shrub beds by embracing naturalization—converting low-use or difficult-to-maintain areas into more natural, self-sustaining landscapes.  

This change reflects a shift toward responsible land use, and long-term cost management while continuing to prioritize safe, attractive public spaces.  

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to unite the country and govern for all after Canadians handed the Liberals a fourth consecutive mandate in Monday's federal election.

"Who is ready," he shouted to cheers and applause and people chanting his name in a crowded hockey arena in Ottawa in the wee hours of the morning. "Who is ready? Who is ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who is ready to build Canada strong?"

Prime Minister Mark Carney will lead a minority government after a very close general election race that left the Liberals just three seats shy of a majority. 

Just before 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Elections Canada showed the Liberals projected to win 169 ridings after flipping one riding in Quebec from the Bloc Québécois earlier in the day. 

The Conservatives won 144 seats and will form the official Opposition again. The Bloc Québécois followed with 22 seats, the NDP with seven projected seats and the Green Party with one seat.