Strathmore

With just three weeks to go until election day, Canada's federal party leaders are back on the road today.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to make an announcement in Toronto today following weekend campaign stops on the East Coast, where he announced plans to impose national rent control and to get every Canadian access to a family doctor in the next five years.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is wrapping up a campaign sweep on the West Coast today before flying to Edmonton for a rally.

Cereals Canada has released a series of sustainability reports for Canadian non-durum wheat, durum wheat, barley, and oats to demonstrate how the cereals value chain is meeting the challenge of sustainable cereal production.

“Canada is a global leader in the production of high-quality, nutritious, and sustainable cereal grains,” said Mark Walker, vice-president of markets and trade. “These reports confirm that Canadian farmers grow some of the most sustainable crops in the world.”

Protesters rallied in several cities across the country on Sunday to demonstrate against Donald Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty, as backlash to an American president who appears bent on upending the global order gains momentum.

Despite softer-than-expected tariffs against Canada last week and a more cordial tone from the White House over the past week, the echo from Trump's repeated remarks about making Canada the 51st state continues to ring in Canadians' ears.

The NDP promised to protect tenants through national rent control while the Conservatives focused their campaign trail message on addictions treatment Sunday.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in Halifax in the morning that his party would tie federal housing funding for provinces and municipalities to tenant protection policies like rent control.

The NDP says housing and rent prices in Canada have doubled since 2015 and the average asking rent hit $2,109 per month in January.

Police say they've charged a 31-year-old Ottawa man with several offences following an incident that placed an area of Parliament Hill under lockdown on Saturday.

Ottawa police said in a media statement Sunday that a man entered East Block in downtown Ottawa at 2:40 p.m. Saturday and started issuing threats to those inside.

Security officials isolated the man in a security screening area while police evacuated the building, which mostly houses offices for senators and their staff.

Police said the man surrendered peacefully after hours of negotiations.

Chestermere is planning to celebrate parents who welcomed a child in 2024.

"Any families located within Chestermere are welcome to apply. The City of Chestermere, through the Parks Department, subsidizes the cost of the trees, making this an excellent and affordable opportunity for families to participate," the city said in a release.

The birth forest planting event will take place on May 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Westmere Environmental Reserve.

Brooks RCMP have found a missing woman.

Yasmine Agostino was reported missing on Friday morning.

She was located safe on Saturday morning.

The Strathmore Municipal Library is hosting a delicious literary event.

On Saturday, Apr. 5, the library will put on its annual Edible Book Day, with the event set to start at noon.

The contest involves residents creating cakes and other sweets based off of their favourite books. The event begins with a public viewing and voting before the prizes are awarded at 2 p.m.

A sentencing hearing for a Calgary couple in the death of their badly burned and emaciated toddler has been rescheduled for next month.

Sonya Pasqua and Michael Sinclair pleaded guilty in December to manslaughter.

Gabriel Sinclair-Pasqua, who was 18 months old, died in 2021 after suffering major burns to a third of his body.

An agreed statement of facts says the parents didn’t seek medical treatment and tried to treat the burns with honey before the child died from an infection and head trauma.

Strathmore Motor Products is hosting a fundraiser this weekend.

The dealership is inviting residents to test drive any available vehicle, with $20 being donated to the Strathmore Hospital Auxiliary fund for each joyride.

Les Smith, vehicle sales manager at the dealership, says they've been running this fundraiser for eight years.

"It was a program at that time sponsored by General Motors, but this time this is just all Strathmore Motors. This is just us, and we just kind of dug it out of the archives and thought, let's give it a go."