Strathmore

With Christmas coming up next month 104.5 More Country will ring in the holiday season with the Santa Claus Parade!

Carey Rose, the owner and realtor with the Reps at RE/MAX Key will join Keesyn Glawson Friday morning just after 7:30 a.m.

Also, make sure you're listening right after the interview for the Jeep Wrangle Winter Word of the Day.

Earlier this year, Protein Industries Canada announced a project and partnership with agriculture companies to help improve plant-based products including cheese. Partnering with Daiya Foods, Ingredion, Ingredion Plant Based Specialties (IPBPS) and Lovingly Made Flour Mills; the goal is to use Canadian grown crops such as peas and faba beans to help improve the taste, texture, and overall quality of plant-based cheese.  

The Strathmore Municipal Library's popular Cat Cafe returns on Saturday (Nov. 16).

The event is a joint effort between the library and Happy Cat Sanctuary, with this being the fourth time that the cafe has been set up in town.

According to public services manager Laura Henderson, the event runs a little differently from most cat cafes.

"We set up an area for visiting with the cats, and Happy Cat has volunteers that will man that area," said Henderson. "We will also have some treats as a fundraiser, which can be purchased outside of the room."

The Strathmore & District Agricultural Society asked town council on Wednesday (Nov. 13) for funding for the Strathmore Stampede and space to host the RCMP Musical Ride event.

"Since that time when I came to see you in 2019, our revenues have reached $3.85 million. They were $1.9 million in that time in 2019," says Ryan Schmidt, general manager of the Strathmore Ag Society.

Schmidt mentioned the society has $3.5 million in expenses and any profit is being put back into the community.

MLA Chantelle de Jonge will travel her riding of Chestermere-Strathmore to discuss what's impacting residents.

People are encouraged to go and have a cup of coffee and chat with de Jonge.

De Jonge will be at the following locations:

One person is dead after a crash near Drumheller on Thursday (Nov. 14).

RCMP say they responded to reports of a head-on collision on Highway 9 near Highway 836.

Three local fire departments and EMS also arrived at the scene.

Police discovered that the collision involved a detached semi-truck and a sedan.

The crash led to the highway being shut down for several hours as officers investigated. The highway has since reopened. 

Several Strathmore High School students were recognized at the first-ever Academic Achievement Awards ceremony.

The awards were presented by principal Douglas Raycroft and vice principal Agnieszka Barwacz Riou in the school's theatre on Wednesday (Nov. 13).

"Your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have truly paid off," said Barwacz Riou. "Each of you has demonstrated exceptional academic excellence by achieving the highest average on four to five core subjects."

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

The agency said in a statement Wednesday that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to viruses found in B.C. flocks in an ongoing outbreak at poultry farms.