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The world-renowned RCMP Musical Ride will be featured during Westerner Days Fair & Exposition this year.

Each year from May to October, the RCMP Musical Ride travels across Canada, visiting up to 50 communities and rotating through provinces to ensure as many Canadians as possible can experience it.

This year, Westerner Days has been selected to host the riders for fairgoers to experience this Canadian tradition, which will be included with admission to the fair.

Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS) is celebrating the remarkable achievement of Dane Schmidt, a grade 12 student from St. Joseph High School, who captured the gold medal in the welding-secondary competition at the Skills Alberta Provincial Competition held last week in Edmonton. 

Among the tour groups converging on Parliament Hill under umbrellas this week, new and newly re-elected members of Parliament are getting acquainted with their offices and colleagues ahead of the opening of the House of Commons this week. 

The first order of business for MPs is the selection of a new House Speaker on Monday morning, and at least six returning members are asking their colleagues to support their bid to take the chair. 

Parkland RCMP received a report of a missing person. Denika House was last seen on April 9, 2025, in the Duffield area.

She is known to be transient and has previously been located in the Wetaskiwin, Edmonton, Paul First Nation areas.  Officials are concerned for her well-being.

Denika is described as;

The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame 2025 Induction Ceremony is happening on June 7, at the Red Deer Resort & Casino.

This year, an inspiring class of athletes, builders, and contributors whose achievements have left a lasting impact on Alberta’s sports community will be honoured.

Red Deer Polytechnic even has a historic Queens Volleyball teams among the inductees.

2025 Inductees

Athletes:

With the arrival of warmer weather and longer days, children are spending more time outside — whether walking to a friend’s house, heading to the park or just enjoying the outdoors.

The Alberta RCMP is reminding parents and guardians that this is a good time to check in with children about staying safe and being aware of their surroundings.

Canada Post customers may face delays as tens of thousands of workers swear off overtime shifts, though a much bigger disruption was averted after the union backed down from a strike threat.

Nonetheless, the possibility of escalating job action could continue to scare off customers who pulled their shipments over the past couple of weeks, draining more business from the cash-strapped organization.

“I’m scared for the future,” said Edmonton mail carrier Dustin Ellis, who recently went on leave to study for a new career in social work.

Top officials at the Canada Revenue Agency say mounting job cuts will impact how the agency is able to deliver services.

Commissioner Bob Hamilton and deputy commissioner Jean-François Fortin said in a message to staff Thursday that up to 280 employees will lose their jobs at the agency.

The agency has been examining its operating budget for more than two years to meet a demand from the government to find savings. 

Alberta’s government is investing nearly $7 million to create six new Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) teams to protect communities at risk from wildfires.  

In response to increased wildfire activity in recent years, Alberta’s government is acting to better safeguard communities and strengthen the way emergencies are responded to. This includes record investments in equipment and personnel, as well as targeted strategies to enhance local firefighting capacity, readiness and resilience. 

Crop would be eligible for biofuel tax credit under recent budget proposals in Congress

U.S. President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” could contain some beautiful news for Canada’s canola growers.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ ways and means committee has released its draft proposals for the U.S. budget reconciliation bill.

The proposals include provisions to amend the controversial 45Z clean fuel production tax credit so that canola oil-based biodiesel and renewable diesel would be eligible for the credit.