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The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is asking for the public’s help in locating a woman wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a minor at a south Calgary CTrain station.

On Sunday, June 1, at approximately 3:30 p.m., a woman is believed to have approached a 13-year-old boy near the platform at the Somerset-Bridlewood CTrain station.

"The woman engaged the boy in conversation and made comments of a sexual nature," CPS said in a media release. "She then proceeded to touch him in a sexual manner."

With the end of the crop year coming up on July 31st, we are starting to see a seasonal slowdownof grain movement.

CN's Assistant Vice President of Grain, David Przednowek says even with the seasonal decline, they have still registered just over half a million tonnes of grain movement per week over the past couple of weeks.

"We are seeing the demand for CN supply hopper cars for grain movement decline. You know, in the past couple of weeks we've seen orders for CN supply equipment in that 3334 car per week range. "

Ducks Unlimited Canada agrologist has promoted winter cereals for decades and remains hopeful about the crop’s future

Winter wheat was a big deal on the Prairies from about 2006 to 2014.

Total acreage ranged from 800,000 to 1.3 million, with the lion’s share of the crop seeded in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Ken Gross, a Ducks Unlimited Canada agrologist who has promoted winter cereals for decades, described that period as the “second wave” of winter wheat on the Prairies.

The closure of a Diamond Valley road has been extended indefinitely.

On Monday, July 7, the Town posted to social media saying the closure of DUnham Road has been extended due to unforeseen construction challenges.

Former High River Town Councillor Carol MacMillan is running to be the town's next mayor.

MacMillan is a one-time former Town Councillor and has stayed very involved with the ongoings at Town Hall and within the town itself.

She said she's been listening to what a lot of locals would like to see happen in town, and she wants them to know that they've been heard.

Some telecommunications repair work will cause a lane to be closed in Okotoks for a few days.

The telecommunications box repair work will take place at 142 Milligan Drive, and while the work is happening, one of the lanes will be closed.

One of the lanes, though, will remain open while the work is being completed.

Bruce Burnett, Director of Weather and Markets with Glacier Farm Media says that's mainly driven by various factors affecting the broader oilseed market.

Rainfall across the prairies and even provincially has been quite variable this year.

Some areas have seen some pretty wicked storms bringing heavy rain, high winds and hail.

The Canadian Crop Hail Association says storm activity across the prairies in the last two weeks of June resulted in farmers filing well over 2000 hail claims.

According to the report mid-June thunderstorms dropped pea- to toonie-sized hail across Western Canada.  

On Monday (July 7), the Gleichen RCMP received a weapons complaint, leading to the arrest of one individual.  

It was reported that the suspect was waving a knife at people on Main Street in Gleichen.   

The police arrived, they located and arrested a male, who was in possession of a large kitchen knife.    

World wheat stocks could climb to 271 million tonnes by the end of 2025-26, up from 264 million tonnes at the end of 2024-25

There will be plenty of wheat in the world in 2025-26, say analysts.

“As we enter mid-year Northern Hemisphere harvest, a larger-than-expected crop is expected to limit the upside in global wheat prices,” Dennis Voznesenski, agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in his recent Agri Commodity Weekly Alert.