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Town facilities in High River will be temporarily closed on Wednesday (Sept. 25).

It's to allow town staff time for more training along with a general meeting and Indigenous awareness activities.

This means High River's Town Hall and Reception along with the Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex will be closed.

A cartoon in Blackfoot is getting a world premiere.

Celestine Twigg is a teacher from Fort Macleod who teaches the Blackfoot language at the Piikani Nation Secondary School, and she's hoping to teach people the Blackfoot language through cartoons, similar to Sesame Street.

She recently created and released a cartoon called POOS, which means cat in Blackfoot, and it does just that.

POOS is a personal story that shows the daily life of Twigg's cat Thumper.

It's narrated by Twigg's late son Troy Emery Twigg in the Blackfoot language.

Three RCMP members from a Metro Vancouver detachment could be fired over alleged "atrocious," "racist" and "horrible" behaviour detailed by a fellow officer, including text chats that bragged about "Tasering unarmed black people," court documents say. 

A schedule from the RCMP shows Constables Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah are slated to appear next February for code of conduct hearings over allegations including discrimination, harassment and discrediting the police force.

None of the allegations have been proven. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future amid increasing geopolitical instability around the world.

"Canada will have a leading role in making the world fairer and more prosperous," Trudeau said in a news release last week. "I look forward to working with other leaders to accelerate progress on our shared priorities and build a better future for everyone."

Fresh off his CCMA Award win, Jade Eagleson joins us this weekend as our guest of honour! We'll discuss touring with Cody Johnson, the CCMA Awards, his upcoming Grand Ole Opry debut, and his latest single with Jake Worthington. And we'll look back on this week in 2018 with a #1 from Gord Bamford. 

Tune in to The Canadian Country Showcase on Saturdays at 12 PM and Sundays at 4 PM.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says close to 45,000 Canadians are in Lebanon, months after warning there is no guarantee Ottawa can evacuate them if the situation deteriorates further.

She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.

"My message to Canadians who even think of going to Lebanon is don't go, and I've been saying that for months," she told reporters Friday in Toronto.

Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and the McGill University Health Centre have filed motions to dismiss their lawsuit.

Glenn Landry's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Harter, was among the hundreds of people to receive experimental treatments under the MK-ULTRA program, funded by the Canadian government and the CIA between the 1940s and 1960s at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, which was affiliated with McGill University.

The Heritage Junior B (HJHL) opened the 2024-2025 season Friday night (Sept. 20) with the Carstar Okotoks Bisons taking the first meeting against the High River Flyers 5-3 at Murray Arena.

With the Flyers' home rink at Bob Snodgrass Rec Plex getting renovations, High River who already played four pre-season games on the road, will continue to play on the road for the next month and a half. Many players will tell you, however, that the strongest bonds are built on road trips so it could be a blessing in disguise for the Flyers.

The Okotoks Oilers opened up their first full season in the BCHL Friday night (Sept. 20) at the newly named Viking Rentals Centre with a 5-0 loss to the Brooks Bandits.

To start the game the Green and Gold introduced the 2024-2025 roster to the 1,074 fans in attendance. Only six returning players were announced in the new team captain Jackson Rowland, new assistant captain Brett Wilson, Ryder De Nys, Hunter Sawka, Kade Duell, and Brennan Hocher.

In a haunting message from beyond the grave, Métis Elder Sonny James MacDonald recounted being incarcerated for more than two years at an Indian Hospital in Edmonton in the 1940s for tuberculosis treatment, suffering abuse and isolation as a child.

"After the surgery … they took it upon themselves … that they should take my pajama bottoms off to prevent me from walking around," MacDonald, a renowned carver who died in 2021, said in a video clip taken from a documentary released that same year.