Airdrie

Airdrie motorists may want to take note of a recent study showing that Alberta is ranked fifth in Canada for road traffic injuries. This raises concerns about potential pressure on emergency healthcare services across the province, mainly since the city is near one of the province's main transport arteries, the QEII. 

The start of next week may bring more snow, with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) forecasting a 60 per cent chance of rain or flurries on Monday evening.

Are you in the Halloween spirit? "The Fixes' Not-so-Spooky Haunted House" is back for another year, with this year's theme being "Out of This World."

This year again, going through the haunted house will be free, Clifford and Tanya Fix the creators and owners of the event are asking residents to donate funds or food that will be given to the Airdrie Food Bank.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resisted calls for his resignation for more than a year now but in recent weeks those calls have grown louder and in some cases more public.

The Liberal caucus meets Wednesday and Trudeau is expected to be confronted by a group of MPs who have banded together to try and finally convince him to go.

Here’s what you need to know ahead of this meeting. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face down his own caucus members in a hotly anticipated meeting this morning, as several of them plan to try to convince him to step aside.

Rumours have circulated for weeks about an undisclosed number of Liberal MPs who have signed on to the effort to oust the prime minister in the hopes of improving the party's chances in the next election. 

That promises to make the regular weekly caucus meeting on Parliament Hill extra tense, as Trudeau has showed no signs of stepping down from the top job.

Chinook's Edge students can now enroll in a new dual credit course. Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) is offering kinesiology to dual-credit students for the first time.

"Chinook’s Edge has 12 students enrolled, along with other students from two other K-12 school divisions. The Kinesiology course is offered mostly online and in asynchronous classes, supported by staff at the school level," stated Chinook's Edge.

The Beiseker Lions Club has made another donation to STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Services), this time for $28,000.

For patients who are seriously ill or injured, STARS, a non-profit helicopter air ambulance organization in Canada, offers quick, specialized emergency care and transportation.

The funds were raised through their annual Beiseker Lions Club STARS Golf Classic. Alan Balson, Secretary of the Beiseker Lions Club, talked about how it went.

Ottawa marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament Hill Tuesday, but for the family of the reservist who was killed that day the memory is still raw.

"I can't believe it's been 10 years. It felt like it was yesterday," said Ephraim Cirillo after a private family ceremony held at the National War Memorial Tuesday morning.

We all know and love Faber Drive as a Canadian pop punk staple; however, they have switched genres and are totally going to be a Canadian country pop staple!

They released their first country song last year called, "Never Gone" (March 2023). I highly recommend you listen to it - you will love it!  

*Finger to ear and starts to sing,* "Never gone. Yeah, I go back in my mind. Before we gave up and lost the fight..." 

I always have it stuck in my head!

“Coffee is for us is a lifestyle. There's no child born, there is no wedding, there is no graduation – even there is no funeral – without a coffee ceremony.”

Yonas Gebre was born and raised on a coffee farm in Ethiopia’s Sidamo region, considered to be the birthplace of the beverage.

“Every morning, my mom used to roast the coffee for my dad, and that sound was my alarm clock,” he laughs. “Every morning she roasted, she ground, she brought in the clay pot, and she served my dad with that little cup. It is amazing. It is beautiful. It is our ritual.”