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Earlier this month, Mountain View County (MVC) honoured the Hadway family as the recipient of the 2024 Farm Family Award.

According to MVC, the Hadway family has deep roots in Alberta’s agriculture.

"Dating back to 1886 when Tom Hadway’s great-grandfather drove cattle to Langdon for the Powder River Cattle Company. Tom’s family immigrated from Ukraine, while Carol’s family settled east of Didsbury in 1911."

In 1974, Tom's parents purchased land in Didsbury, and after completing his education, Tom joined them to incorporate Westway Farms in 1983, explained MVC.

Airdrie and the surrounding areas could see upwards of eight centimetres of snow accumulate before Monday's end.

Alleged members of an Indian gang and its leader have been sending shivers down the spines of members of the South Asian diaspora in Canada for years, says a city councillor in Richmond, B.C.

Kash Heed said the Bishnoi gang, led by Lawrence Bishnoi, gained notoriety and instilled fear among Indian Canadians well before the RCMP accused the syndicate this week of orchestrating violent crimes on Canadian soil.

There was no clear winner in Saturday's British Columbia election, but the leader of the B.C. Conservatives says the province's political landscape has "changed forever," after his party pushed the incumbent New Democrats to the brink.

Neither party won enough seats to claim a majority, and vote counting was set to continue Sunday, with Premier David Eby's NDP in striking range of a minority government if he gets the co-operation of the Greens, who won two seats.

Potential recounts mean it could be next week before the winner is decided.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Airdrie and surrounding areas ahead of the first significant snowfall of the season, which is expected on Monday.

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Snowfall is forecast to begin Monday morning in the Calgary area and along the Highway 2 (QEII) corridor, gradually moving east throughout the day.

Fire Safety Day, hosted by the Airdrie Fire Department at the Chinook Winds Fire Station today, has seen a multitude of visitors come and go throughout the afternoon. 

The executive team from the Assembly of First Nations will meet in the coming days to discuss how to proceed with new negotiations for a child welfare reform deal after chiefs voted against the government's proposed $47.8 billion agreement at a meeting in Calgary Thursday.

AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who had helped negotiate the deal and pushed for it to be approved, was blunt in her assessment of the outcome in her closing remarks to the special chiefs assembly Friday.

Here's a look at some of this week's top news photos as selected by editors.

B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is seen through a bus windshield as he arrives for a campaign stop in Nanaimo, B.C., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada announced the details of a $64.8 million military aid package to Ukraine Friday as National Defence Minister Bill Blair attended a NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels.

Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia was a key topic at the meeting, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the ministers during the meeting.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, chairing his first NATO defence ministers' meeting since taking the role earlier in October, said the alliance's members are on track to deliver almost $60 billion in security assistance to Ukraine.

Airdrie Rural RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect and his associates involved in an attempted robbery at CrossIron Mills Mall on October 2, in which the victim was bear sprayed. The incident took place around 3:42 p.m. near entrance 3 of the mall.