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A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says 83 per cent of adults in this country have a regular primary-care provider, but that still leaves 5.4 million adults without one. 

It says seniors 65 years and older are more likely to have access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner than younger adults between 18 and 34. 

Access to primary care is highest in Ontario and lowest in Nunavut. 

A Steinbach business, that has roots in agriculture, has made the final ballot for the Best of America Small Business Awards.

Cameron Bergen is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of mode40. Bergen explains they work primarily with Fortune 1000 manufacturing organizations across Canada and the United States. 

"We take data, and we turn it into money," says Bergen, explaining that they help optimize processes through analyzing, optimizing, and disseminating information using software, artificial intelligence, and other tools. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his MPs Wednesday that he would reflect on what they had to say in a three-hour caucus meeting where some Liberals confronted him about his leadership.

Trudeau was smiling when he left the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, and as he walked briskly past a horde of reporters on Parliament Hill he said only that the Liberal party is "strong and united."

Cochrane hockey player Kadon McCann has been named to the NHL Central Scouting’s preliminary players to watch list ahead of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft.

The 17-year-old centre is listed as a C-rated players who is so far projected as fourth or fifth-round pick in the NHL draft next June. 

The 6'3" 200 lb. centre is in his second full season with the Medicine Hat Tigers and one of two players being watched from the WHL team. He played 68 regular season and five playoff games with the Tigers last season and is 10 games into the current one.

Three Rocky View School Division (RVS) schools are over 100 per cent capacity according to Sept. 30 enrolment numbers.

With an enrolment of 396 students, the Cochrane Christian Academy in East Cochrane is at 129 per cent capacity. Bow Valley High is at 113 per cent with 983 students, and Fireside School is at 102 per cent with 915 students.

Cochrane High is at 98 per cent of capacity, Glenbow School, 97 per cent, and Manachaban. 95 per cent.

Collectively, their nine schools in Cochrane are at 93 per cent capacity.

For the past 25 years, Cochrane’s own Mark Haynes and his family has transformed their home into a spooky haunted experience, and this year will be no different.

His home in Heritage Hills is now set with numerous ghosts, goblins and clowns making way for a special Halloween preview this Sunday.

“This last two weeks, my wife and my son and I have been working diligently to get it together,” says Haynes.

Cochrane skateboarders only have another week to use the Zero Gravity Skate Park before it closes for the season. 

The skate park will close on October 31 (weather depending). 

The popular park recently received some fresh upgrades with the addition of a Pier 7 style ledge and manual pad, along with a 2.5’ high quarter pipe.

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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.

Former Cochrane mayor Judy Stewart is tired of what she says are tasteless political shenanigans against Town Councillor Marni Fedeyko.

She's asking residents to stand behind the town councillor at a rally today (Oct. 23) from 5 to 6 p.m. by the "Chicken Lady" in the heart of Historic Cochrane (1st St. W.).

"This will be a very calm and peaceful rally with no specific outcome other than raising public awareness that we've had enough," she says in her event posting.

She says she no longer has faith in any member of council except Fedeyko.