The Red Deer Advocate

Dredging Today
USA: Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve Opens to Public
Dredging Today
Over time researchers and others visiting the site have identified more than 280 species of birds, 29 species of butterflies, 16 species of mammals (including red fox, coyote, mink, and deer), 2 species of reptiles, 26 Ohio plant species (including ...

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Leong: Heads in the sand on ecstasy abuse
Calgary Sun
Ald. John Mar, who's also advocating an anti-drug campaign in Calgary, said he didn't agree with the approach but welcomed the educational aspect of the Red Deer campaign. This tepid reaction is curious, seeing how we've long embraced a form of harm ...

What's up with this warm winter weather?
Ct Post
Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo Ryan Pauta, 4, plays on the swings at John J. Boccuzzi Park on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo A serene sunset falls on the docks ...

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What's up with this warm winter weather?
Greenwich Time
Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo Ryan Pauta, 4, plays on the swings at John J. Boccuzzi Park on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo A serene sunset falls on the docks ...

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What's up with this warm winter weather?
Ct Post
Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo Ryan Pauta, 4, plays on the swings at John J. Boccuzzi Park on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Photo: Lindsay Niegelberg / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo A serene sunset falls on the docks ...

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OB Rag
Hundreds of San Diego Kaiser Workers Stage 24 Hour Strike – Again
OB Rag
About 100 red-clad workers stood outside Kaiser Antioch Medical Center on Deer Valley Road. Some held signs with a line through the word “Thrive,” a Kaiser slogan. “They're really seeing an opportunity to use the economy for these cuts, ...

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Matriarch of ecstasy blames drug laws for deadly drug recipes
Calgary Sun
A Red Deer man who died last month is the latest corpse linked to PMMA, a potentially deadly designer drug almost impossible to tell apart from Shulgin's MDMA. It's certainly being sold as ecstasy, but PMMA is easy to overdose from, and it has a nasty ...

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Scotties play-in weekend: Thrills and heartbreak
Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
Team Nedohin will have the fans on her side as she chases the Canadian title in Red Deer next month. By FRED RINNE, HammerTime It was the weekend to finalize the field for The Scotties, Canada's women's curling championship set for Red Deer next month.

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Experts dish on best shrubs, trees to consider for your landscape
Chicago Daily Herald
Woods is very fussy with his breeding, insisting on perfection in color, size, flatness of bloom, streaks of red, shape and size of centers, vigor and the way the petals meet. “I didn't want to cross the Pink Chiffon with anything,” he said.

Kingston-born skip in good spot at Ontario Scotties
The Kingston Whig-Standard
The winner advances to the national Scotties in Red Deer, Alta. Former Ontario Scotties champ Anne Merklinger, whose career in high-performance sport spans more than four decades as an athlete and leader, was named Thursday as chief executive officer ...

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Shiraz Shariff stuns Ken Hughes to capture Calgary-West PC nomination
Vancouver Sun
The Red Deer Advocate reported this week that a “smear campaign” against Clark divided voters. “We'll deal with that in a sensible fashion,” Clark said Saturday following his defeat. “That's another journey. “I'ma Tory first, and we'll be there ...

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Shiraz Shariff stuns Ken Hughes to capture Calgary-West PC nomination
Vancouver Sun
The Red Deer Advocate reported this week that a “smear campaign” against Clark divided voters. “We'll deal with that in a sensible fashion,” Clark said Saturday following his defeat. “That's another journey. “I'ma Tory first, and we'll be there ...

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Shiraz Shariff stuns Ken Hughes to capture Calgary-West PC nomination
Vancouver Sun
The Red Deer Advocate reported this week that a “smear campaign” against Clark divided voters. “We'll deal with that in a sensible fashion,” Clark said Saturday following his defeat. “That's another journey. “I'ma Tory first, and we'll be there ...

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Calgary Tories join riding battle
Calgary Herald
RIMBEY-ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE-SUNDRE: Former high school principal Jimmy Clark is challenging incumbent Tory Ty Lund, first elected in 1989, in today's Tory nomination vote. The Red Deer Advocate reported this week that a "smear campaign" against Clark ...

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A Rocket ride through history
The Lacombe Globe
From the BC interior to the Lakehead the most memorable were the Trail Smoke Eaters, Kimberly Dynamiters, Nelson Maple Leafs, Penticton Vees, Drumheller Miners, Red Deer Rustlers, Lacombe Rockets, Saskatoon Quakers, Yorkton Terriers, Kenora Thistles, ...

Rocket ride through history
Edmonton Sun
... your correspondent has resulted in considerable reflection. I sincerely wonder if it would have ever happened to me if I hadn't had the Lacombe Rockets to grow up watching and eventually to end up covering for the Lacombe Globe and Red Deer Advocate.

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Foothills Regional Emergency Services Commission justifies its rate increase
Vulcan Advocate
By Simon Ducatel/Vulcan Advocate s requested by Town council at its last meeting, the Foothills Regional Emergency Services Commission (FRESC) executive director came to justify the commission's rate increase. "Is there something specific to that (the ...

Resisting "soft-totalitarianism" in Canada? (Part Three)
Enter Stage Right
A Protestant minister had a rather pointed letter about homosexuality published in the Red Deer Advocate (a major local newspaper) in Alberta. A homosexual activist complained to the Alberta Human Rights Commision, with the result that the minister was ...

Canada creates office to promote religious freedom overseas yet stifles ...
Greeley Gazette
Pastor Steven Boissoin was taken before the Alberta Human Rights Commission after Dr. Darren Lund, a homosexual activist, objected to the letter published in the Red Deer Advocate. The tribunal ruled that the pastor would have to “cease publishing in ...

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2011 YEAR IN REVIEW
Sicamous Eagle Valley News
A 30-year-old Red Deer, Alta. man died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with the rear end of a semi trailer. Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Carl Vinet says that at 9 am on Aug. 19, officers were called to the scene of a serious motor vehicle collision ...