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Peace Region News

Missing Person
Peace River RCMP looking for missing person
Peace River RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a missing 50-year-old man.Dallen Semansha, a residents of Chateh, Alberta, was last seen in Peace River on Dec. 13, 2025.Mounties say they are concerned for his well-being and would like to talk to him.Semansha is described as:Medium complexion;5 feet, 7 inc...
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Community
Beaverlodge author releases new Christmas-Romance book
A Beaverlodge resident has released her second Christmas-themed book.Kirsten Clark's The Secret Ingredient follows the story of a pastry chef and the owner of his shop as they face the hardships of a holiday rush and a troubling medical diagnosis.The Christian-Fiction Christmas Romance is a sequel to Clark's 2024 relea...
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RCMP
Grande Prairie RCMP warn of poor road conditions
Grande Prairie RCMP are responding to multiple motor vehicle collisions across the city and rural areas due to poor road conditions.Mounties say freezing rain and heavy snowfall have produced dangerous conditions and are asking the public to avoid all unnecessary travel.Anyone who must drive is asked to be cautious and...
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City Hall
Inclusion Grande Prairie hoping for policy from city hall on recreation for people with intellectual disabilities
Inclusion Grande Prairie is pushing to see some policies about recreation for people with intellectual disabilities from City Hall Council asked administration to prepare a report to include what is available, what isn't, and possible cost implications and bring it back to a committee meeting.President Keith Moore says...
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Alberta

$1.17B In Funding
Ottawa, Alberta agree to extend $15-a-day child-care fees to 2027
Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal.The two jointly announced an extension on the current deal, with the federal government providing Alberta more than $1.17-billion dollars in funding.It will extend both the earl...
Dec 12, 2025
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Alberta RCMP
Alberta RCMP remove 50 impaired drivers for National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day
Alberta RCMP removed 50 impaired drivers from the roads on Saturday, Dec. 6 as part of their role in National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.Of the 50 drivers, 28 received Immediate Roadside Sanctions FAILS, 13 received WARNS, and six novice or commercial drivers were removed for IRS ZEROES."These statistics are...
Dec 12, 2025
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Complaint Filed
Alberta's teachers accusing province of bad faith bargaining over recent strike
Alberta's teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board against the government's bargaining agent.Schilling says during the labour standoff, the go...
Dec 12, 2025
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Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press
Elections Alberta gets extra $6.7M to handle outburst of recall petitions
Elections Alberta is getting $6.7 million in extra funding to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members.A legislature committee unanimously granted the funding at a meeting today.Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure requested the extra money because his office is managing 21 active re...
Dec 12, 2025
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Provincial Politics
Advocacy groups apply to keep court case against Alberta trans law alive
Two advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government on transgender laws say they are switching tactics to continue their battle in court.The renewed challenge from the groups Egale and Skipping Stone comes one day after Premier Danielle Smith's government used the Charter's notwithstanding clause.The clause allows gove...
Dec 11, 2025
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Provincial Politics
Alberta MLAs championing cross-border ties with U.S. lawmakers
Alberta MLAs Jennifer Johnson and Shane Getson are planning to build on a year of engagement with U.S. state legislators at the Council of State Governments National Conference in Chicago. That's according to Alberta government officials who say the MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka Jennifer Johnson and MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Park...
Dec 11, 2025
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Canada

In the news: Rain to continue in B.C., Hudson's Bay window display, youth happiness
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 'High impact' warning as heavy rains forecast to cause more flooding in B.C. The B.C. government says heavy rains in the forecast may cause more flooding in low-ly...
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There's a happiness gap between young people in Quebec and in the rest of Canada
MONTREAL - Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal's Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged. Outside Quebec, that is. Bujold's home province is an outlier among...
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Canadian Blood Services reducing reliance on U.S. for life-changing plasma drugs
TORONTO - For years, Stéphane Cliche was a healthy avid athlete, but he kept getting sinus and respiratory infections and doctors couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2016 that it became clear his imm...
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Statistics Canada set to report November inflation data this morning
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to publish inflation figures for November this morning. A Reuters poll ahead of the release showed the consensus among economists was for headline inflation for the month to come in at 2.3 per cent, according to LSEG D...
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Young Canadians tell of their generations' challenges and hopes
The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people across the country about challenges facing their generation - and ways they continue to find joy. 'YOU'RE HUMAN AND YOU FEEL THINGS' Violet Rode, an 18-year-old theatre student at Dawson College in...
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How did Canada's young people become its unhappiest generation?
VANCOUVER - As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25. He and his high school friends would be starting families. They'd be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably. Now 27, he's back living with his p...
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World News

Australian Prime Minister Albanese proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney
SYDNEY (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead. Albanese ...
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Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
HONG KONG (AP) - Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city's court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of...
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Kansas City Chiefs dice que Patrick Mahomes sufre ruptura de ligamento en la rodilla izquierda
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, EE.UU. (AP) - Kansas City Chiefs dice que Patrick Mahomes sufre ruptura de ligamento en la rodilla izquierda. The Associated Press
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Father and son gunmen kill at least 15 people in attack on Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach
SYDNEY (AP) - Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that ...
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Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski describes Belarus prison ordeal in first interview after release
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veter...
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Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A person of interest detained after a Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine will be released after law enforcement authorities determined there was no basis to keep the individual in ...
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