A number of LGBQT+2s groups in Central Alberta are pushing back against a request from the Red Deer South UCP constituency to reinstate MLA Jennifer Johnson into the UCP caucus.
“There is nothing to do in Red Deer.” Red Deer also has the nickname “Dead Rear”. The exasperating part is that both the comment and moniker are most often heard from Red Deerians themselves, including ones that should know better. Such municipal “pride” is anemic to the development of our potential. Sometimes I think we are successful in spite of ourselves, at other times I notice we are overwhelming underachievers.
EDMONTON The head of an LGBTQ group in central Alberta says he wasn't surprised a candidate who compared transgender students in schools to feces in food won her seat in Monday's provincial election, which saw the United Conservative Party win a majority government.