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A Fort McMurray man on a Canada-wide warrant was apprehended on May 13 north of Lac La Biche after multiple RCMP units were deployed to a high-risk takedown.

‘Silence cannot be the marker of strength anymore. I want to break the stigma, and we can’t change what we don’t dare speak of,’ says Blaise Hunter, a certified reproductive health rights advocate and the founder of the Footprints initiative.

Alberta’s United Conservative Party emerged bloodied but still standing in Monday’s bitterly contested provincial election.

UCP candidate elect Scott Cyr swept the Bonnyville-Cold-Lake-St. Paul riding, taking about 75 per cent of the vote according to reports by Elections Alberta shortly after midnight on May 30.

The Lakeland region communities of Mallaig, Vilna, St. Lina, Ashmont, and Spedden are within the constituency.

Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk (UCP) earned her second term with 61 per cent of the votes, nearly double the NDP candidate Taneen Rudyk

By 11:15 p.m. on Monday evening, the UCP had won 33 seats, compared to just 20 for the NDP.

UCP candidate Scott Cyr is leading in the polls by more than 800 votes compared to NDP candidate Caitlyn Blake, as more than half of the polling stations in the Bonnyville-Cold Lake- St. Paul are reporting ballot counts.

Glenn Van Dijken with UCP has a strong lead in tonight's election.

No comments from candidates yet, as vote tallies come in slowly