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• Two Alberta-based companies creating new uses for old tires

  14-10-2019 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  Two Alberta companies are taking tires and turning them into completely different products.
  
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• B.C. school districts target vaping, call for increased regulation

  14-10-2019 23:18 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  KELOWNA, B.C. - A British Columbia school board says it has “serious concerns” about the risk of vaping and is asking all levels of government to take action. In an example of how school districts are grappling with the new products amid shifting regulatory frameworks, the Central Okanagan School District outlined in a letter to parents on Friday how it is working to curb the use of e-cigarettes by students. Since May, the school district says it has met with local municipal governme
  
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• Elections Canada is working to help homeless people to vote

  14-10-2019 23:08 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
  MONTREAL -- Elections Canada is trying to reach out to a group of often forgotten people to vote in this year's elections: the homeless. There are more than 200,000 homeless in Canada, who, like other Canadians, want to make sure their voices are heard. "Interestingly enough, people who are experiencing homelessness are remarkably well informed," said Welcome Hall Mission CEO Sam Watts. "They read a lot of newspapers, they listen to a lot of radio and they watch a lot of TV." Watts said homeless
  
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• Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo named joint winners of Booker Prize

  14-10-2019 22:59 via ctvnews.ca
  LONDON -- Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood is sharing the Booker Prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo, after the prize jury tossed the rulebook out the window by naming two winners. Atwood is the fourth author to have won the prize twice and Evaristo is the first black woman to claim the prize since it began in 1969. At a ceremony in London Monday night, Atwood said she was surprised because she would have considered herself "too elderly" to win, adding that she doesn't need the a
  
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• Canadian author Margaret Atwood co-winner of Booker Prize

  14-10-2019 22:59 via ctvnews.ca
  LONDON -- Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood is sharing the Booker Prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo, after the prize jury tossed the rulebook out the window by naming two winners. Atwood is the fourth author to have won the prize twice and Evaristo is the first black woman to claim the prize since it began in 1969. In accepting the award, Atwood said she was surprised because she would have considered herself "too elderly" to win, adding that she doesn't need the attention. "It
  
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• 'Nothing-burger': US-China truce leaves big issues for later

  14-10-2019 22:56 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump heralded a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks, and markets rallied in relief over a de-escalation in tensions between the world's two biggest economies. But closer inspection suggests there isn't much substance, at least not yet, to the temporary truce Trump announced Friday at the White House after the U.S. and China wrapped up their 13th round of trade talks. Yes, Trump agreed to suspend a tariff hike scheduled for Tuesday on $250 billion worth of Chine
  
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• 'It always brings me to tears': Nurse first on scene remembers Humboldt Broncos crash

  14-10-2019 22:43 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Warning: This story contains graphic content Vivian York recalls that the debris was still flying when she drove up to an intersection where the Humboldt Broncos hockey bus and a semi-truck carrying peat moss had just collided. The nurse was coming home from a haircut and was the first person at the chaotic scene on a highway north of Tisdale, Sask., on April 6, 2018. Sixteen people died and 13 others were injured. She told The Canadian Press in a recent interview that she struggled after the ac
  
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• Harold Bloom, author of 'Anxiety of Influence,' dies at 89

  14-10-2019 22:40 via ctvnews.ca
  NEW YORK -- Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89. Bloom's wife, Jeanne, said that he had been failing health, although he continued to write books and was teaching as recently as last week. Yale says Bloom died at a New Haven, Connecticut, hospital. Bloom wrote more than 20 books
  
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• Lactose-sensitive baby formula recalled over possible contamination

  14-10-2019 22:26 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  VANCOUVER - A brand of lactose-sensitive baby formula has been recalled over concerns it could be contaminated with a potentially dangerous bacteria. Health officials said the powdered formula was sold nation-wide under the President's Choice label and packaged in white and purple containers that are marked "sensitive to lactose" and "tummy friendly." Loblaws Companies Ltd. issued a recall of the products over possible contamination of cronobacter, a bacteria that in rare cases can cause serious
  
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• US, critics split on whether tech made nuke shipments safer

  14-10-2019 22:24 via ctvnews.ca
  RENO, Nev. -- The plutonium core for the first atomic weapon detonated in 1945 was taken from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a test site in the New Mexico desert in the backseat of a U.S. Army sedan. Officials put other bomb parts inside a metal container, packed it into a wooden crate and secured it in the steel bed of a truck under a tarp, the U.S. Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration says in a historical account. Grainy black-and-white photos show special agents and
  
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• Canadians clean up at Rugby World Cup

  14-10-2019 21:37 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- After their final World Cup match against Namibia was cancelled, the Canadian Men’s Rugby Team took to the streets in Kamaishi, Japan this weekend, helping residents clean up after the devastation wrought by Typhoon Hagabis. “Once it (the game) got cancelled, we had a team meeting and decided we should go and see if we can help out wherever we can,” said former Calgary Hornet Gordon McRorie, who's a Canadian team member. “It was a pretty humbling experience to
  
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• ‘On my mind every day’: Nurse first to arrive at Humboldt crash describes life-altering scene

  14-10-2019 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  Vivian York recalls that the debris was still flying when she drove up to an intersection where the Humboldt Broncos hockey bus crashed.
  
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• Hitmen aim to extend hot start in Thanksgiving matinee at 'Dome

  14-10-2019 20:46 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- While the Flames have stumbled out of the starting gate in October, the outlook has been a lot brighter for the WHL's Calgary Hitmen. When they woke up Thanksgiving morning, preparing for a 2 p.m. tilt against the Saskatoon Blades at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Hitmen were sitting solidly in third place, where they’re tied with Lethbridge,  in the WHL’s Central Division, with a 4-1-1 record for nine points after six games. They currently trail Edmonton (7-1-3, 17 p
  
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• Five-year-old in wheelchair forced to prove he can walk at U.K. Legoland

  14-10-2019 20:39 via ctvnews.ca
  Legoland is defending asking a five-year-old U.K. boy in a wheelchair to prove he can walk. Joanna Brett was with her son Sebby at a U.K. Legoland’s ninja-themed ride when staff said he had to demonstrate his ability to walk in case of evacuation. He was asked to take three steps using just one hand for support. After a manager wasn’t satisfied, he was asked to complete what the park calls a “ride accessibility check” a second time before he was allowed on the ride. Sebby
  
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• Wild turkey gains celebrity status in Calgary neighbourhood by dodging Thanksgiving dinner plate

  14-10-2019 19:59 via ctvnews.ca
  TORONTO - A wild turkey dubbed ‘Turk’ has captured the hearts of Calgary residents in the community of Ramsay after the bird has evaded the dinner table for several months. A Facebook group devoted to Turk and the animal's whereabouts has over 900 members and dozens of photos posted to Twitter, it’s safe to say this creature has earned local celebrity status. Memes, fan art and daily postings about Turk roaming the streets and sidewalks of Ramsay populate the Loyal Followers of
  
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• Historic flatiron building in Lacombe on the market for $1.3M

  14-10-2019 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  Lacombe's flatiron building, one of only two in the province, is on the market for $1.3 million.
  
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• New 'Addams Family' movie animated by Vancouver studio

  14-10-2019 19:24 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  Cinesite Studios is proudly taking credit for completing its first full-length animated film at its Vancouver studio, the 2019 "The Addams Family" reboot. Some 240 Vancouver-based employees created the entire film, from storyboarding and design to final delivery, the company said in a news release. The movie is based on Charles Addams' New Yorker creations, which were adapted into a TV series in the 1960s. The characters re-appeared in more movies and TV series in the 1990s.  Several previo
  
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• Lethbridge police charge three with possession of stolen truck, property - CTV News

  14-10-2019 18:40
  Lethbridge police charge three with possession of stolen truck, property  CTV News
  
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• Lethbridge police charge three with possession of stolen truck, property

  14-10-2019 18:40 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- Friday, an off-duty member of the Lethbridge Police Service spotted a stolen vehicle in a local parking lot, off of Walshe Drive. Police located and arrested three people in the stolen vehicle. They subsequently discovered stolen property in the truck, which the trio had used Thursday to commit a number of thefts across southern Alberta the night before. The accused are 26-year-old Nevada Vandermeer, charged with 26 counts of possession of drugs, stolen vehicle, and stolen property; 2
  
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• White police officer in Texas resigns after killing black woman

  14-10-2019 17:42 via ctvnews.ca
  FORT WORTH, Texas -- A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force. Aaron Dean, 34, was booked into jail on a murder charge Monday afternoon. The police chief said earlier in the day that he acted without justification and would have been fired if he didn't quit. Police bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the ho
  
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• White Fort Worth officer resigns after killing black woman

  14-10-2019 17:42 via ctvnews.ca
  FORT WORTH, Texas -- A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman in her home while responding to a call about an open front door acted without justification and resigned Monday before he could be fired, the police chief said. Police bodycam video showed that Aaron Dean did not identify himself as an officer and fired a split-second after shouting at Atatiana Jefferson to show her hands. Jefferson, 28, was killed in front of her 8-year-old nephew, cut down by a bullet fire
  
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• Texas officer charged with murder, resigns after shooting

  14-10-2019 17:42 via ctvnews.ca
  FORT WORTH, Texas -- A white former Fort Worth police officer was being held in jail on a murder charge after shooting a black woman through a window of her home, and the department told a grieving community that investigators would ensure "no stone is left unturned" in the search for answers. Aaron Dean, 34, was jailed Monday night on $200,000 bond after being charged with murder in an incident that began with a call about an open front door. Earlier in the day he resigned from the force, and t
  
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• Texas officer charged with murder in shooting at home

  14-10-2019 17:42 via ctvnews.ca
  FORT WORTH, Texas -- A white former Fort Worth police officer was being held in jail on a murder charge after shooting a black woman through a window of her home, and the department told a grieving community that investigators would ensure "no stone is left unturned" in the search for answers. Aaron Dean, 34, was jailed Monday night on $200,000 bond after being charged with murder in a shooting that began with a call about an open front door. Earlier in the day he resigned from the force, and th
  
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• 'Save the kids!' Dorian survivor tells the harrowing story of his wife's death

  14-10-2019 17:28 via ctvnews.ca
  TORONTO -- Cialin Dany knew he was in trouble when he saw a massive palm tree laying on the ground next to the Abaco Lodge. As hurricane Dorian whirled at the door, Dany, 32, took his Canadian wife, Alishia Liolli, and two of their children and hunkered down in a room at the fishing resort where he worked. Then another tree slammed into the building. "The bolts start popping, like popcorn, pop, pop, pop, pop," Dany said. "Then whoosh, the roof flew off." The family and a friend who was with them
  
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• Fortnite leaves players staring at a black hole for hours ahead of Season 11 launch

  14-10-2019 16:33 via ctvnews.ca
  A special event to mark the end the tenth season of Fortnite has plunged legions of players into a black hole. Players logged in Sunday to participate in an event called "The End" as the game prepares to launch its next iteration. But around 2 p.m. EDT, a rocket on the island where Fortnite is set blew up the landscape in the game and dragged all of the players into a black hole, leaving nothing but a mostly dark screen and a spinning black hole and no way for users to play. The outage persisted
  
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• Passenger killed in Highway 21 collision involving utility trailer

  14-10-2019 16:15 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- One woman is dead following a collision on Highway 21 that took place  shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday evening. Police were called to the scene, between Township Roads 522 and 520, around 8:20 p.m. Strathcona County RCMP said that the female passenger of a vehicle was declared dead on scene, while the driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. On Monday, they revealed the vehicle crashed into a utility trailer that had come off a southbound truck. The crash is still under inve
  
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• Passenger killed Highway 21 collision involving utility trailer

  14-10-2019 16:15 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- One woman is dead following a collision on Highway 21 that took place  shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday evening. Police were called to the scene, between Township Roads 522 and 520, around 8:20 p.m. Strathcona County RCMP said that the female passenger of a vehicle was declared dead on scene, while the driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. On Monday, they revealed the vehicle crashed into a utility trailer that had come off a southbound truck. The crash is still under inve
  
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• One woman dead in Highway 21 collision

  14-10-2019 16:15 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- One woman is dead following a collision on Highway 21 that took place  shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday evening. Strathcona County RCMP said that the female passenger of a vehicle was declared dead on scene, while the driver had unknown injuries. Traffic was diverted on Highway 21 between Highway 522 and 520 early Monday while an analyst conducted an investigation of the scene. This is a developing story.
  
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• U.S. pulls troops in north Syria, threatens Turkey sanctions

  14-10-2019 16:00 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos, cries of betrayal and threats Monday by President Donald Trump to hit Turkey with "big sanctions." Defence Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that Trump had directed U.S. troops in northern Syria to begin pulling out "as safely and quickly as possible." He did not say Trump ordered troops to leave Syria, but that seemed like the next step in a combat zone growing more unstable by
  
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• Logan Boulet's legacy honoured at second annual Lethbridge tournament - Lethbridge News Now

  14-10-2019 16:00
  Logan Boulet's legacy honoured at second annual Lethbridge tournament  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Man walked more than 500 km to have sex with 14-year-old girl, prosecutors say

  14-10-2019 15:00 via ctvnews.ca
  A man walked from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin -- a 565-km journey -- to have sex with a person he believed was the 14-year-old girl he had been talking to on Facebook, prosecutors said. Instead, 32-year-old Tommy Lee Jenkins had been talking to a Winnebago County Sheriff's deputy working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a statement from the U,S, Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Wisconsin said. He is charged with using a computer to attempt to persuade, in
  
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• Author's speech cancelled after Georgia students burn book

  14-10-2019 14:44 via ctvnews.ca
  ATLANTA -- An author's second appearance at a Georgia university was cancelled after a few students burned copies of her book following an angry exchange during her first talk, which focused on diversity. Jennine Capo Crucet spoke Wednesday at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Freshmen were assigned to read her novel "Make Your Home Among Strangers," which deals in part with a young Cuban-American woman's struggle to adapt when she enrolls at an elite northeastern college. The assigning
  
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• Lethbridge's proposed waste collection system with organics similar to Coaldale's - Lethbridge News Now

  14-10-2019 14:02
  Lethbridge's proposed waste collection system with organics similar to Coaldale's  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Cycling great Eddy Merckx hospitalized after bike crash

  14-10-2019 13:52 via ctvnews.ca
  BRUSSELS -- A Belgian newspaper reported Monday that cycling great Eddy Merckx sustained head injuries in a crash while riding with friends. The Het Nieuwsblad newspaper said the 74-year-old Merckx crashed Sunday and was admitted to a hospital in Dendermonde. Merckx is regarded by many as the greatest cyclist ever. He won five Tour de France titles and a record 34 stages. The 2019 Tour de France began in Brussels in July and feted Merckx to mark the 50th anniversary of his first Tour victory. Kn
  
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• State of emergency in Manitoba amid unprecedented snowstorm

  14-10-2019 13:29 via ctvnews.ca
  WINNIPEG -- Nearly 21,000 Manitoba homes and businesses remained without power early Monday in the wake of a snowstorm that the province's Crown energy utility said had left an unprecedented amount of damage to transmission lines, towers and more, and will take days to repair. "In some areas, we have more lines and poles down than standing," Manitoba Hydro chief executive officer Jay Grewal said Sunday. "Our crews are out there working hard, 16 hours a day, doing their best to restore the power.
  
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• Japan storm victims felt worst was over, then floods came

  14-10-2019 13:12 via ctvnews.ca
  KAWAGOE, Japan -- After the worst of Typhoon Hagibis passed over this town north of Japan's capital, Kazuo Saito made sure there was no water outside his house and went to bed. Saito woke up a few times throughout the night to check, but by the time he woke for good on Sunday morning, the view outside his window was almost unrecognizable. "There was a huge river flowing in front of me," the 74-year-old said. The storm, which made landfall in the Tokyo region late Saturday, had dumped record amou
  
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• Hong Kong police say homemade bomb targeted officers

  14-10-2019 13:08 via ctvnews.ca
  HONG KONG -- A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to "kill or to harm" riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub. The "loud thud" Sunday night close to riot officers who had been clearing away a protester-built road block marked the first known use of an explosive device during protests that started in June over a contested
  
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• Cyber-bullied K-pop pop star Sulli found dead at home: report

  14-10-2019 12:23 via ctvnews.ca
  SEOUL, South Korea - A popular K-pop star who had long been the target of abusive online comments was found dead at her home Monday, South Korean police said. The body of Sulli, a former member of top girl group f(x), was discovered by her manager at her home on the outskirts of the capital, Seoul. Police said in a statement that the 25-year-old had been suffering from "severe depression". The exact cause of her death was still under investigation. South Korea has one of the world's highest rate
  
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• Economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize

  14-10-2019 11:57 via ctvnews.ca
  STOCKHOLM -- Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn't in the fight to reduce global poverty. The award went to MIT's Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer. The 46-year-old Duflo is the youngest ever to win the prize and only the second woman, after Elinor Ostrom in 2009. The three winners have worked togeth
  
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• WHL Roundup: Sunday, October 13, 2019

  14-10-2019 05:11 via globalnews.ca
  Carter Souch was the lone scorer in the shootout as the Edmonton Oil Kings edged the Portland Winterhawks 2-1 on Sunday in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Grande Prairie man's death suspicious: RCMP

  14-10-2019 05:01 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  The RCMP Major Crimes Unit has taken over an investigation into a Grande Prairie man's death. The man's body was found when local RCMP were called to an apartment building on Poplar Drive in the early morning of Oct. 13. Police found the man dead. His death has since been deemed suspicious. RCMP are not identifying the man at this time. Officials added there is no concern for public safety. Anyone with related information is asked to call Grande Prairie RCMP at 780-830-5700 or Crime Stoppers at
  
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• One sent to hospital in multi-vehicle crash

  14-10-2019 04:39 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  A female pedestrian was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries Sunday evening after she and several vehicles were involved in a collision on Macleod Trail. The crash happened around 7:15 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Macleod Trail near the Glenmore Trail SW exit. Calgary Police Service told CTV News Calgary one vehicle struck multiple other vehicles and the woman. At the time, it was believed no other drivers were injured. Alcohol is being investigated as a factor, but a cause of
  
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• Former Alta. resident charged with luring minor in B.C.

  14-10-2019 03:08 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  CALGARY -- A former Calgary resident with a history of sexual assault and sexual exploitation has been arrested and is being held in custody by B.C. police. Danny Edward Depew currently faces three charges: one count of telecommunications to lure a child under 16, and two counts of failing to comply with a probation order. Depew was arrested in Cranbook, B.C., on Sept. 30 in relation to an incident in Abbotsford, B.C., the previous month, Abbotsford police say. Calgary police twice warned the pu
  
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• Singh says NDP would form coalition with the Liberals to stop Tories

  14-10-2019 00:39 via election.ctvnews.ca
  OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Sunday he will do "whatever it takes" to keep the Conservatives from assuming power, including forming a coalition government with Justin Trudeau's Liberals. Singh was in a Liberal-held riding Sunday afternoon in Surrey, B.C., where he was pressed about his post-election intentions amid increasing rhetoric from Trudeau that voting Liberal is the only way centre-left voters can avoid making Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer prime minister.Sign up for our El
  
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