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• Unwanted items too large to fit in black bin? City of Calgary's community cleanup offers a solution - CTV Toronto

  25-04-2021 23:37 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Unwanted items too large to fit in black bin? City of Calgary's community cleanup offers a solution  CTV Toronto
  
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• Two teens hospitalized after West Hillhurst stabbing - Calgary Herald

  25-04-2021 23:13 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Two teens hospitalized after West Hillhurst stabbing  Calgary Herald
  
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• Calgary Flames: Odds That Each Pending UFA Gets a Contract Extension - The Hockey Writers

  25-04-2021 23:10 via thehockeywriters.com
  
  Calgary Flames: Odds That Each Pending UFA Gets a Contract Extension  The Hockey Writers
  
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• Calgary Zoo's oldest stone dinosaur getting patched up - CBC.ca

  25-04-2021 22:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Calgary Zoo's oldest stone dinosaur getting patched up  CBC.ca
  
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• Snowfall warnings end for areas of southern Alberta

  25-04-2021 22:23 via cbc.ca
  
  Environment Canada has ended a snowfall warning that would have affected multiple regions in southern Alberta.
  
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• Snowfall warning for parts of southern Alberta predicts up to 40 cms of snow

  25-04-2021 22:23 via cbc.ca
  
  Areas to the south and west of Calgary could get up to 40 cm of snowfall by evening, according to Environment Canada.
  
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• Reservation pilot to launch for Johnston Canyon and Lake Louise buses this summer

  25-04-2021 22:16 via cbc.ca
  
  Two popular Roam Public Transit bus routes in Banff National Park are moving to a reservation system this summer.
  
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• Calgary Zoo's oldest stone dinosaur getting patched up

  25-04-2021 21:52 via cbc.ca
  
  The dinosaur statue is the last remaining of 56 that were in the original Natural History Park at the Calgary Zoo.
  
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• FARKAS: Calgary City Hall must let Dairy Queen owners rebuild - Western Standard

  25-04-2021 21:21 via westernstandardonline.com
  
  FARKAS: Calgary City Hall must let Dairy Queen owners rebuild  Western Standard
  
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• Calgary companies seeking to win billion-dollar Canadian military bid for drone procurement - Calgary Herald

  25-04-2021 21:09 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Calgary companies seeking to win billion-dollar Canadian military bid for drone procurement  Calgary Herald
  
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• Man charged, victim identified in Lloydminster homicide: Alberta RCMP

  25-04-2021 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police identified the victim on Saturday as Daxon Levi Hornick-Schmidt, 24, of Lloydminster. Mounties arrested Lance Dwayne Littlewolfe, 35, of North Battleford, Sask.
  
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• Scotland's Mouat defeats Canada's Gushue to win Players' Championship

  25-04-2021 20:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Kerri Einarson never trailed in a 5-2 victory over Rachel Homan in an all-Canadian women's final at the Princess Auto Players' Championship on Sunday in Calgary.
  
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• Einarson beats Homan to win Players' Championship in Calgary

  25-04-2021 20:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Kerri Einarson never trailed in a 5-2 victory over Rachel Homan in an all-Canadian women's final at the Princess Auto Players' Championship on Sunday in Calgary.
  
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• Canada's Brad Gushue falls to Scotland's Bruce Mouat in Players' Championship final

  25-04-2021 20:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Kerri Einarson never trailed in a 5-2 victory over Rachel Homan in an all-Canadian women's final at the Princess Auto Players' Championship on Sunday in Calgary.
  
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• University students struggle with high tuition, student loans and no jobs in ongoing pandemic - Calgary Herald

  25-04-2021 20:20 via calgaryherald.com
  
  University students struggle with high tuition, student loans and no jobs in ongoing pandemic  Calgary Herald
  
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• Shortage of bikes in Calgary contributes to rise in theft - 660 News

  25-04-2021 18:08 via 660citynews.com
  
  Shortage of bikes in Calgary contributes to rise in theft  660 News
  
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• 1 person arrested and charged with murder in Lloydminster death

  25-04-2021 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lance Dwayne Littlewolfe, 35, was arrested in North Battleford Friday and charged with second degree murder in the death of Daxon Levi Hornick-Schmidt, 24.
  
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• City of Calgary launches 2021 Community Cleanup program | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  25-04-2021 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Calgary launches 2021 Community Cleanup program | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.ca
  
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• City of Calgary launches 2021 Community Cleanup program

  25-04-2021 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Every year the City of Calgary partners with community associations to host community cleanups so citizens can dispose of unwanted items and waste. Barb Doyscher joins Global News Calgary with details.
  
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• Citizen Science: Take part in the 2021 City Nature Challenge

  25-04-2021 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Take pictures or recordings of the world around you and share them in the name of citizen science. Matt Wallace with City Nature Challenge Calgary joins Global News Calgary to explain how you can participate in this global competition.
  
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• Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Sunday, April 25

  25-04-2021 16:42 via cbc.ca
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw is urging Albertans to follow public health measures including avoiding indoor gatherings, keeping distanced and wearing a mask.
  
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• Steps for Life event aims to raise awareness about workplace fatalities

  25-04-2021 16:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ashling Boyd with Steps for Life joins Global News Calgary to discuss this year’s virtual event happening May 2 and the National Day of Mourning on April 28.
  
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• As one of Alberta's COVID-19 hotspots, Banff calls for community-targeted immunization

  25-04-2021 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The town of Banff has a footprint of just four square kilometres — and with the second-highest active COVID-19 case rate in Alberta, the pandemic is having an outsize impact on the mountain community.
  
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• On The Road with Mike Drew: One photogenic morning - Calgary Sun

  25-04-2021 13:03 via calgarysun.com
  
  On The Road with Mike Drew: One photogenic morning  Calgary Sun
  
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• What is a hate crime? Lawyers across Canada define the term

  25-04-2021 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  With an increase of racist attacks aimed at Asian Canadians during the pandemic many are left to wonder what recourse there is when it comes to Canada’s justice system. 
  
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• 'Where are all the Black people?': The racial divide in Prairie Christian churches

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  “We have created community for so long along racialized lines that we don't know how to do anything else,” says Calgary-based pastor and author Rohadi Nagassar.
  
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• What these 10 graphics say about Black people on the Prairies

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Here are 10 graphics that illustrate where Black people on the Prairies live, how long they’ve been here, where they were born, the languages they speak and the religions they practice.
  
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• The whitewashing of Prairie history: If we don't know our past, we can't understand our present

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  I grew up a young Black girl in Olds, Alta., without ever hearing the name Amber Valley. How does history like this go missing?
  
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• Not so different: Embracing Black and Indigenous spiritualities

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  My African and Indigenous Elders have instilled an honour for Creation in all her forms. Knowledge from both cultures weaves together seamlessly in my life.
  
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• Lulu Anderson: The history and present of Black civil rights in Alberta

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Although Lulu Anderson is a very early example of Black activism in Canada, her case is much less known than some others.
  
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• Looking back to look forward: Resources exploring Black Prairie experiences

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A list of articles, films, books and more that chronicle everything from 19th-century Black literary works to 21st-century Black collective action.
  
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• Identity on a plate: Caterer embraces her Anishinaabe-Jamaican roots through food

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Melissa Brown is an Ojibway-Jamaican woman who fell in love with cooking at the age of four. Now the small business owner blends the two cultures into a unique cooking style and is giving customers a taste of something new.
  
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• How 2 young Black men bonded over their shared experiences in small-town Alberta

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Baptist Abushaka and David Bowers grew up in separate towns, but shared the same experience.
  
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• Harlem on the Prairies: How Blackness is harmfully used as shorthand

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism.
  
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• Designing while Black: Exploring the evolution of Black Prairie design aesthetic

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Why is it so hard to see Black braininess? Or the Black designing mind?
  
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• Black activists across the Prairies are calling for defunding of police. Is anyone in power listening?

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Police services and politicians in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta have said they were listening, but advocates from Winnipeg to Calgary say change has been minimal at best.
  
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• Arrival: An ode to Black Prairie women by award-winning poet, writer and performer Titilope Sonuga

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It is the women, arriving even now in Edmonton and Saskatoon, in Calgary, Winnipeg and Regina, who touch their hands to the prairie dust and ask first of the land: what may I offer? Who ask first of the people: where may I flourish?
  
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• 6 Black Prairie trailblazers who broke barriers

  25-04-2021 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  These Black Prairie "firsts" sit among the leaders that have shattered glass ceilings in their respective professions.
  
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• Mouat, Homan on track again to earn grand-slam titles in Calgary curling bubble - Calgary Sun

  25-04-2021 07:20 via calgarysun.com
  
  Mouat, Homan on track again to earn grand-slam titles in Calgary curling bubble  Calgary Sun
  
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• Johnny Gaudreau scores twice for Calgary Flames in 5-2 win over Montreal Canadiens - Coast Reporter

  25-04-2021 05:00 via coastreporter.net
  
  Johnny Gaudreau scores twice for Calgary Flames in 5-2 win over Montreal Canadiens  Coast Reporter
  
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• Johnny Gaudreau scores twice in Flames' win over Canadiens

  25-04-2021 04:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Johnny Gaudreau scored twice for the Calgary Flames in a 5-2 win Saturday over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
  
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• Gaudreau scores twice in Flames' win over Canadiens

  25-04-2021 04:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Johnny Gaudreau scored twice for the Calgary Flames in a 5-2 win Saturday over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
  
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• Flames prospect Pelletier has added motivation for QMJHL playoff push - Calgary Sun

  25-04-2021 03:54 via calgarysun.com
  
  Flames prospect Pelletier has added motivation for QMJHL playoff push  Calgary Sun
  
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• Award-winning Calgary playwright Sharon Pollock dead at 85: ‘A titan of talent, personality and spirit’

  25-04-2021 03:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Calgary theatre community is mourning the loss of award-winning playwright, Sharon Pollock.
  
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• Award-winning Calgary playwright Sharon Pollock dead at 85

  25-04-2021 02:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Calgary theatre community is mourning the loss of award-winning playwright Sharon Pollock. As Jackie Wilson reports, the 85-year-old was known as a “titan of talent, personality and spirit.”
  
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• Downtown Calgary stabbing sends man to hospital in critical condition - Calgary Herald

  25-04-2021 02:16 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Downtown Calgary stabbing sends man to hospital in critical condition  Calgary Herald
  
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• COVID-19 Update: 1,592 new cases; 5 deaths reported Saturday | Albertans seeking COVID tests left waiting for days amid backlog - Calgary Herald

  25-04-2021 01:39 via calgaryherald.com
  
  COVID-19 Update: 1,592 new cases; 5 deaths reported Saturday | Albertans seeking COVID tests left waiting for days amid backlog  Calgary Herald
  
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• Alberta schools conference offers parents chance to address COVID-19 concerns

  25-04-2021 01:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The annual general meeting will be held Sunday, where members will vote on resolutions put forward at the conference that could then become advocacy policies.
  
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• ‘We need to pull out all the stops,’ doctor says as Alberta reports 1,592 COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths Saturday

  25-04-2021 01:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's active variant case total is 11,999, which is 60.9 per cent of all active cases.
  
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• Calgary couple loses wedding hotel reservation to curling event - Global News

  25-04-2021 01:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary couple loses wedding hotel reservation to curling event  Global News
  
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