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• Paralyzed Calgary man cycles circumference of the earth on specialized stationary bike - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 23:25 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Paralyzed Calgary man cycles circumference of the earth on specialized stationary bike  Calgary Herald
  
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• Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Saturday, Feb. 5

  05-02-2022 22:06 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta must prepare to adopt an endemic approach to managing COVID-19, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, said Thursday.
  
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• Flames prospect Pelletier producing at impressive clip in first AHL season - Calgary Sun

  05-02-2022 22:04 via calgarysun.com
  
  Flames prospect Pelletier producing at impressive clip in first AHL season  Calgary Sun
  
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• Police in Alberta’s major cities warn of traffic tie-ups as convoys roll through

  05-02-2022 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Trucker convoys tied up traffic in Alberta's major cities on Saturday.
  
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• Edmonton braces for another convoy expected to arrive Saturday to support protesters in Ottawa

  05-02-2022 20:11 via cbc.ca
  
  The city of Edmonton is bracing for another anti-vaccine-mandate convoy expected to arrive at the Alberta Legislature early Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Another convoy descends on Edmonton to show local support for protesters in Ottawa

  05-02-2022 20:11 via cbc.ca
  
  Blaring truck horns echo throughout downtown Edmonton for a second consecutive weekend, as at least 1,000 Albertans converge to support an anti-vaccine-mandate convoy in Ottawa.
  
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• Calgary Flames 2021-22 mid-season report cards: goalies and defenders - Flames Nation

  05-02-2022 20:00 via flamesnation.ca
  Calgary Flames 2021-22 mid-season report cards: goalies and defenders  Flames Nation
  
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• Gateway Association - Calgary wants to break down disability-based job barriers for youth - LiveWire Calgary

  05-02-2022 19:29 via livewirecalgary.com
  
  Gateway Association - Calgary wants to break down disability-based job barriers for youth  LiveWire Calgary
  
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• Teenager sustains superficial stab wound to the head during Friday night robbery - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 19:23 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Teenager sustains superficial stab wound to the head during Friday night robbery  Calgary Herald
  
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• RCMP says open investigations underway into ongoing Coutts border protest

  05-02-2022 19:08 via cbc.ca
  
  An ongoing protest impeding travel to the United States border enters Day 8, while police anticipate several other demonstrations to take place around Alberta Saturday — all in solidarity with anti-vaccine-mandate protesters in Ottawa.
  
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• Coutts, Alta., border demonstration enters Day 8 amid other planned Alberta protests

  05-02-2022 19:08 via cbc.ca
  
  An ongoing protest impeding travel to the United States border enters Day 8, while police anticipate several other demonstrations to take place around Alberta Saturday — all in solidarity with anti-vaccine-mandate protesters in Ottawa.
  
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• Calgary police looking for man believed to be defrauding seniors - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 18:18 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Calgary police looking for man believed to be defrauding seniors  Calgary Herald
  
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• Calgary police seek suspect in scam targeting seniors

  05-02-2022 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary police are asking the public for help identifying a suspected wanted in a scam targeting local seniors.
  
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• Alberta judge grants mother right to vaccinate immunocompromised son over father's objections

  05-02-2022 15:30 via cbc.ca
  
  A mother was granted control of all medical decisions for her immunocompromised child after the boy’s father refused to allow the nine-year-old to be vaccinated against COVID-19. 
  
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• What is school like in Alberta in 2022?

  05-02-2022 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Photographer Ose Irete spends a day at Ecole Percy Pegler School, where teachers are taking lessons from the pandemic and online learning.
  
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• Online conference features international delegates lobbying to make Calgary, Edmonton 'music cities' - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 14:56 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Online conference features international delegates lobbying to make Calgary, Edmonton 'music cities'  Calgary Herald
  
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• Online Pan-African history course offered to strengthen Black identities

  05-02-2022 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Black History Month can often revolve around themes of victimization. A Calgary organization is determined to set that narrative straight. 
  
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• Letters, Feb. 5: 'Who don't you declare a hate emergency?' - Calgary Sun

  05-02-2022 13:09 via calgarysun.com
  
  Letters, Feb. 5: 'Who don't you declare a hate emergency?'  Calgary Sun
  
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• Guest Opinion: The Calgary Flames arena’s demise good for taxpayers - Calgary Sun

  05-02-2022 13:09 via calgarysun.com
  
  Guest Opinion: The Calgary Flames arena’s demise good for taxpayers  Calgary Sun
  
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• Varcoe: Jobs grow in Alberta, but long-term unemployment hangs over province - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 13:08 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Varcoe: Jobs grow in Alberta, but long-term unemployment hangs over province  Calgary Herald
  
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• Olympic wake-up call: Canada earns 1st medals of Beijing 2022

  05-02-2022 12:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Isabelle Weidemann won Canada's first medal of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games on Saturday, winning the bronze in the women's 3,000-metre long track. Team Canada teammate Mikaël Kingsbury followed that up with a silver medal in the men's moguls final.
  
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• Canada is shifting to 'living with the virus' — for better or worse

  05-02-2022 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada’s pandemic response is rapidly shifting towards “learning to live with the virus” — where COVID-19 is eventually treated like other seasonal illnesses, surveillance is massively scaled back and public health measures are widely lifted.
  
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• Kyrou earns fastest skater title at NHL All-Star skills competition

  05-02-2022 06:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  St. Louis' Jordan Kyrou was the fastest skater event during an NHL All-Star skills competition with a distinct Vegas flavour Friday night.
  
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• Davies, Sinclair among 5 Canadians up for CONCACAF Player of the Year Award

  05-02-2022 05:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadians Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Jessie Fleming, Stephanie Labbe and Christine Sinclair are up for CONCACAF Player of the Year.
  
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• Anti-vaccine protesters bully, taunt health-care workers outside Sheldon Chumir: unions - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 04:55 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Anti-vaccine protesters bully, taunt health-care workers outside Sheldon Chumir: unions  Calgary Herald
  
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• Deaths, ICU admissions rise as Alberta expected to lift restrictions next week - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 03:36 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Deaths, ICU admissions rise as Alberta expected to lift restrictions next week  Calgary Herald
  
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• Calgary boy battling rare disease brings in big money for Alberta Children’s Hospital fundraiser - Global News

  05-02-2022 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary boy battling rare disease brings in big money for Alberta Children’s Hospital fundraiser  Global News
  
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• Calgary boy battling rare disease brings in big money for Alberta Children’s Hospital fundraiser

  05-02-2022 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  An ambitious fundraising goal was met with overwhelming response for a boy who hasn't been able to leave his house since May 2021.
  
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• Calgary project turns kids into urban planners to improve school commutes - CBC.ca

  05-02-2022 03:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Calgary project turns kids into urban planners to improve school commutes  CBC.ca
  
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• Calgary project turns kids into urban planners to improve school commutes

  05-02-2022 03:19 via cbc.ca
  
  School drop-off can be stressful — but what if kids dictated how the car lineup works, or where crosswalks and other traffic calming measures are put around school grounds? 
  
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• Planning to garden this spring? You can start preparing now, say Calgary experts - CBC.ca

  05-02-2022 03:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Planning to garden this spring? You can start preparing now, say Calgary experts  CBC.ca
  
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• Planning to garden this spring? You can start preparing now, say Calgary experts

  05-02-2022 03:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Balmy daytime temperatures above freezing are expected this weekend. Even if they don't last, gardeners can "think spring" and start preparing for the growing season.
  
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• Calgarians mark opening of 2022 Beijing Games with celebration, protest

  05-02-2022 03:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Beijing Winter Olympics are an opportunity to reach the world stage -- in sport or in protest of China's human rights record.
  
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• Canadian bobsledder Taylor Austin feeling support from Lethbridge at Beijing Olympics

  05-02-2022 02:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge's Taylor Austin is set to make his Olympic debut this month, representing Canada on the bobsleigh track after more than a decade of chasing the dream. 
  
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• Majority of Albertans disillusioned with federal government: Angus Reid poll

  05-02-2022 02:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The findings reflect a national trend of disengagement and frustration with the state of Canadian democracy, which may have implications for the provincial election next year.
  
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• Security ramps up at Beltline urgent care centre ahead of Saturday protest, unions say

  05-02-2022 02:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Unions representing health-care workers say they're working with Alberta Health Services to increase security measures at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in Calgary, saying centre workers are being harassed by people protesting pandemic restrictions.
  
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• Security ramps up at Beltline hospital ahead of Saturday protest, unions say

  05-02-2022 02:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Unions representing health-care workers say they're working with Alberta Health Services to increase security measures at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in Calgary, saying hospital workers are being harassed by people protesting pandemic restrictions.
  
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• NDP MLAs quit legislative committee tasked with studying opioid safe supply programs

  05-02-2022 02:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta NDP MLAs are quitting a legislative committee struck to examine whether safe supply programs could reduce drug poisoning deaths in Alberta.
  
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• COVID-19: Alberta politicians react to possibility of premier blocking health policies

  05-02-2022 02:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney has changed his tune on whether municipalities can create their own public health restrictions and is now floating the idea of blocking them from doing so.
  
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• Roughnecks roll into key stretch of NLL season without excuses in mind - Calgary Sun

  05-02-2022 02:08 via calgarysun.com
  
  Roughnecks roll into key stretch of NLL season without excuses in mind  Calgary Sun
  
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• Global News Hour at 6 Calgary: Feb. 4 | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  05-02-2022 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global News Hour at 6 Calgary: Feb. 4 | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Homes by Avi helps Jack James students build careers - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 01:56 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Homes by Avi helps Jack James students build careers  Calgary Herald
  
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• Calgary businesses react to potential lifting of Restrictions Exemption Program | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  05-02-2022 01:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary businesses react to potential lifting of Restrictions Exemption Program | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.ca
  
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• COVID-19 Update: Alberta reports 26 additional deaths | GoFundMe pulls plug for convoy protesters campaign | Vote to lift vaccine mandate coming next week: Kenney - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 01:39 via calgaryherald.com
  
  COVID-19 Update: Alberta reports 26 additional deaths | GoFundMe pulls plug for convoy protesters campaign | Vote to lift vaccine mandate coming next week: Kenney  Calgary Herald
  
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• Calgary's Indigenous and Sikh communities partner to overcoming vaccine hesitancy | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  05-02-2022 01:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary's Indigenous and Sikh communities partner to overcoming vaccine hesitancy | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Airdrie murder suspect to learn fate later this month - Calgary Herald

  05-02-2022 01:00 via calgaryherald.com
  
  Airdrie murder suspect to learn fate later this month  Calgary Herald
  
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• Alberta marks 26 COVID-19 deaths reported Friday; AHS to allow visitors to bring N95s

  05-02-2022 00:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Nearly 23 months into the pandemic, Alberta Health Services is now allowing visitors to AHS sites to wear their own clean KN95 or N95 masks.
  
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• Partnership between Indigenous and Sikh communities in Calgary tackles COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy - Globalnews.ca

  05-02-2022 00:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Partnership between Indigenous and Sikh communities in Calgary tackles COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Partnership between Indigenous and Sikh communities in Calgary tackles COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

  05-02-2022 00:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Community leaders say a Calgary collaboration that solved a huge vaccine hesitancy problem should serve as a model for others across the country.
  
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• Ottawa files court brief supporting Enbridge in Line 5 dispute with Michigan

  05-02-2022 00:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ottawa is once again urging a Michigan judge to keep Line 5 operating while it works with the U.S. on negotiating an end to the impasse over the cross-border pipeline.
  
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