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• Do AI data centres have a PR problem? A look inside a ‘sustainable’ high-tech facility

  02-12-2025 13:00 via cbc.ca
  As demand for artificial intelligence has soared with the evolution of generative AI, so has the federal government and Alberta’s interest in capitalizing on the AI boom by building data centres like CAL-2. But there’s a disconnect between the province and industry’s ambitions, and ordinary Albertans who are hesitant to agree to data centres without understanding what they’re getting into.
  
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• Small Alberta business owner caught up in a Trump tariff nightmare

  19-12-2025 02:55 via globalnews.ca
  'Like pulling hen's teeth': That's how one Alberta small business owner describes her struggle to get answers about a big tariff bill after a recent sale to an American customer.
  
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• Man shot by Calgary police now facing charges

  19-12-2025 02:40 via cbc.ca
  A 23-year-old man has been charged in relation to an incident at the Dalhousie LRT Station on Tuesday that resulted in a Calgary police officer shooting him.
  
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• Calgary police seek to identify potential arson suspect

  19-12-2025 01:34 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators with Calgary police are asking for help in identifying a suspect in an on-going arson investigation at Salt and Brick, a restaurant located in the Beltline.
  
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• Judge sides with province, removes injunction pausing ban on Alberta youth receiving gender-affirming care

  19-12-2025 01:17 via cbc.ca
  A judge ruled Thursday to remove an injunction in place since the summer against Alberta's law prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.
  
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• Explosion leaves Taber, Alta., without hockey rink

  19-12-2025 01:17 via cbc.ca
  Investigators are still trying to find what caused the blast after it turned several walls in the town's community centre to rubble.
  
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• High winds, snow recorded after intense Alberta Clipper sweeps across province

  19-12-2025 00:12 via globalnews.ca
  Central Alberta was mostly impacted by heavy snow while southern Alberta saw strong winds and blizzard-like conditions when a fast-moving low-pressure system swept through.
  
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• 1 dead after collision between pickup truck and semi on Barlow Trail

  19-12-2025 00:03 via cbc.ca
  One man is dead after a collision between a pickup truck and a semi-truck in the city's southeast Wednesday night, making it the 37th fatal collision this year, according to police.
  
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• Alberta increases citizen initiative petition fee from $500 to $25,000

  18-12-2025 23:47 via cbc.ca
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is hiking the cost to apply for a citizen-initiated referendum by 5,000 per cent, saying it's about making sure applicants are serious.
  
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• Hockey, table tennis to go ahead in Alberta after figure skating opts out over trans law

  18-12-2025 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  Hockey Canada and Table Tennis Canada say their events in Alberta will go ahead despite the province's law banning transgender athletes from female amateur sports.
  
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• Edmonton man accused of sexual assault, luring teen girls online faces more charges

  18-12-2025 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  An ongoing investigation into an Edmonton man for luring, child sexual abuse and exploitation material-related offences has resulted in 17 more charges being laid.
  
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• How Skate Canada pushed for inclusion in the years leading up to stance on Alberta's transgender policy

  18-12-2025 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Skate Canada’s move as the first sports federation to announce it will no longer hold major events in Alberta due to the province’s legislation on transgender people's participation in sports did not come as a surprise to some who know the organization well. 
  
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• Hockey, speedskating, curling, boxing to go ahead in Alberta after figure skating out over trans law

  18-12-2025 22:20 via cbc.ca
  A number of Canadian sports organizations say they will not follow Skate Canada’s boycott of national and international-level events in Alberta following the passage of a law banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.
  
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• Shooting deaths of 2 young men at southeast Edmonton home ruled double homicide

  18-12-2025 22:03 via globalnews.ca
  Two men in their 20s were shot dead at home in the Silver Berry neighbourhood in what Edmonton police detectives believe was a targeted double homicide.
  
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• 1 person killed as police respond to hundreds of crashes on Calgary roads

  18-12-2025 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  Calgary police say one person was killed Wednesday night in a collision involvingan SUV and a semi truck at the intersection of Barlow Trail and 26th Street southeast.
  
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• Dr. Vivien Suttorp named Alberta’s permanent chief medical officer of health

  18-12-2025 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Vivien Suttorp, a longtime medical officer in southern Alberta, is now the province's CMOH — the first person in three years appointed to the role on a permanent basis.
  
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• Inmate charged with manslaughter in death of another prisoner at Drumheller Institution

  18-12-2025 20:40 via cbc.ca
  Police have charged an Alberta prison inmate with manslaughter in connection with the death of a 55-year-old man who was serving time at the Drumheller Institution east of Calgary.
  
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• Alberta ups referendum petition fees to $25K — a 5,000% hike to discourage ‘frivolous applications’

  18-12-2025 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Danielle Smith's government is hiking the cost to apply for a citizen-initiated referendum from $500 to $25,000, saying it's about making sure applicants are serious.
  
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• Redwood Meadows, Alta. fire department devastated by blaze that destroyed 3 trucks

  18-12-2025 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  The small community of Redwood Meadows, located about 25 minutes west of Calgary, has lost three fire trucks in a devastating blaze that broke out Wednesday evening.
  
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• ‘So vulnerable’: Youth court pilot project aims to stabilize, divert Indigenous kids from justice system

  18-12-2025 19:46 via cbc.ca
  An Indigenous youth pilot project is underway in Calgary involving kids facing criminal charges. If all goes according to plan, it will become a weekly specialized therapeutic court for family and youth, where kids address long-term issues driving addictions and criminal behaviour.
  
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• Alberta appoints new chief medical health officer, first in role permanently since 2022

  18-12-2025 19:40 via cbc.ca
  Dr. Vivien Suttorp, who has been the lead medical health officer for the province's South Zone, has been appointed to the role, the first to take on the job on a permanent basis since Dr. Deena Hinshaw was ousted in 2022.
  
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• Fire station at Redwood Meadows west of Calgary damaged by fire

  18-12-2025 15:13 via cbc.ca
  The Redwood Meadows fire station was badly damaged by a fire on Wednesday evening.
  
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• WATCH LIVE | Blitz Day for the Calgary Food Bank

  18-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  CBC Calgary is holding its annual Make the Season Kind Blitz Day to raise money for the Calgary Food Bank. This marks the 40th year of the campaign, which the food bank says has raised close to $45 million.
  
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• Alberta population keeps growing, bucking national trend in Q3

  18-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Alberta’s population bucked the trend that almost every other Canadian province and territory experienced last quarter, Statistics Canada population estimates suggest.
  
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• After years of challenging growth, Calgary public schools grew by 1 student last year

  18-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  A Calgary Board of Education superintendent calls the slower growth rate "a gift" for its schools after years of challenging population growth. The district has 15 new schools in the works.
  
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• Calgary man waiting for treatment not yet offered at city's new cancer centre

  18-12-2025 13:00 via cbc.ca
  A Calgary man says he’s facing cancer treatment delays because the specialized therapy he needs is not yet being offered at the city's new cancer centre, which opened in 2024.
  
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• 'Extensive damage' to B.C.'s Highway 3 between Hope and Princeton, as latest storm cuts power

  17-12-2025 22:28 via cbc.ca
  The B.C. government says it's uncertain when a stretch of a major highway between Hope and Princeton will reopen after last week's atmospheric river rainfall event destroyed and damaged culverts and washed away a portion of roadway. Meanwhile, the power is out for thousands and the Fernie wastewater system is close to capacity as the impact of stormy weather continues to be felt.
  
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• 'Safe travel impossible' in much of south central Alberta, RCMP says

  17-12-2025 20:29 via cbc.ca
  A winter storm that moved across much of Alberta on Wednesday is bringing blowing snow and extreme wind gusts, prompting Environment Canada to issue a yellow-level winter storm warning.
  
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• 'Safe travel impossible' in much of south central Alberta on Wednesday, RCMP says

  17-12-2025 20:29 via cbc.ca
  Heavy, blowing snow created whiteout conditions, leading to multiple collisions in Calgary and beyond.
  
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• Calgary airport pauses flights, RCMP warns people to stay off all roads as major storm hits Alberta

  17-12-2025 20:29 via cbc.ca
  A winter storm that moved across much of Alberta on Wednesday is bringing blowing snow and extreme wind gusts, prompting Environment Canada to issue a yellow-level winter storm warning.
  
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