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• Police watchdog investigates after northern Alberta Taser incident sends man to hospital

  30-03-2020 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating after police used a Taser on a 20-year-old man immediately following his arrest in northern Alberta last week, sending him to hospital.
  
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• ASIRT investigating after Tasered man, 20, goes into 'medical distress'

  30-03-2020 23:47 via cbc.ca
  
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been directed to investigate circumstances surrounding the arrest of a 20-year-old man from the Sucker Creek First Nation reserve.
  
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• Alberta’s Tanner Boser waits for UFC to call again after COVID-19

  30-03-2020 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  His latest fight postponed because of the UFC's inability to find a place to stage it due to COVID-19, Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser is chilling in his condo with a couple of 40-pound dumbbells, a medicine ball and skipping rope.
  
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• COVID-19 costs to City of Edmonton likely between $27M and $112M: report

  30-03-2020 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Through a lack of revenue and increased expenses, the city could be out $112.3 million if the current situation lasts until mid-September.
  
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• AHS partners with biotechnology company to create rapid testing for COVID-19

  30-03-2020 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  The rapid test will help Alberta Health Services conduct more efficient tests in remote and rural communities across the province.
  
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• Ontario woman climbs Mount Everest, now stranded in Nepal due to coronavirus pandemic

  30-03-2020 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  There is a Facebook group indicating at least 144 Canadians are currently stuck in Nepal.
  
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• Coronavirus: CFL and Edmonton Eskimos join rest of paused sports world - Global News

  30-03-2020 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Coronavirus: CFL and Edmonton Eskimos join rest of paused sports world  Global News
  
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• Coronavirus: CFL and Edmonton Eskimos join rest of paused sports world

  30-03-2020 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian Football League announced Monday that training camps for the 2020 CFL season have been postponed indefinitely.
  
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• B.C. doctor warns of deadly ‘double whammy’ if coronavirus persists into wildfire season

  30-03-2020 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  "There will be more people coming into the emergency room, more people coming into the intensive care unit, more people requiring mechanical ventilation and probably more people dying," said Dr. Don Sin.
  
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• 'This has been one of the hardest days yet': Alberta registers five more deaths from COVID-19

  30-03-2020 22:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Five people in Alberta died Monday from COVID-19, bringing the total in the province to eight so far.
  
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• Five more deaths in Alberta from COVID-19

  30-03-2020 22:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Five people died Monday from COVID-19, bringing the total in the province to eight so far.
  
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• Alberta Opposition tells education minister to fight for school funding or quit

  30-03-2020 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  NDP education critic Sarah Hoffman says Adriana LaGrange is failing in her core mandate.
  
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• Alberta COVID-19 cases continue to climb with latest update due Monday

  30-03-2020 22:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Public health officials believe one COVID-19 case in every 11 reported in Alberta was transmitted from person to person within the province.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl trying to stay sharp during NHL pause

  30-03-2020 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Before the NHL stopped due to the novel coronavirus, Draisaitl had racked up 110 points in 71 games.
  
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• Alberta Health Services buys rapid testing devices for COVID-19 from Ottawa tech firm

  30-03-2020 22:15 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta Health Services has signed a $9.5-million contract with an Ottawa company developing a handheld rapid-testing device for COVID-19.
  
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• Charges laid after Winnipeg teen allegedly lured to Edmonton man’s home - Global News

  30-03-2020 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Charges laid after Winnipeg teen allegedly lured to Edmonton man’s home  Global News
  
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• Charges laid after Winnipeg teen allegedly lured to Edmonton man’s home

  30-03-2020 22:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  A teenage girl from Winnipeg is back home and an Edmonton man is facing abduction charges after police allege he used the internet to lure her to his Alberta home late last year.
  
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• Thorsby mayor angry over potential COVID-19 exposure in Alberta town

  30-03-2020 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Thorsby mayor Rod Raymond talks about why he wrote a stern letter to his town’s residents, calling out people he said may have spread COVID-19 in the rural Alberta community.
  
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• Two adults, child dead in Prince Albert, Sask. triple homicide

  30-03-2020 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Prince Albert police have not said how the three victims died, but said their deaths are being investigated as homicides.
  
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• Edmonton heavyweight Tanner Boser waits for UFC to call again after COVID-19 - CTV News

  30-03-2020 21:21 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  
  Edmonton heavyweight Tanner Boser waits for UFC to call again after COVID-19  CTV News
  
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• City of Edmonton on wage top-ups for laid off employees

  30-03-2020 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Edmonton interim manager Adam Laughlin said laid off employees will receive wage top ups, up to 75 per cent of their salaries, for 16 weeks for permanent employees and eight weeks for temporary employees.
  
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• City of Edmonton on whether more layoffs will happen

  30-03-2020 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Edmonton interim manager Adam Laughlin says he won’t know whether more layoffs will need to take place until April 15, when a supplementary operating budget adjustment will be presented to city council.
  
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• City of Edmonton on what happens of layoffs last months

  30-03-2020 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Edmonton interim manager Adam Laughlin talks about federal support programs and what happens if lay offs continue for many months.
  
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• Edmonton police seek person of interest in McCauley homicide - CBC.ca

  30-03-2020 20:46 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton police seek person of interest in McCauley homicide  CBC.ca
  
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• Edmonton police seek person of interest in McCauley homicide

  30-03-2020 20:46 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in the shooting death of a 42-year-old man found in a downtown alley earlier this month.
  
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• COVID-19: City, Edmonton Public Library temporarily lay off more than 2,000 staff - Edmonton Journal

  30-03-2020 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  COVID-19: City, Edmonton Public Library temporarily lay off more than 2,000 staff  Edmonton Journal
  
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• ‘What the crap are you thinking?’: Thorsby mayor angry over potential COVID-19 exposure

  30-03-2020 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Thorsby mayor, Rod Raymond, is scolding and calling out "dumb people" for potentially exposing others to COVID-19.
  
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• 489 Edmonton Public Library employees laid off

  30-03-2020 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Edmonton Public Library CEO Pilar Martinez talks about having to temporarily lay off 489 employees, or about 75 per cent of library staff, including management and unionized staff.
  
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• 1,600 City of Edmonton employees laid off due to COVID-19

  30-03-2020 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  An emotional interim city manager Adam Laughlin announces of the 2,000 staff members in the community and recreation branch, 1,600 employees of rec centres and other public places will be laid off on April 14.
  
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• Edmonton lays off over 2,000 staff at city rec centres, public libraries due to COVID-19

  30-03-2020 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Edmonton rec branch and EPL issued more than 2,000 layoff notices to employees Monday morning in the wake of COVID-19.
  
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• 60% of Albertans say they're $200 or less away from not being able to pay their bills amid crisis

  30-03-2020 20:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Six out of 10 Albertans say they're $200 or less away from not being able to pay their monthly bills, an indication of the level of financial shock the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in the province, according to a new survey released Monday by a national personal insolvency firm.
  
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• 630 CHED sports throw from station to home studio

  30-03-2020 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  630 CHED sports announcer Morley Scott is broadcasting from his home studio amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. But 630 CHED Mornings hosts Chelsea Bird and Shaye Ganam are still broadcasting from the station. So what do these sports throws look like when they’re not in the same room?
  
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• Coronavirus: WestJet extends international flight suspensions to May 4

  30-03-2020 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Calgary-based company will offer no flights to the U.S., Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut borders and sent travel demand tumbling.
  
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• Sunterra Market offers AHS workers 25% discount during COVID-19 pandemic

  30-03-2020 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sunterra Market will be offering a 25 per cent discount to Alberta Health Services employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Edmonton interim city manager, library boss to provide COVID-19 update Monday

  30-03-2020 19:46 via cbc.ca
  
  Interim city manager Adam Laughlin along with Pilar Martinez, head of the Edmonton Public Library, will provide an update Monday on the city's response to COVID-19.
  
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• City of Edmonton, public library laying off nearly 2,100 employees

  30-03-2020 19:46 via cbc.ca
  
  The City of Edmonton is laying off 1,600 employees and Edmonton Public Library is laying off nearly 500 others.
  
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• What's still open in Edmonton? New website aims to boost struggling businesses - CTV News

  30-03-2020 19:42 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  
  What's still open in Edmonton? New website aims to boost struggling businesses  CTV News
  
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• Alberta health officials to update province’s COVID-19 situation Monday afternoon

  30-03-2020 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta health officials are set to provide an update Monday afternoon on the COVID-19 situation in the province and ongoing efforts to protect public health.
  
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• Publisher lifts limit on eBooks for libraries in light of novel coronavirus pandemic

  30-03-2020 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Macmillan Publishers lifted the embargo it previously put in place limiting the number of titles for eBooks public libraries could buy.
  
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• COVID-19: City of Edmonton, library to lay off 2,000 workers - CTV News

  30-03-2020 19:19 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  
  COVID-19: City of Edmonton, library to lay off 2,000 workers  CTV News
  
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• Edmonton man keeps 'even keel' during Beijing quarantine, 54 days in isolation - CBC.ca

  30-03-2020 19:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton man keeps 'even keel' during Beijing quarantine, 54 days in isolation  CBC.ca
  
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• Edmonton man keeps 'even keel' during Beijing quarantine, 54 days in isolation

  30-03-2020 19:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Throughout his career, playing minor hockey in 13 countries, Rory Rawlyk has come to expect brushes with disaster. 
  
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• Calgary-based Parkland Fuel cuts $300M from budget to deal with COVID 19 impact

  30-03-2020 18:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parkland Fuel is cutting its 2020 capital spending budget by 52 per cent and trimming executive salaries in response to the uncertain economic impact of the novel coronavirus.
  
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• Exercising in self-isolation? Here are 3 workouts to keep you fit

  30-03-2020 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Physical distancing measures intended to curb the spread of COVID-19 has many gym junkies worried their fitness routines will go into isolation. 
  
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• Oil price falls below $20 US a barrel, its lowest since 2002

  30-03-2020 17:48 via cbc.ca
  
  The benchmark price for a barrel of North American oil dipped below $20 on Monday morning, the first time that's happened in 18 years.
  
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• More than 800 doctors sign letter urging Alberta government to postpone health-care revamp

  30-03-2020 17:39 via cbc.ca
  
  Hundreds of doctors say the Alberta government must put its planned changes to the health-care system on hold as the COVID-19 emergency continues.
  
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• Alberta doctors ask for healthcare changes to be halted amid COVID-19 in open letter to Kenney government

  30-03-2020 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The letter calls for an "abrupt pause" to the proposed healthcare changes to avoid "burdening and negatively impacting" Albertans.
  
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• What you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Monday, March 30

  30-03-2020 17:24 via cbc.ca
  
  While Albertans struggle to access emergency payments from the province and farmers fret over supply change, everyone is waiting to see if measures put in place throughout the province will flatten the curve.
  
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• A look at the search for a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada

  30-03-2020 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Thousands of scientists around the world are working on problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the search for a vaccine against the virus.
  
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• CFL postpones training camps in response to pandemic

  30-03-2020 16:54 via cbc.ca
  
  The CFL has postponed the start of training camps indefinitely in response to the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Full training camps had been scheduled to start May 17.
  
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