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• Alberta data showing up to 3,100 deaths prompts province to increase beds, ventilators

  08-04-2020 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Modelling released Wednesday by the province breaks down when the peak of the virus could come, plans for increasing ICU and acute care beds and making sure the province has enough PPE.
  
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• Alberta reports 3 more deaths, 50 new cases of COVID-19

  08-04-2020 23:49 via cbc.ca
  
  Three more people in Alberta died from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, while the province reported 50 new cases.
  
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• Coronavirus: Could Alberta use smartphone apps to track patients, enforce quarantine?

  08-04-2020 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  After Alberta's premier brought up the possibility of using smartphone apps to enforce quarantine orders, a former privacy commissioner and developer weigh in on balancing privacy and public health.
  
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• Man accused of stealing from University of Alberta Hospital worker vehicles - Global News

  08-04-2020 23:07
  
  Man accused of stealing from University of Alberta Hospital worker vehicles  Global News
  
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• Man accused of stealing from University of Alberta Hospital worker vehicles

  08-04-2020 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said the suspect was behind a rash of break-ins targeting the vehicles of front-line health-care workers, including nurses and respiratory therapists.
  
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• Coronavirus: A closer look at Alberta’s relaunch strategy

  08-04-2020 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney said Alberta's relaunch strategy focuses on gradually boosting the economy while preventing a second wave of COVID-19.
  
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• Alberta landowners and legal experts criticize well cleanup bill

  08-04-2020 21:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  The bill, which passed into law in three days last week, gives a group charged with cleaning up those sites new powers to take over and operate abandoned wells.
  
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• Flair Airlines rehires all laid-off employees and restores wages following federal subsidy

  08-04-2020 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Flair Airlines has made the move to rehire all the employees it previously laid off, restoring it to a "pre-pandemic" level, after the company was assisted by a federal subsidy.
  
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• Edmonton adjusts roads, pedestrian call buttons to promote physical distancing - Global News

  08-04-2020 20:48
  
  Edmonton adjusts roads, pedestrian call buttons to promote physical distancing  Global News
  
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• Edmonton bolsters Capital City Clean Up after influx of tossed gloves and masks - Global News

  08-04-2020 20:47
  
  Edmonton bolsters Capital City Clean Up after influx of tossed gloves and masks  Global News
  
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• Road lanes closing to give walkers, cyclists more room to keep their distance

  08-04-2020 20:44 via cbc.ca
  
  Two stretches of road atop Edmonton's river valley will block off lanes to vehicles to give more space for walkers, joggers and cyclists seeking fresh air.
  
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• Edmonton bolsters Capital City Clean Up after influx of tossed gloves and masks

  08-04-2020 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Numerous complaints about glove and mask litter has prompted the City of Edmonton to help grocery stores deal with the problem.
  
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• Edmonton adjusts roads, pedestrian call buttons to promote physical distancing

  08-04-2020 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Edmonton also announced further measures to promote physical distancing on city buses.
  
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• Play as the release valve to the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘it provides the emotional release we need’

  08-04-2020 20:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kids are coping with a great deal of change in a short period of time, but child and adolescent development counsellor Deborah MacNamara says there's a simple salve to the upheaval.
  
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• Alberta to release 'extensive' modelling data on COVID-19

  08-04-2020 20:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney and health officials will release extensive modelling data on Wednesday projecting the potential health impacts of COVID-19 in Alberta.
  
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• Alberta COVID-19 hospitalizations will peak in late May, province says

  08-04-2020 20:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney and health officials are releasing extensive modelling data on Wednesday projecting the potential health impacts of COVID-19 in Alberta.
  
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• 4 things not to do while working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic

  08-04-2020 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Organizational psychologist Laura Hambley joined Global News Morning Calgary on Wednesday to discuss the things you should avoid doing while working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak.
  
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• Coronavirus: Alberta Ghostbusters create medical equipment for health-care professionals

  08-04-2020 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Members of the Alberta Ghostbusters are putting their prop-making skills to use amid the COVID-10 pandemic, by creating medical equipment for health-care professionals.
  
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• Alberta officials to provide full COVID-19 modelling data, daily update Wednesday afternoon

  08-04-2020 18:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Wednesday afternoon, Premier Jason Kenney is expected to release the full extensive modelling data projecting the potential health impacts of COVID-19 in Alberta.
  
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• Canadians bite back at loneliness of isolation by howling at the moon

  08-04-2020 18:37 via cbc.ca
  
  Every night as the full moon crests over the river valley,  Emma-Kate Larochelle takes a few steps outside her front door and screeches into the sky.
  
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• COVID-19 plan key part of Keystone XL construction acceleration, says CEO

  08-04-2020 18:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  TC Energy Corp. says it is fine-tuning its plan for construction, while also guarding against the spread of COVID-19.
  
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• Alberta action plan: Better testing, screening and tracking in COVID-19 'relaunch strategy'

  08-04-2020 17:41 via cbc.ca
  
  Mass testing and more masks, stepped-up screening of international arrivals to Alberta and tracking the movements of quarantined individuals are all planned under a relaunch strategy announced Tuesday night by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney.
  
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• The pandemic pivot: Edmonton businesses retool to join COVID-19 fight

  08-04-2020 17:15 via cbc.ca
  
  Demand for many products might be down these days, but several Edmonton companies are rushing to change their production lines — and bottom lines — to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Alberta liquor, cannabis sales remain steady during coronavirus pandemic

  08-04-2020 16:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis says it hasn't seen much of a change in wholesale liquor or cannabis orders compared to previous years despite the new coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• John Humphrey Centre teams with food bank to deliver to Edmontonians in need

  08-04-2020 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A team of volunteers is delivering hampers to Edmonton people in need who can’t get to food bank depots themselves, but the demand is overwhelming.
  
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• Edmonton weather for Wednesday, April 8 - CTV News

  08-04-2020 15:06
  
  Edmonton weather for Wednesday, April 8  CTV News
  
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• OPINION | Kenney delivers a stark but necessary message to Albertans

  08-04-2020 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney’s address to Albertans Tuesday night was perhaps the most sombre and downright bleak speech ever delivered by an Alberta premier.
  
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• Coronavirus: Alberta government proposes amendments to emergency act

  08-04-2020 14:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  The proposed amendments would allow local states of emergency to be extended up to 90 days, according to the Alberta government.
  
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• Alberta government introduces human-trafficking bill

  08-04-2020 14:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Alberta government introduced a new bill Tuesday that it says will empower survivors of human trafficking.
  
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• Embassy in Peru praised for organizing buses, planes and a trip home for stuck Canadians

  08-04-2020 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Michael Melymick and his girlfriend were locked down in Peru for almost thee weeks, but thanks to help from the Canadian embassy, they're now safe back home in Edmonton.
  
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• Approval of prime minister, premiers soars amid coronavirus response: Ipsos poll

  08-04-2020 13:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  The poll found 74 per cent of Canadians back the prime minister's handling of the crisis, while a combined 84 per cent support their own premiers' jobs.
  
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• Controversial COVID-19 treatment touted by Trump to be tested in Alberta

  08-04-2020 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Albertans who have been exposed to coronavirus are being asked to join a clinical trial into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-viral drug that’s been used for decades to treat malaria and some auto-immune diseases.
  
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• Albertans asked to join study that could help treat and prevent COVID-19

  08-04-2020 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Albertans who have been exposed to the coronavirus are being asked to join a clinical trial into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-viral drug that’s been used for decades to treat malaria and some auto-immune diseases.
  
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• Why Alberta's COVID-19 testing numbers have been down lately — and are set to pick back up

  08-04-2020 08:01 via cbc.ca
  
  After peaking above 4,000 tests per day at one point, we've been completing only about 900 per day, on average, for the past three days.
  
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• Alberta announces more aggressive COVID-19 testing measures

  08-04-2020 07:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney said the province is aiming to test 20,000 Albertans per day in an effort to trace community-spread cases and find those who have recovered. As Michael King reports, one immunologist says more testing could prevent a second wave of the virus.
  
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• Edmonton hospital staff fighting COVID-19 with ‘renewed commitment and renewed energy’: doctor - Global News

  08-04-2020 06:08
  
  Edmonton hospital staff fighting COVID-19 with ‘renewed commitment and renewed energy’: doctor  Global News
  
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• Edmonton hospital staff fighting COVID-19 with ‘renewed commitment and renewed energy’: doctor

  08-04-2020 06:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Edmonton doctor explains how he and other health-care professionals at the hospital he works at are approaching the COVID-19 crisis.
  
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• Watch: N95 respirator masks explained - Edmonton Journal

  08-04-2020 04:40
  
  Watch: N95 respirator masks explained  Edmonton Journal
  
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• JONES: Edmonton Oilers stepping up for charity in local COVID-19 relief effort - Edmonton Sun

  08-04-2020 03:36
  
  JONES: Edmonton Oilers stepping up for charity in local COVID-19 relief effort  Edmonton Sun
  
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• The Westin shows its heart every night during COVID-19 - Edmonton Journal

  08-04-2020 03:22
  
  The Westin shows its heart every night during COVID-19  Edmonton Journal
  
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• Four people evacuated after fire breaks out in Edmonton attic - CTV News Edmonton

  08-04-2020 03:15
  
  Four people evacuated after fire breaks out in Edmonton attic  CTV News Edmonton
  
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• Edmonton's hospitality sector calling on province for more help - CTV News Edmonton

  08-04-2020 03:15
  
  Edmonton's hospitality sector calling on province for more help  CTV News Edmonton
  
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• Alberta predicting 400 to 6,600 deaths from COVID 19 in months to come

  08-04-2020 02:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney says forecast models for the COVID-19 crisis in Alberta predict anywhere from 400 to 6,600 deaths in the months to come. Provincial affairs reporter Tom Vernon recaps the premier’s speech, which also addressed the dire economic consequences of the pandemic.
  
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• Table Top Café permanently closes 124 Street location due to COVID-19: ‘There’s just no way to make enough money’

  08-04-2020 02:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  "As a business that encourages people to leave their houses and touch communal things, it doesn't seem like that's going to be viable for quite a while," Table Top Café owner Brian Flowers said.
  
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• Alberta Premier Jason Kenney releases province’s COVID-19 models during broadcast address

  08-04-2020 02:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney released data modelling for the COVID-19 pandemic during an address to the province Tuesday.
  
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• Edmonton weather forecast: Tuesday, April 7, 2020

  08-04-2020 02:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Here’s Jesse Beyer’s Tuesday, April 7, 2020 evening weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.
  
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• ‘Probable’ Alberta COVID-19 model predicts 400-3,100 deaths: Kenney

  08-04-2020 02:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Under a probable scenario, COVID-19 could claim between 400 to 3,100 Albertans' lives by the end of summer, Premier Jason Kenney announced in a televised address to the province on Tuesday night.
  
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• COVID-19 could result in 400 to 3,100 deaths in Alberta, according to health officials’ ‘probable model’: Kenney

  08-04-2020 02:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Under a probable scenario, COVID-19 could claim between 400 to 3,100 Albertans' lives by the end of summer, Premier Jason Kenney announced in a televised address to the province on Tuesday night.
  
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• Global News at 5 Edmonton: April 7

  08-04-2020 02:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Tuesday, April 7, 2020 edition of Global News at 5 Edmonton with Gord Steinke.
  
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• Edmonton says its working with grocery stores to limit glove and mask litter

  08-04-2020 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  COVID-19 has led to more people taking wearing masks and gloves, but those items are now covering parking lots. Fletcher Kent has more on what the city is doing to curb this litter and health problem.
  
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