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  10-10-2023 15:30 via news.google.com
  
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• 20.2% property tax increase required if Calgary funds all 2027 budget requests

  03-09-2026 01:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The figures were included in a number of confidential, preliminary budget documents obtained by Global News after being presented to Calgary city council earlier this summer.
  
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• Republicans back Trump in his trade war with Canada

  03-09-2026 00:14 via cbc.ca
  Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney's government for walking away from negotiations.
  
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• Sentencing underway for dog owner found guilty in fatal attack of 11-year-old Kache Grist

  02-09-2026 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Crystal MacDonald's two cane corsos fatally attacked 11-year-old Kache Grist at her home in south Edmonton’s Summerside neighbourhood in April 2024.
  
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• Apology sanction struck for Red Deer school trustee who compared Pride to Nazism

  02-09-2026 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  The issue erupted in the summer of 2023 and led Monique LaGrange to resign from the board of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools after fellow members voted to disqualify her.
  
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• Argos, Ticats meet in pivotal Labour Day contest

  02-09-2026 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  There's much more on the line for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts than just Labour Day bragging rights.
  
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• Weapons detection system installed at University of Alberta Hospital emergency department

  02-09-2026 22:02 via cbc.ca
  
  The University of Alberta Hospital emergency department will screen for weapons after the system was put in place at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in May following a stabbing.
  
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• Two more B.C. Conservatives quit caucus citing ‘Alberta separatist’ hirings by Findlay

  02-09-2026 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  'I remain a conservative. My principles have not changed,' MLA Donegal Wilson said. 'What has changed is my confidence in Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s leadership.'
  
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• Two more B.C. Conservative quit caucus cites ‘Alberta separatist’ hirings by Findlay

  02-09-2026 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  'I remain a conservative. My principles have not changed,' MLA Donegal Wilson said. 'What has changed is my confidence in Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s leadership.'
  
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• B.C. Conservative Donegal Wilson quits caucus, cites ‘Alberta separatist’ hirings by Findlay

  02-09-2026 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  'I remain a conservative. My principles have not changed,' MLA Donegal Wilson said. 'What has changed is my confidence in Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s leadership.'
  
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• Aurora Cannabis urges shareholders to reject hostile takeover offer by Curaleaf

  02-09-2026 20:05 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton-based Aurora Cannabis is urging shareholders to refuse a hostile takeover bid by Curaleaf. Aurora says it is debt-free with $149 million in cash while the rival cannabis company is over $1 billion in debt.
  
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• Doctors, liver specialist team up to better fight hepatitis in Alberta

  02-09-2026 20:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Recent changes to the way doctors test for and manage hepatitis patients in Alberta is allowing them to find and treat more cases and target a lesser known but more aggressive form of the disease.
  
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• Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable

  02-09-2026 17:58 via cbc.ca
  
  In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the world must now figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety.
  
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• Ottawa set to extend the pause on federal fuel excise tax: source

  02-09-2026 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  A planned renewal of the federal excise tax on fuel that was to kick in after Labour Day will be paused, Canada's finance minister is to announce Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Ottawa extends the pause on federal fuel excise tax to 2027

  02-09-2026 15:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  A planned renewal of the federal excise tax on fuel that was to kick in after Labour Day will be paused, Canada's finance minister is to announce Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Teachers, students file new wave of lawsuits against OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting

  02-09-2026 15:13 via cbc.ca
  
  New legal filings describe the horror students and teachers experienced on Feb. 10 and include new details of OpenAI's alleged negligence in preventing the shooting.
  
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• 19-year-old man charged in $100K downtown Edmonton vandalism spree involving funicular

  02-09-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton police say a 19-year-old man has been charged with seven counts of mischief over $5,000 after a downtown vandalism spree last month caused about $100,000 in damage.
  
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• Edmonton woman says she was ‘unpersoned’ by church after Orthodox clergyman charged with sexual assault

  02-09-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A member of the clergy with an Orthodox church in Edmonton has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman more than two decades ago, and the complainant in the case says she was ostracized from the church after reporting the alleged crime.
  
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• Andrew Brown returns home as new host of CBC Radio's Alberta at Noon

  02-09-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After filling in as a host across CBC Calgary radio and TV programming, and spending three years as the full-time host of CBC Radio's morning show in London, Ont., Brown will move into a full-time role on Alberta's only province-wide call-in radio show, beginning Wednesday.
  
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• Canada gave contracts to Iran VP’s son while investigating role in regime missile program

  02-09-2026 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The RCMP and Canadian military were among the agencies that hired companies run by Edmonton resident 'Sal Ghafouri,' a Global News investigation has found.
  
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• The U.S. could soon control 20% of Venezuela's oil reserves. Canada's oilpatch isn't worried

  02-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump is continuing his pursuit of Venezuela's oil jackpot, announcing a new deal aimed at boosting production in the South American country. And while Trump is flauntingthe potential controlling stake in a portion of Venezuela's oil reserves as a warning to Canada, experts say there is little cause for concern in Western Canada.
  
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• The U.S. could control 20% of Venezuela's oil reserves. Canada's oilpatch isn't worried

  02-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S President Donald Trump is continuing his pursuit of Venezuela's oil jackpot, announcing a new deal aimed at boosting production in the South American country. And while Trump is flauntingthe potential controlling stake in a portion of Venezuela's oil reserves as a warning to Canada, experts say there is little cause for concern in Western Canada.
  
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• The battle that made Canada bleed: Operation Medusa, 20 years later

  02-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It has been 20 years since Canadian soldiers walked into a Taliban killing ground west of Kandahar. Operation Medusa became Canada’s largest battle since Korea — a brutal test against a disciplined, entrenched enemy. Canada prevailed, but at a terrible cost, in a fight that changed the Afghan war and those who survived it.
  
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• Alberta Motor Association student patrollers return to province’s crosswalks

  02-09-2026 04:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Classes are back in Lethbridge, Alta., and that means the Alberta Motor Association's student patrollers are once again holding their stop signs.
  
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• Smith sees no threat to Alberta from U.S.-Venezuela oil deal, renews pipeline push

  02-09-2026 04:02 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Danielle Smith said on Tuesday that the oilsands have infrastructure and logistical advantages over Venezuela, which the International Energy Agency says is currently producing roughly 1.1 million barrels of oil per day. Alberta produces about five million barrels a day, she said.
  
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• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Tennessee trip isn't sending wrong message amid trade war

  02-09-2026 02:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Premier Danielle Smith defended her upcoming personal trip to the United States when asked if it was sending the wrong message amid an active trade war with Canada's southern neighbours.
  
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• Premier says mistake fixed after First Nations removed from Alberta Day statement

  02-09-2026 01:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Within an hour of sending an Alberta Day statement on Tuesday, the government sent an updated version removing the sentence including Indigenous Peoples from its English version.
  
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• Calgary man charged with running $164M Ponzi scheme involving more than 1,000 victims

  02-09-2026 01:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Calgary man is accused of stealing investment funds from more than 1,000 people in an alleged $164-million fraud and money laundering Ponzi scheme over the course of four years.
  
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• Reference to Indigenous peoples removed from Premier Smith's Alberta Day statement 'in error'

  02-09-2026 01:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An updated version of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's statement commemorating the province's 121st birthday was issued with the original statement's reference to Indigenous peoples removed.
  
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• Danielle Smith says Tennessee trip isn’t sending wrong message during trade war

  02-09-2026 00:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Danielle Smith says she believes in diplomacy and it's her job to work with officials of all types to remind them of the importance of the relationship between the two countries.
  
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