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• Bryan Adams

  23-02-2018 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  630 CHED welcomes Bryan Adams – The Ultimate Tour to Rogers Place June 8, 2018. Tickets on sale Friday, March 2nd at 10am.
  
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• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to announce investment in fighting wildfires

  17-02-2026 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and the minister of forestry and parks will be making an announcement Tuesday afternoon on improving the province's ability to fight wildfires.
  
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• Tumbler Ridge school shooting victim set to return home from Vancouver hospital

  17-02-2026 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  One of the surviving victims of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting will be heading home soon, but the other victim remains in serious condition at BC Children's Hospital.
  
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• Fee charged to hospital patients waiting for long-term care points to system bottleneck, some say

  17-02-2026 21:06 via cbc.ca
  Calgarian Joan MacTavish is frustrated and disappointed her 92-year-old father is subject to a daily fee while he's in hospital waiting for a long-term care space to open up. The fee isn't new. It's meant to offset hospital costs, but experts say it might not be the best tool to manage patient flow.
  
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• What is the Jay Treaty cited in First Nations travel advisories to the U.S.?

  17-02-2026 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  The Jay Treaty allows Indigenous to travel freely to the U.S. to live, work or travel, but some First Nations are urging caution due to the U.S. changes around immigration.
  
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• Build it here or buy it there? Canada’s defence plan meets Trump’s new arms agenda

  17-02-2026 18:30 via cbc.ca
  The Carney government formally released its long-awaited defence industrial strategy, which aims to boost domestic weapons manufacturing while reducing Canada’s heavy reliance on U.S. suppliers.
  
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• Prairies to see plummeting temperatures, heavy snow as winter returns

  17-02-2026 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada says parts of southern Saskatchewan are under an orange snowfall warning, with some areas expecting up to 35 centimetres of snow by Thursday morning.
  
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• Prairies experience plummeting temperatures, heavy snow as winter returns

  17-02-2026 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  The return of winter weather across the prairie provinces means much of the region is blanketed by cold, snowfall and blowing snow warnings for the next few days.
  
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• Provinces contend with fresh shocks ahead of 2026 budget season

  17-02-2026 15:13 via globalnews.ca
  A new analysis from Desjardins indicates some resilience to U.S. trade pressures and revisions to economic data have most provinces on better footing heading into budget season.
  
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• Canadian speed skating women capture gold for back-to-back Olympic titles in team pursuit

  17-02-2026 15:08 via cbc.ca
  Canada's Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Blondin successfully defended Olympic speed skating gold Tuesday, prevailing over the Dutch in women’s team pursuit in Milan.
  
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• Expanded restorative justice program in Fort McMurray praised for changing lives

  17-02-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  The restorative justice process challenges offenders to accept responsibility for their actions through meetings with their victims and achieving goals that improve their lives.
  
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• EPSB review of new school resource officer program largely positive

  17-02-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  The school resource officer (SRO) program has mostly garnered praise from school and education staff, after it returned to some Edmonton schools last year.
  
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• Alberta’s AI data centre boom unleashes ‘gold rush’ for electricity allotments

  17-02-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Last year, as AI data centre proponents competed for a portion of the limited 1,200 megawatts that would connect their projects to the provincial grid, one company secured 180 megawatts from the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) — then sold it to a buyer for $18 million.
  
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• Transport Canada documents raise concerns over forever chemicals as far back as 1984

  17-02-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Files obtained through access to information confirm Transport Canada was concerned about forever chemicals, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as far back as the 1980s.
  
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• Canadian immigration officers investigating hundreds identified by extortion task force

  17-02-2026 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  New statistics suggest Canadian border officers are playing an increasing role in combating the gangs that have spread fear in cities with large South Asian populations.
  
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• Paid out of pocket for a fender-bender? Fine, but the law says you have to tell your insurer

  17-02-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  For some reason, not a lot of people know that the law in Canada requires them to report a car crash to their insurer, experts told CBC. If they don't, drivers leave themselves exposed to personal injury lawsuits, voiding their insurance policies and significantly higher premiums in the future.
  
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• Canadian curlers are being accused of 'double-touching.' But what's the advantage?

  17-02-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The controversy over whether some Canadian curlers at the Winter Olympics have been guilty of "double-touching" the curling stone after its release has also raised a more significant issue: Does it make any difference?
  
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• Man dies after being found with injuries at shooting scene in north Edmonton: police

  17-02-2026 04:20 via cbc.ca
  Edmonton police are investigating the death of a man who was found injured at the scene of a shooting on the city’s north side on Monday afternoon.
  
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• 'Who cares what the past was?': Canada's women look for redemption against U.S. in women's hockey final

  17-02-2026 01:33 via cbc.ca
  Canada, which was worse than the U.S. in every possible way in a 5-0 loss in the preliminary round, has 72 hours to find the belief that Thursday’s women's hockey final will have a different result — that they can somehow beat an American team that’s younger, faster, meaner, stronger.
  
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• 'Who cares what the past was?': Canada looks for redemption against U.S. in women's hockey final

  17-02-2026 01:33 via cbc.ca
  Canada, which was worse than the U.S. in every possible way in a 5-0 loss in the preliminary round, has 72 hours to find the belief that Thursday’s women's hockey final will have a different result — that they can somehow beat an American team that’s younger, faster, meaner, stronger.
  
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• Tumbler Ridge plans for how to return students to education

  16-02-2026 22:25 via cbc.ca
  Almost one week after the fatal mass shooting at a high school and home in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., the local school board is focusing on how to respectfully get kids back to their education.
  
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• Get ready for return of winter in Alberta with heavy snowfall in forecast

  16-02-2026 21:03 via cbc.ca
  After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, temperatures are set to dip and snow is on the way in Alberta, according to Environment Canada.
  
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• Number of reports of people with weapons rises in Alberta after Tumbler Ridge shooting, say RCMP

  16-02-2026 20:29 via cbc.ca
  An RCMP spokesperson says that he can't say with certainty that the increase is connected with the shooting that left nine dead last Tuesday, but it is unusual and Mounties believe people have been more sensitive to the tragedy.
  
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• Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor known for Tender Mercies and The Godfather, dead at 95

  16-02-2026 19:42 via cbc.ca
  American actor Robert Duvall, known for his best-actor Oscar role in Tender Mercies and for appearing in classics like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, has died at 95.
  
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• Carney taps former head of public service to spearhead CUSMA negotiations

  16-02-2026 16:44 via cbc.ca
  Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen the former clerk of the Privy Council, Janice Charette, to head Canada's trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.
  
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• Changes to Alberta’s whistleblower act recommended again 5 years later

  16-02-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Alberta’s public interest commissioner is recommending changes to the province’s whistleblower act that the government didn’t act on after receiving the same recommendations during a review in 2021.
  
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• Caribbean workers who helped build Alberta’s oil industry honoured at Royal Alberta Museum

  16-02-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  An event at the Royal Alberta Museum recently celebrated the legacy and often overlooked contributions of Caribbean workers within Alberta's oil industry.
  
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• ‘Beyond horrific’ crash kills Calgary father, severely injures daughter in Edmonton

  16-02-2026 14:15 via globalnews.ca
  Strathcona County RCMP said two vehicles were stopped on the shoulder of Anthony Henday Drive where the drivers were attempting to fix a flat tire, when a third vehicle hit them.
  
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• ‘Beyond horrific’ crash kills Calgary father, severely injures daughter

  16-02-2026 14:15 via globalnews.ca
  Strathcona County RCMP said two vehicles were stopped on the shoulder of the road on Feb. 8. The drivers were attempting to fix a flat tire when a third vehicle crashed into them.
  
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• How Ryan Wedding’s ‘right-hand man’ turned on him and helped take him down

  16-02-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian named by U.S. prosecutors as Ryan Wedding's right-hand man played a key role in bringing down Wedding's purported drug ring, court records suggest. A review of court filings by CBC News points to Andrew Clark turning FBI informant after the murder of a previous key witness.
  
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