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• Cold front expected to freeze Alberta later this week

  07-01-2020 01:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  The weather across the province is expected to take a massive nosedive later in the week, according to Environment Canada, with the possibility of extreme cold alerts.
  
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• After 2 days of Edmonton infill debate, city committee sends decision to council

  11-02-2026 14:18 via globalnews.ca
  Over two days, 70 speakers voiced their concerns and it became clear the amendments Edmonton council is mulling are not popular with people on either side of the infill debate.
  
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• Northern Alberta residents face barriers to blood donation despite urgent need

  11-02-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca
  There is a need for blood after last month's winter storms cancelled drives across Canada, but donating blood isn't an option for residents in much of Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie, Alta.
  
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• Why some Canadian companies are turning their workers into owners instead of selling to the U.S.

  11-02-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  A new type of employee ownership comes at a time when the country is facing a wave of baby boomer entrepreneurs nearing retirement and an increased focus on strengthening the national economy in the face of a trade war with the U.S.
  
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• Arviat, Nunavut, chosen as main campus site for Canada's 1st Inuit university

  11-02-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Arviat, a small Nunavut community located along the western shore of Hudson Bay, will be the home of the first Inuit-led university in Canada's Arctic, CBC News has learned.
  
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• Cleanup underway after military fuel truck overturns on N.W.T. highway

  11-02-2026 05:52 via globalnews.ca
  Cleanup is underway after a fuel tanker filled with thousands of litres of diesel in a military convoy between Edmonton and Yellowknife overturned on a highway in the N.W.T.
  
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• A list of some school shootings that happened in Canada before Tumbler Ridge

  11-02-2026 05:35 via globalnews.ca
  A shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northern B.C.'s Peace region is the deadliest attack connected to a Canadian education facility in nearly 40 years.
  
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• Fireball lights up Alberta sky

  11-02-2026 03:36 via globalnews.ca
  A fireball lit up the sky over central Alberta on Tuesday morning, with people not just seeing it, but also hearing the roar and feeling the meteor rumble.
  
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• Edmonton rental market to subside as vacancies rise, according to national housing report

  11-02-2026 03:13 via cbc.ca
  A report from the CMHC expects rental supply increases and a slowdown in population growth will lessen competition among renters, instead shifting the focus toward landlords whose units remain empty.
  
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• Edmonton man sentenced to 7.5 years in Project Gaslight extortion case

  11-02-2026 02:46 via cbc.ca
  Manav Singh Heer, 20, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a series of extortion attempts targeting South Asian homebuilders in Edmonton.
  
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• Death of woman found in burning Edmonton home ruled a homicide

  11-02-2026 02:31 via cbc.ca
  The death of a woman found in a burning home in central Edmonton has been ruled a homicide, police said on Tuesday.
  
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• Calgary police seek shooting suspects related to South Asian extortion cases

  11-02-2026 01:32 via globalnews.ca
  Calgary police are asking help identifying a vehicle involved in a recent shooting believed linked to the ongoing extortion threats against the city's South Asian community.
  
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• Canadians wait for flights out of Cuba, aid struggling to get in amid U.S. energy blockade

  11-02-2026 01:29 via globalnews.ca
  Canadians in Cuba are waiting for flights home and humanitarian agencies are struggling to get aid in as an energy crisis worsens in the nation amid a U.S. oil blockade.
  
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• 'What we are experiencing is not humane' — Cubans struggle as U.S. chokes oil supply

  11-02-2026 00:49 via cbc.ca
  Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home.
  
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• In Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. chokes oil supply and tourists flee

  11-02-2026 00:49 via cbc.ca
  Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home.
  
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• Tumbler Ridge school shooting: 10 dead including shooter, 25 injured

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  At least nine people were killed in a shooting spree Tuesday afternoon that included a school in British Columbia's Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.
  
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• Tumbler Ridge B.C. school shooting: 9 dead, 27 injured

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP said there were "multiple victims" from a shooting at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where students attend Grades 7 through 12.
  
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• Tumbler Ridge B.C. school shooting: 10 dead including shooter, 27 injured

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  At least nine people were killed in a shooting spree Tuesday afternoon that included a school in British Columbia's Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.
  
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• School shooting reported in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., original suspect found dead

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say those in Tumbler Ridge should stay inside and shelter in place, lock their doors and refrain from leaving their home or businesses.
  
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• School shooting in Tumbler Ridge B.C., original suspect located deceased

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say those in Tumbler Ridge should stay inside and shelter in place, lock their doors and refrain from leaving their home or businesses.
  
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• School shooting in Tumbler Ridge B.C., original suspect found dead

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say those in Tumbler Ridge should stay inside and shelter in place, lock their doors and refrain from leaving their home or businesses.
  
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• ‘Multiple victims’ in Tumbler Ridge B.C. school shooting, police say

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say those in Tumbler Ridge should stay inside and shelter in place, lock their doors and refrain from leaving their home or businesses.
  
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• 9 dead, shooter dead, 25 injured in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. school shooting

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  At least nine people were killed in a shooting spree Tuesday afternoon that included a school in British Columbia's Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.
  
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• 6 dead, shooter dead, 25 injured in Tumbler Ridge B.C. school shooting

  11-02-2026 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say those in Tumbler Ridge should stay inside and shelter in place, lock their doors and refrain from leaving their home or businesses.
  
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• Volatile raw diamond prices, mine pause has N.W.T. mulling need to diversify economy

  10-02-2026 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Growing popularity of lab-grown diamonds has caused raw diamond prices to plummet in recent years. U.S. tariffs on India, where most are cut and polished, has also impacted miners.
  
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• New housing report reveals what Edmonton renters can expect to see

  10-02-2026 23:49 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation says slowing population growth and an influx of new rentals coming on the market will result in an increasing vacancy rate, but not necessarily lower rents.
  
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• First Nations’ permission needed for Alberta separation, AFN chief says

  10-02-2026 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Assembly of First Nations Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak again denounced the separatist movement in Alberta as "illegitimate" and "unconstitutional."
  
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• If question period is 'broken,' is anyone going to fix it?

  10-02-2026 23:05 via cbc.ca
  "Question period is broken," Liberal MP Corey Hogan told the House of Commons last week. But if question period — and other elements of Parliament — doesn't need to be the way it is, change still requires someone to actually do something.
  
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• Alberta premier warns ‘significant’ deficits to come, rules out tax hikes or big cuts

  10-02-2026 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  With the price of oil trading well below where the government of Alberta forecast it to be, Premier Danielle Smith warns that "significant" deficits are in store for the province.
  
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• Oral HIV self-test approved for sale in Canada

  10-02-2026 22:47 via cbc.ca
  People in Canada have a new, less invasive way to test for HIV at home, following Health Canada's approval of an oral self-test.
  
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