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• Nothing good happens after midnight — unless it’s Edmonton Fringe

  12-08-2026 17:29 via cbc.ca
  
  How a midnight variety show inside a curling club became a fixture of North America’s largest Fringe festival.
  
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• Edmonton-based indie game studio latest to take blockbuster-making skills and get 'pretty risky'

  14-08-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Edmonton-based Studio Reset was founded by developers with years of experience working at studios like Electronic Arts-owned Bioware. As companies with billion-dollar budgets become more risk averse chasing the next big hit, it could be the best way for developers to flex their creative muscles.
  
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• Lions top Stampeders 30-26 for third straight win

  14-08-2026 06:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  The B.C. Lions downed the Calgary Stampeders 30-26 for their third straight victory Thursday.
  
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• 12 international students at Calgary protest referred to CBSA office after status check

  14-08-2026 03:28 via cbc.ca
  
  A dozen people who took part in a weeks-long international student protest in northeast Calgary have been flagged as "being possibly inadmissible" and, according to an immigration lawyer, could be forced to leave Canada.
  
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• Alberta's government to study ability of province's water supply to support population, economic growth

  14-08-2026 02:22 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta's government says it's looking to do a study on the long-term security of the province's water supply as it stares down a challenge with a water-rich north and a demand-heavy south.
  
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• Preston Manning co-chairing virtual public forum on grievances with Ottawa ahead of Alberta referendum

  14-08-2026 02:15 via cbc.ca
  
  Preston Manning is stepping into the fray ahead of Alberta's fall referendum by headlining a public forum tackling Western Canada's long-standing grievances with Ottawa.
  
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• Federal government, Edmonton community groups talk downtown safety

  14-08-2026 01:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Secretary of State for Combatting Crime Ruby Sahota addressed an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce event on Thursday, with the discussion including talk on downtown safety.
  
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• Driver behind fatal 2025 Leduc County drunk driving crash pleads guilty

  13-08-2026 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  The driver behind the wheel of a SUV that crashed head-on into a car carrying a Alberta woman and her son plead guilty to impaired driving causing their deaths Thursday.
  
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• Environment Canada issues tornado watch for parts of eastern Alberta

  13-08-2026 21:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Environment Canada says conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may produce a tornado in eastern Alberta. The agency said funnel clouds in eastern Alberta have been reported to be very close to the ground.
  
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• 69-year-old Edmonton man dead following Parkland collision

  13-08-2026 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parkland RCMP are still investigating the cause of a crash between a motorcycle and pickup truck on Highway 627 that resulted in the death of the motorcyclist.
  
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• Okanagan wildfires hurting tourism in B.C. towns hundreds of kilometres away

  13-08-2026 20:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Wildfires burning hundreds of kilometres away are affecting tourism in B.C.’s Columbia Valley, with some visitors cancelling or reconsidering trips. Local tourism officials say the region remains open and largely unaffected by the fires themselves.
  
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• 21-year-old woman killed in Strathcona County rollover

  13-08-2026 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  An early-morning rollover Thursday roughly 20 kilometres east of Sherwood Park involving four young people has left a 21-year-old woman dead.
  
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• LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting again after Canada displeased with latest tariff offer

  13-08-2026 16:22 via cbc.ca
  
  Canadian trade officials are meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington once again, as both sides hustle to lock down a crucial trade deal ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's pressing tariff deadline.
  
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• Carney, Trump to be given 'options' following latest trade talks, says U.S. rep

  13-08-2026 16:22 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said both U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney will now be given "options" following trade talks between Canadian and U.S. trade officials on Thursday.
  
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• Councillor seeks end-to-end review of signal timing issues on Valley Line LRT

  13-08-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  With residents raising myriad safety concerns about issues with signal timing on the Valley Line LRT, a city councillor is hoping a comprehensive review will help find some solutions.
  
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• Why does a cemetery in a Rocky Mountain ghost town have a new landline?

  13-08-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  At Mountain Park Cemetery in Alberta's foothills, a one-way rotary phone connects the living to the dead through the wind. The cemetery is the last thing left of the old mining town, telling the stories of frontier hardship through the many restored gravestones that lie there.
  
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• City of Edmonton offers incentives to encourage transit-oriented development

  13-08-2026 13:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  The proposed Infill Infrastructure Program would incentivize building residential units along priority growth areas identified by the city.
  
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• Alberta’s Progressive Tories nominate 1st candidate, eye upcoming byelection

  13-08-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta’s fledgling Progressive Tory Party has nominated its first candidate and is looking to run someone in the upcoming byelection in Calgary-Shaw.
  
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• 10 Canadian youths died from injuries during e-scooter, e-bike use in 2025: report

  13-08-2026 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Doctors say the provinces and territories have a "patchwork" of rules surrounding what age youth can use the devices, but injuries and deaths are happening to youth of all ages.
  
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• The new science of alcohol: why recent guidance says more than 2 drinks per week is risky

  13-08-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Follow Anthony Morgan’s journey as he sets out to learn more about the risks of moderate alcohol use
  
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• 'Exponential rise': Canadian pediatricians document severe e-scooter injuries, deaths in children, teens

  13-08-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  From skull fractures to ICU admissions, pediatric specialists across Canada say severe e-scooter trauma in kids is becoming routine — and current rules are failing to protect them.
  
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• Babies and toddlers are sweltering in some daycares. Should there be mandatory AC?

  13-08-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Days and daycares are getting hotter. And a growing number of parents, educators, and health and legal advocates are lobbying formaximum indoor temperature at daycares, likely 26 C, akin to standards adopted for long-term care facilities in Ontario.
  
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• Judge cites legal notice issue, dismisses First Nation’s challenge against Alberta’s oilsands cleanup program

  13-08-2026 03:36 via cbc.ca
  
  Justice Shannon Davis of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta said he was dismissing the application for a review because the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation did not serve legal notice to all parties considered directly affected within the required six-month window.
  
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• Parks Canada finding success in reviving threatened fish species in Banff

  13-08-2026 01:50 via cbc.ca
  
  After more than a decade of work, the federal agency said westslope cutthroat trout are beginning to spawn naturally and repopulate Hidden Lake, close to Lake Louise.
  
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• Massive, slow-moving load may cause central Alberta traffic delays

  13-08-2026 01:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  The super-heavy de-ethanizer, which is used in natural gas processing, will make its way through central Alberta for the rest of the week at a maximum speed of 30 km/h.
  
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• Pumpkin problems: Alberta’s wet summer affecting annual crop

  13-08-2026 00:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Pumpkin patch owners in northern Alberta are looking at unprecedented options, like charging admission, or shipping in pumpkins, as the wet summer wreaks havoc on their crops.
  
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• Calgary Stampeders aim to make hay at home

  13-08-2026 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Calgary Stampeders and B.C. Lions both sought more traction in the CFL's West Division heading into the second half of their seasons.
  
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• Woman behind petition to oust U.S ambassador says response is 'beyond what I expected'

  12-08-2026 23:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Tens of thousands of Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country. The woman behind the petition says it's grown beyond her expectations.
  
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• 'We have serious concerns,’ northern Alberta chief says after hosting community meeting on Wonder Valley

  12-08-2026 22:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation leaders and legal council presented to band members in their northern Alberta community on what they know about the proposed Wonder Valley AI data centre campus that is being backed by celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary in their traditional territory.
  
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• Alberta RCMP officers set to switch to new uniforms this week

  12-08-2026 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The new navy blue uniforms will begin to be worn by front-line officers starting on Aug. 15. Some officers may continue wearing the current grey uniforms for some time, RCMP say.
  
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