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• Victim’s father arrested as Leduc RCMP investigate man’s death

  18-03-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  A father has been arrested after his son's body was found at a rural property in Leduc County last week. 
  
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• Man sent to hospital in life threatening condition after southeast crash

  18-03-2018 21:14
  Police say drivers need to be aware of winter driving conditions in Calgary on Sunday as one man was sent to hospital after a serious crash early this morning. Emergency crews were called to the scene of the crash on 52 Street between 114 and 126 Avenue S.E. for reports of a single vehicle crash. “A single vehicle was traveling southbound on 52 Street between 114 Avenue and 126 Avenue and had a loss of control and collided with a light standard,” says Sergeant Becky Spohr with the CP
  
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• Inspections, training needed to prevent ammonia leaks at ice rinks: experts

  18-03-2018 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  A report on the issue comes months after the deadly ammonia leak in a Fernie arena that killed three people.
  
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• French Cirque du Soleil performer dies after fall at Florida show

  18-03-2018 19:16
  A 38-year-old Cirque du Soleil performer died after falling during a Saturday evening performance in Tampa, Fla., the Canadian entertainment company announced Sunday. The Montreal-based entertainment group said that French aerialist Yann Arnaud fell to the stage while performing an aerial straps number during a performance of the company's VOLTA show. He was taken to hospital where he later died from his injuries. The company's president described Arnaud as an experienced aerialist who was well-
  
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• Cirque du Soleil performer dies after fall at Florida show

  18-03-2018 19:16
  TAMPA, Fla. - A Cirque du Soleil performer has died after falling during a show in Tampa. The theatrical company announced on Twitter Sunday that Yann Arnaud fell Saturday night while performing an aerial straps number during the show VOLTA. Arnaud was taken to a hospital after the fall, where he later died. Cirque du Soleil cancelled its final two Tampa shows Sunday while the company and authorities investigate how the accident happened. The entertainment group's President Daniel Lamarre said,
  
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• Lethbridge police seek public’s help to identify suspect in assault

  18-03-2018 18:39
  Lethbridge police have released a composite sketch of a suspect they say was involved in an assault in the city’s north end last month. Police responded to a report of an assault on February 13 at about 4:15 p.m. at a home in the 1100 block of 14 Street N. Upon arrival, they found that the suspect involved had fled on foot from the scene and, despite a thorough search; officers were unable to locate him. The suspect is described as:white male early 20s approximately 173 cm tall weighing 59
  
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• Lethbridge Police Looking For Assault Suspect

  18-03-2018 18:36
  LPS have released a composite sketch of a suspect in a north side assault back in mid-February.
  
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• Driver involved in crash south of Calgary allegedly nabs taxi that stopped to help

  18-03-2018 18:17
  A man is facing charges after police say he stole a taxi cab that had stopped to help out after the suspect himself was involved in a crash with another vehicle near High River. RCMP says that on March 16, at about 6:10 a.m., they responded to a two-vehicle crash on 498 Avenue E. When officers arrived at the scene, they learned that one of the drivers involved in the crash had reportedly driven away in a taxi cab that had stopped to help the disabled drivers. Police were not able to track the su
  
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• Edmonton family continues ski patrol tradition at Marmot Basin

  18-03-2018 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  An Edmonton family has been creating amazing memories this winter by continuing a longstanding family tradition.
  
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• Local police looking to identify assault suspect with new composite drawing

  18-03-2018 17:19
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE – Lethbridge Police are seeking the public's help to identify a suspect involved in an assault in North Lethbridge after obtaining a composite drawing.
  Police responded to a report of an alleged assault with a weapon in the 1100 block of 14 Street N. on Feb. 13.
  The suspect, described as a white man in his early 20's, approximately 5'8", 130 lbs, with short buzzed hair, had fled the scene on foot and even though officers searched th
  
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• ‘Experience is departing:’ Alberta prosecutors worried as numbers dwindle

  18-03-2018 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  A provincial wage freeze and increased caseloads resulting from a Supreme Court of Canada ruling are making it difficult to recruit new prosecutors to fill Alberta's dwindling ranks, says an organization representing Crown lawyers.
  
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• 'Targeted' shooting outside Toronto bowling alley leaves 2 dead: police

  18-03-2018 17:06
  Police in Toronto are looking for three suspects after a man and a woman were killed in a shooting outside a Toronto bowling alley. Police say Thanh Tien Ngo, 32, and Ruma Amar, 29, were both shot outside the Playtime Bowl in North York at around 10 p.m. on Saturday night. “People started running and panicking,” one witness told CP24. “Someone screamed, saying: ‘Gunshots! Gunshots!’ and I just started running outside like everyone else.” Ngo was pronounced dea
  
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• Shooting outside Toronto bowling alley leaves 2 dead

  18-03-2018 17:06
  A man and a woman have been killed following a shooting outside a bowling alley in Toronto. Officers with the Toronto Police Service were called to the bowling alley, Playtime Bowl in North York, at around 10 p.m. on Saturday night following reports of between five and 10 gunshots fired outside the facility. Upon arrival, first responders found a man and woman suffering from gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead at the scene while the woman was rushed to hospital where she later died. &ldq
  
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• 'Innocent bystander' among 2 killed in Toronto bowling alley shooting

  18-03-2018 17:06
  Police in Toronto are looking for three suspects after a man who they say was targeted and a woman described as an innocent bystander were killed in a shooting outside a bowling alley. Police say Thanh Tien Ngo, 32, and Ruma Amar, 29, were both shot outside the Playtime Bowl in North York at around 10 p.m. on Saturday night. “People started running and panicking,” one witness told CP24. “Someone screamed, saying: ‘Gunshots! Gunshots!’ and I just started running outs
  
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• Trump elevates simmering Mueller, McCabe grievances to boil

  18-03-2018 15:53
  WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned the impartiality of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and raised doubts about whether a fired top FBI official kept personal memos outlining his interactions with Trump. Trump, in a series of tweets, elevated his simmering grievances to a boil against Mueller, whose team is examining Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice; onetime FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was dismissed Friday by t
  
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• A frustrated Trump lashes out at special counsel Mueller

  18-03-2018 15:53
  WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday took out his frustrations over the intensifying Russia investigation by lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller, signalling a possible shift away from a strategy of co-operating with a probe he believes is biased against him. In a series of weekend tweets naming Mueller for the first time, Trump criticized the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and raised fresh concerns about the objectivity and poli
  
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• Fire at Manila hotel and casino kills at least 3 workers

  18-03-2018 14:31
  MANILA, Philippines -- A fire engulfed a hotel and casino in the Philippine capital on Sunday, killing at least three employees, trapping two others and forcing the evacuation of more than 300 guests, some by helicopter, officials said. Police said it was unclear if the fire at the Manila Pavilion Hotel and Casino, which raged for hours, started in the casino on the lower floors or in an area of the hotel that was under renovation. TV footage showed dark grey smoke billowing from the first and s
  
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• Canadian Paralympic team picked up Olympic baton, capturing record 28 medals

  18-03-2018 13:12
  PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of -- On the night Canada's curlers lost a last-rock heartbreaker in the Paralympic semifinals, hockey player Billy Bridges was waiting up for them when they returned home to the athletes village. "Billy gave me a pat on the back and said 'You've got to go tomorrow and win that medal for us,' meaning the whole team Canada," said skip Mark Ideson, who led Canada to bronze. "And that really put things back in perspective for me. So (Saturday) we played for Canada." The
  
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• Bodies of 2 French skiers found after Swiss Alps avalanche

  18-03-2018 13:01
  BERLIN -- Swiss authorities say they've recovered the bodies of two French skiers killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps but two other skiers remain missing. Police from the Valais canton, or state, said the bodies of the two skiers, aged 20 and 25, were found buried under six metres of snow in in the Vallon d'Arbi area of southwestern Switzerland near the borders with France and Italy. A 32-year-old French citizen and a 57-year-old Swiss skier were still missing on Sunday. The avalanche hit a
  
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• Putin calls U.K. accusations over ex-spy poisoning 'nonsense'

  18-03-2018 12:37
  MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday dismissed British accusations of Russia's involvement in an ex-spy's poisoning as "nonsense," but added that Moscow is ready to co-operate with London in the investigation. In his first comments on the incident, Putin referred to the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter as a "tragedy," but added that if the British claim that they were poisoned by the Soviet-designed nerve agent were true, the victims would have been killed inst
  
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• Amid spy row, U.K. accuses Russia of stockpiling a nerve agent

  18-03-2018 12:37
  LONDON -- Britain's foreign minister said Sunday that he has evidence Russia has been stockpiling a nerve agent in violation of international law "very likely for the purposes of assassination." Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the trail of blame for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury "leads inexorably to the Kremlin." His comment came after a Russian envoy suggested the toxin used to poison the Skripals could have come
  
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• Boy, 14, charged with arson in January fire at Airdrie rec centre

  18-03-2018 03:38 via globalnews.ca
  A teenage boy from Airdrie is facing arson charges after a fire at a rec centre caused $29,000 in damages.
  
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• Youth charged in connection with arson at Airdrie’s Genesis Place

  18-03-2018 01:47
  Airdrie RCMP says that a 14-year-old boy from the community has been charged with setting a fire inside Genesis Place in January. Crews were called to the recreation centre on January 23 for reports of a fire inside a recycling bin inside the building. The blaze was put out, but the damage from the fire was estimated at approximately $29,000. Officials later determined that the fire was deliberately set, prompting RCMP to begin an investigation. On March 16, a youth from Airdrie was arrested and
  
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• Thousands of students flood Waterloo, Ont. street for St. Patrick's party

  18-03-2018 00:47
  With hoots, hollers, and chants of 'chug, chug, chug,' thousands of green-clad revellers descended on a Waterloo, Ont. street Saturday to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Amid a large police presence, the street in the university and tech town was thronged by noon with students swigging green-hued beer. Police worked to contain the crowd at the unsanctioned street party, shutting down Ezra Avenue and issuing ticket after ticket, and even making several arrests. At the party’s peak, par
  
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• City admits release of Olympic bid document was an error

  18-03-2018 00:22
  City officials say that a report about the 2026 Olympic Bid process, released to the public on Friday, was published by mistake. On Friday evening, city administrators released a copy of a report entitled ‘Olympic Bid Dialogue Stage Update’, containing details indicating that financial support from both the provincial and federal governments had been secured. The city says that that fact was wrong and staff is still working with both levels of government to secure the funding needed
  
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