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• Mother of Humboldt Broncos player killed in crash calls for crackdown on semis running stop signs

  29-01-2019 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  An emotional Andrea Joseph, whose son Jaxon was killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, says semis running stop signs continues to happen and it needs to stop.
  
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• WestJet awarded more than $21K from unruly passenger who forced flight's return to Calgary

  29-01-2019 23:40
  A 44-year-old U.K man who was removed from a WestJet flight after becoming disruptive has been ordered to reimburse the airline for the fuel used to bring him into police custody. On January 4, David Stephen Young was on a flight from Calgary to London, England when he was refused access to the washroom of the aircraft while the seatbelt light was activated. The 44-year-old forced his way into the lavatory and, after returning to his seat, became aggressive towards other passengers and the fligh
  
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• Eastern Alberta communities fear NDP’s oil production cap change will mean job losses

  29-01-2019 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  Workers in communities like Bonnyville, Lakeland County, Elk Point and Lloydminster are worried changes to Alberta's oil curtailment formula will cost as many as 1,000 people their jobs.
  
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• Man jailed for manslaughter in Calgary faces new murder charge in Bassano death

  29-01-2019 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  An Alberta man jailed for manslaughter 12 years ago is now facing a new murder charge related to a woman's death in Bassano.
  
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• First Significant Cold Snap Forecast For Southern Alberta

  29-01-2019 22:52
  
  
  It won't be anything like what folks are experiencing in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but it is going to get a lot colder in southern Alberta than it's been all winter.
  
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• Police seek suspect in sexual assault at southeast recreation centre

  29-01-2019 22:37
  Calgary police are looking for a suspect in connection to a sexual assault that is believed to have happened at Cardel Rec South last November. Police say a youth was watching a hockey game at the recreation centre, located at 333 Shawville Blvd. S.E., on November 18 between 6:03 and 6:48 p.m. when he was approached by a man. The man initiated a conversation and asked the youth if he would like to go sit down. The suspect then allegedly touched the youth inappropriately. A witness approached the
  
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• Mystery surrounds collection of soil monoliths recently donated to Lethbridge College - RealAgriculture

  29-01-2019 21:49
  Mystery surrounds collection of soil monoliths recently donated to Lethbridge College  RealAgricultureA collection of 110 soil monoliths dating back to the 1950s was recently donated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to Lethbridge College.
  
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• WHL confirms Kootenay Ice relocation to Winnipeg

  29-01-2019 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  After relocating to B.C. from Edmonton in 1998, Ice will soon be on the move again, this time to Manitoba.
  
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• RCMP appeal for new information on fire at Cochrane townhouse complex

  29-01-2019 21:25
  A fire that destroyed a townhouse complex that was under construction in the Fireside community of Cochrane in 2018 is still under investigation and RCMP are appealing to the public for any new information. Emergency crews were called to a structure fire on June 6, 2018 at about 2:18 a.m. for reports of a large fire. Two townhouses burned to the ground and another sustained significant damage. Police are still working to collect information from anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity o
  
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• “A second chance at life”- Blood Tribe ammonite prospector gains international following

  29-01-2019 21:15
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - If it's possible to run like a gazelle up a 300-foot shale hill at a 45-degree angle, that's what Billy Jack does as he quickly scales a coulee directly over the Oldman River– and runs to a location where he believes he may find some precious ammonite.
  10 years ago, the 44-year-old didn't know whether he would survive flesh-eating disease that nearly took his leg, let alone be able to hike for hours to find the fossils that
  
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• Alberta sees another record year of child abuse cases; 22% rise in 2018

  29-01-2019 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  The number of child abuse cases taken on by the Zebra Child Protection Unit spiked in 2018 — but experts say it's not necessarily a bad thing.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos crash: What the RCMP forensics team found

  29-01-2019 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP's forensics report from the Humboldt Broncos crash shows how the team's bus was torn apart after colliding with Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's truck.
  
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• Third Mountie who investigated 'Surrey six' gang murders sentenced in B.C. court

  29-01-2019 21:09
  VANCOUVER -- A third RCMP officer has been sentenced after pleading guilty to his conduct in connection with British Columbia's largest gang-related mass murder. Cpl. Danny Michaud was handed a three-month conditional sentence to be served in the community for failing to maintain law and order under the RCMP Act. His plea came hours after retired Mountie David Attew also admitted to failing to maintain law and order under the RCMP Act and was given a six-month conditional sentence to be served i
  
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• Fort McMurray work camp moratorium passes unanimously

  29-01-2019 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo city council has voted in favour of a moratorium on work camps within 75 kilometres of Fort McMurray.
  
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• No reason to believe Canadian detained in Macau tied to China row: Freeland

  29-01-2019 20:21
  OTTAWA -- Canada's foreign-affairs minister says the federal government is trying to get consular access to a Canadian man arrested in Macau over the weekend on fraud allegations. Chrystia Freeland says the government has no reason to believe that the 61-year-old's arrest is linked with the cases of two other men detained in China in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top Huawei Technologies executive. The South China Morning Post, citing local media, said the Canadian is accused of t
  
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• Decades old soil monolith collection gifted to Lethbridge College by the federal government - Lethbridge News Now

  29-01-2019 20:20
  Decades old soil monolith collection gifted to Lethbridge College by the federal government  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE - A donation more than 30 years in the making that officials at Lethbridge College believe will be an invaluable resource for years to come.
  
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• Decades old soil monolith collection gifted to Lethbridge College by the federal government

  29-01-2019 20:20
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE - A donation more than 30 years in the making that officials at Lethbridge College believe will be an invaluable resource for years to come.
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has donated a decades-old collection of 110 soil monoliths from across western Canada that had previously been located at AAFC's Lethbridge Research and Development Centre to the college.
  A monolith is a vertical cross-section of soil about one-metre long that shows
  
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• Canada’s wild weather: Flowers are blooming in the west and snow is pummeling the east

  29-01-2019 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  Flowers are blooming in Vancouver, Winnipeg is getting hit with a deep freeze and southern Ontario is blanketed in a layer of snow.
  
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• Student, bus driver remain in hospital after school bus rollover in southern Alberta

  29-01-2019 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  Two people remain in hospital Tuesday morning after a school bus rolled onto its side in southern Alberta on Monday.
  
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• Kootenay Ice relocate to Winnipeg at end of WHL season

  29-01-2019 19:55
  Officials with the Western Hockey League announced on Tuesday that the Kootenay Ice will be moving to Winnipeg at the end of the current WHL season. WHL Commissioner Ron Robison made the announcement from Cranbrook and will be in Winnipeg for another press conference on Tuesday afternoon. Robison said that attendance levels were not high enough to sustain a franchise in Cranbrook. “When you look at this market and the size of the market overall I think that was a consideration to really se
  
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• Nurmagomedov, McGregor suspended, fined for UFC 229 brawl

  29-01-2019 19:43
  LAS VEGAS -- UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was fined $500,000 and suspended for nine months for a brawl inside and outside the octagon after his fight with Conor McGregor at UFC 229. McGregor was fined $50,000 and suspended for six months. Nurmagomedov's suspension can be reduced by three months if he participates with Las Vegas police in an anti-bullying public service announcement, according to a settlement approved Tuesday by the Nevada Athletic Commission. The commission must
  
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• Polar bear named Blizzard dies at Winnipeg zoo

  29-01-2019 19:21
  WINNIPEG -- An orphaned polar bear rescued in northern Manitoba has died at a zoo in Winnipeg after being put under anaesthetic to investigate an apparent illness. The five-year-old bear named Blizzard died on Monday and director of veterinary services Chris Enright said they are still looking into what caused the death. "It is always sad when we lose one of our beloved animals at the zoo, but a loss under these circumstances is particularly challenging," Enright said Tuesday. "Blizzard was a be
  
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• Lethbridge College Receives Rare Soil Collection From Federal Government

  29-01-2019 19:15
  It's believed federal and provincial soil surveyors created the collection over a number of years back in the 1950's and 60's.
  
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• TransCanada hires RBC to help sell up to 75% stake in Coastal GasLink pipeline

  29-01-2019 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  TransCanada has hired RBC to help it sell as much as a 75 per cent stake in the Coastal GasLink pipeline project designed to supply natural gas from northeastern B.C. to the LNG Canada facility on the West Coast at Kitimat.
  
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• Semi-driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash had 70 regulation violations

  29-01-2019 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Jaskirat Singh Sidhu would have been suspended from driving on the day of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash if he had been stopped and inspected.
  
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• Mexico, Iraq expected to fill Venezuelan oil gap ahead of Canada, analysts say

  29-01-2019 18:56
  CALGARY -- A lack of export pipeline capacity means Canada will not be able to boost shipments to take advantage of U.S. sanctions against Venezuela's national oil company, analysts say. The sanctions announced Monday against PDVSA are designed to interrupt the flow of oil money to the government of President Nicolas Maduro, putting pressure on him to step aside and allow opposition leader Juan Guaido to fill in as interim president. Mexico and Iraq are instead most likely to benefit in the race
  
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• Lethbridge County updates Schedule of Fees bylaw for 2019 - Sunny South News

  29-01-2019 18:54
  Lethbridge County updates Schedule of Fees bylaw for 2019  Sunny South NewsBy Nikki Jamieson Sunny South News. Lethbridge County's newest Schedule of Fees bylaw features only small increases to landing fees at the Lethbridge ...
  
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• Woman with baby dies after falling down NYC subway stairs

  29-01-2019 18:48
  NEW YORK - A young mother has died after falling down stairs at a Manhattan subway station while holding her 1-year-old daughter. Malaysia Goodson, of Stamford, Connecticut, fell down the stairs at a midtown Manhattan station at around 8 p.m. Monday, police said. Goodson was unconscious when police arrived. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her child was unharmed. Police said it's unknown whether the child was in a stroller during the incident, as initially reported by
  
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• Plans in the Works for New Animal Control Facility in Taber

  29-01-2019 18:46
  A move by Taber Police to reach out to the community last year to try and find a solution to the town's aged animal control facility has sparked some positive results.
  
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• U.S. FBI finds no specific motive in Vegas shooting that killed 58

  29-01-2019 18:24
  LAS VEGAS -- The high-stakes gambler responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history sought notoriety in the attack but left his specific motive a mystery, the FBI said Tuesday as it concluded the investigation of the 2017 massacre that killed 58 country music fans. While the agency found no "single or clear motivating factor" to explain why Stephen Paddock opened fire from his suite in a high-rise casino hotel, Paddock may have been seeking to follow in his father's criminal
  
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• FBI finds no specific motive in Vegas shooting that killed 58

  29-01-2019 18:24
  LAS VEGAS -- The high-stakes gambler responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history sought notoriety in the attack but left his specific motive a mystery, the FBI said Tuesday as it concluded the investigation of the 2017 massacre that killed 58 country music fans. While the agency found no "single or clear motivating factor" to explain to explain why Stephen Paddock opened fire from his suite in a high-rise casino hotel, Paddock may have been seeking to follow in his father'
  
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• FBI finds no specific motive in Vegas shooting

  29-01-2019 18:24
  LAS VEGAS -- A high-stakes gambler who rained a hail of gunfire down on a crowd of country music fans, killing 58, took any specific motive for the 2017 attack to his grave, the FBI said Tuesday as it concluded the investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The agency found no "single or clear motivating factor" to explain why Stephen Paddock opened fire from his suite in a high-rise casino hotel. The 64-year-old, who acted alone, fatally shot himself as police closed
  
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• Airdrie RCMP investigate after man assaulted during early morning dispute

  29-01-2019 17:35
  A man was transported to hospital with serious injuries after an altercation broke out between two groups of people in Airdrie on Tuesday morning. Police were called to the corner of 8th Street and 1st Avenue at about 3:40 a.m. for reports of an aggravated assault. Two groups of males were involved in an altercation and one man was assaulted with a weapon. He was taken to hospital with serious, non-life threatening injuries. Police are investigating and are asking anyone with information about t
  
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• Blood Tribe Police Looking For Missing Man

  29-01-2019 17:34
  47 year old Louis Red Crow was last seen Monday and was reported missing by family members.
  
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• Lethbridge-East United Conservatives to Choose Candidate February 9th

  29-01-2019 17:30
  The UCP will have their candidate in the Lethbridge-East riding soon.
  
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• Renewed interest in case of man's death after eating days-old pasta

  29-01-2019 17:18
  The case of a 20-year-old man in Belgium who died after eating five-day-old pasta is gaining attention after a clinical professor in the U.S. highlighted the story on his popular YouTube page. The man who posted the video – who goes only by the name Bernard and claims on his channel to be an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Illinois – based it on a 2011 case study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. According to the case study, in 2008, a young man from
  
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• Sentencing hearing continues for semi-truck driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash

  29-01-2019 17:14 via globalnews.ca
  Sentencing continued Tuesday in Melfort, Sask., for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the semi-truck driver who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
  
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• Medicine Hat Man Charged in Recent Southern Alberta Homicide

  29-01-2019 16:40
  36 year old Chase Leland Hehr of Medicine Hat has since been charged with the second degree murder of 24 year old June Rose of Burnaby, B.C.
  
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• El Chapo tells judge he won't testify at U.S. trial

  29-01-2019 15:44
  NEW YORK -- Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told a judge Monday that he won't take the witness stand in his own defence at his U.S. drug-trafficking trial, ending speculation that he might go for broke and build on a notorious reputation already cemented by the sprawling government case against him. "Your honour, me and my attorneys have spoken about this . and I won't testify," Guzman said through a Spanish interpreter in a rare instance of him standing up and speaking in court. The
  
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• Defence case at El Chapo trial clocks in at 30 minutes

  29-01-2019 15:44
  NEW YORK -- After a prosecution that spanned 11 weeks and had its share of bombshells, the defence case at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman clocked in on Tuesday at a mere 30 minutes. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman called one witness and entered one document into evidence before resting the defence's case. The jury was sent home for the day with closing arguments set to begin on Wednesday. Guzman could face life in prison if convicted of drug and murder conspiracy charges
  
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• Man dies from injuries sustained in crash on northeast street

  29-01-2019 15:16
  A man who was seriously injured in a crash in the city’s northeast on Monday evening has died in hospital and police are working to determine if speed was a factor in the crash. Emergency crews were called to a crash on 36 Street and Sunridge Way N.E. at about 10:15 p.m. Police say a 20-year-old man was driving a 2009 BMW eastbound on Sunridge Way when he lost control. The vehicle hit a concrete barrier then travelled across a concrete island and smashed into the barrier that separates 36
  
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• Four injured in crash on northeast street

  29-01-2019 15:16
  Police are investigating a crash that sent four people to hospital on Monday evening. Emergency crews were called to a crash on 36 Street and Sunridge Way N.E. at about 10:20 p.m. EMS took one man to Foothills Medical Centre in critical condition. Another man was transported to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries and two others suffered minor injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
  
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• Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to 8 counts of murder

  29-01-2019 14:59
  WARNING: Some of the details below may be disturbing to readers TORONTO -- A serial killer who preyed on men from Toronto's gay village has pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder. Bruce McArthur, who had been set to stand trial next year, entered the guilty plea during a hearing in a Toronto courtroom. The 67-year-old self-employed landscaper was arrested in January 2018.Scroll down or click here to follow our blog for live updates from the courtroom Read the brief statement of fa
  
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• Calgary police resolve standoff at residence in city’s northeast

  29-01-2019 14:55
  Calgary police were called to the city’s northeast on Monday evening after a man barricaded himself inside a home in the Marlborough Park area. Police say they responded to a report about a man with a gun at a home in the 5600 block of Maidstone Crescent N.E. at about 11:00 p.m. Officers contained the residence while they worked to resolve the situation. A man in his 50s came out of the home at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and was taken into custody. There was no one else inside the residence a
  
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• Record-breaking cold shuts down schools in the Midwest

  29-01-2019 14:50
  MILWAUKEE -- Hundreds of schools and several large universities closed their campuses Tuesday as temperatures plummeted across the Midwest, with forecasters warning that the frigid weather will get worse and could be life-threatening. The extreme cold and record-breaking temperatures are crawling into a swath of states spanning from North Dakota to Missouri and into Ohio after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region earlier this week. Arctic air early Tuesday dropped temperatures in the Dakotas
  
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• Record-breaking cold coming to the U.S. Midwest

  29-01-2019 14:50
  MILWAUKEE -- Extreme cold and record-breaking temperatures are crawling into parts of the Midwest after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region, and forecasters warn that the frigid weather could be life-threatening. Minneapolis Public Schools officials have cancelled classes through Wednesday, when the region is expected to experience frigidly low temperatures not seen in a quarter century. Hundreds of Michigan schools were closed Tuesday, including in Detroit, while Chicago Public Schools canc
  
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• Apple to fix FaceTime bug that allows eavesdropping

  29-01-2019 12:43
  Apple has made the group chat function in FaceTime unavailable after users said there was a bug that could allow callers to activate another user's microphone remotely. The bug was demonstrated through videos online and reported on this week by tech blogs. Reports say the bug in the video chat app could allow an iPhone user calling another iPhone through Group Facetime to hear the audio from the other handset -- even if the receiver did not accept the call. "We're aware of this issue and we have
  
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• Feds to offer $114M in new money to provinces, cities for asylum seeker housing

  29-01-2019 10:53
  OTTAWA -- The federal government is planning to spend an additional $114.7 million to compensate provinces and municipalities for temporary housing costs for asylum seekers. The money is part of $2.5 billion in new spending plans tabled late Monday as part of the government's supplementary estimates. The financial document says the influx of irregular migrants entering Canada has increased pressure on provinces to provide shelter and social services. The $114.7 million in new funding will be use
  
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• U.K.'s Theresa May seeks changes to Brexit deal

  29-01-2019 10:42
  LONDON -- Seeking to break Britain's Brexit deadlock, Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday she plans to ask the European Union to change its divorce deal with the U.K. by altering an Irish border guarantee that is opposed by many British lawmakers. EU leaders have ruled out any renegotiation on the Brexit deal, but May urged Parliament to give her a mandate by backing a call for the border measure to be replaced by unspecified "alternative arrangements." "Today we have the chance to show the
  
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• Wife of Humboldt Broncos coach ready to forgive

  29-01-2019 10:29
  MELFORT, Sask. -- As more families stood in court Tuesday to share stories of their unending grief over the dead and the injured in the Humboldt Broncos crash, there was talk of forgiveness but also of incredible anger. Christina Haugan spoke directly to Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the truck driver who blew through a stop sign in rural Saskatchewan last April, and told him she holds no ill will.Click to read the complete agreed statement of facts RCMP forensic collision report in the Humboldt bus cras
  
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